Been hunting w.v. for about 20 years, maybe more. Pretty bad year for us. Hardly heard any shooting, even far off. Most of the deer I saw were really tiny. Was it a bad winter there last year?
It was a rough winter but not bad enough to hurt them, horns were smaller than normal, but deer were there, just so much mast crop they were scattered out. The bait hunters had it tough this year.
RR
did read that the deer kill was down 30%, some was caused by the liberal bag limits from the past, and some from the deer just being scattered from the abundance of acorns.
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Last edited by Ridge Runner; 01-09-2011 at 02:31 PM.
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The weather sucked for rifle this season too.
-Jake
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I'm going with missing the rut for firearms, acorns EVERYWHERE, 70*weather, and a bad moon phase, the deer had absolutely no reason to move in the daytime, none. Last year's winter did take some deer out though, no doubt about it, but I only stumbled across one carcass.
I only found 1 dead deer this spring...but it was a tough winter last year.
I think the rut being so darn early was a killer this year. I saw one of the hardest ruts I've seen in years in mid-late October. It looked like mid November with all the chasing, fighting and breeding I saw in October.
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