Unless something really changes over the next 3 weeks there’s gonna be quite a few counties see a 25-40% reduction in the number of does killed this year versus last…..Counties like Blount, Marshall, Franklin, Madison, Jackson, Jefferson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Marion, Randolph, St. Clair and others. Mainly your northern counties...Colbert is even sitting at 50% right now…..What do the Aldeer experts attribute this decrease to?? Are people just shooting less does in these areas??
May need to start going 1 buck 1 doe like in other states and additional bucks/does are an additional permit, with a small fee of course.
The private I hunt in Blount county seems to have more does than ever. Me and some friends like to hunt refuges in Jackson county and we have noticed a decline the past couple years. My friend talked to farmer that owned land that joined some of the refuge and he said he had a permit and killed over 20 does out of his field this summer. Went from deer everywhere to shucks
Geez that's actually pretty frustrating as if the public land in that area wasn't already tough enough to hunt.
Maybe they should just integrate the farm into the refuge and have a special opportunity hunt with more doe days in that block.
