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Onto to why the numbers are what they are in the southern and western portions of the state…..

So now as we move south in the state we get out of the areas where hardwoods have such an influence and into the more pine plantation dominated landscape…….The harvest is much more consistent in the southern portion of the state. However, for many of the southeastern counties it has been a consistent climb upward in harvest since baiting was legalized……Last year was the first season where the upward climb finally crashed back down…..So we are now on the backside of that crash this season and looking at how harvest has responded.

This southeastern quadrant is the area where I believe the new 2 doe rule has had an impact this season and a good portion of it has probably come through the Florida boys taking advantage of the new rule on their late season hunts that they come in for……If you noticed its jumped a lot right here at the end….and unlike the northern half of the state the southeastern quadrant had more “opportunities” that still existed to use the new rule because of the deer still coming to the corn the same way instead of having the big acorn influence…..In many of those southeastern counties what you’re seeing is just a further thinning of the herd……It just added another secondary peak to the trend line on our graph to match the one from two seasons ago.....This is where those 10-20% increases are coming from