Originally Posted by Windwalker7

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!


I will state for the record, there is a lack of deer.

Just because I killed 3 doesn't mean there isn't a lack of deer.

When I hunt, I hunt hard. I leave the vehicle before first light and don't come back till dark. I spend the entire day in the woods unless I have an appointment to be somewhere.

I'd like to think that after hunting for over 30 yeras I learn a little about how to put a deer on the ground.

I've hunted several days from dawn til dusk without seeing a deer. Hunted a week and a half without seeing a doe.

And to clue you in, I'm laid off and had more time to hunt this year than anytime in the past. Think that had anything to do with it?

I hunt in 2A. One farm in Greene Co. I had to myself all of archery season and only shared with one other guy during rifle season. I'm hunting der that have absolutely no pressure and still having trouble.

This property had been open to the public in years past. The land owner himself decided to post his land because he said there weren't many deer. He let me and the other guy hunt.

I hunt one side of the road and the other guy hunts the other side. Again, no pressure!

There is a big deline in the deer population. Some of it brought about by EHD a couple years ago but much of it hunting too. This land was formerly in a co op type program with the PGC. When the PGC came out to his place a couple years ago he sorta got in an arguement with them over the EHD. He ask if they were going to shorten the season or anything because of all of the dead deer laying around. They said, "No!" He then said he would have to take matters into his own hands to prevent the deer being wiped out. He posted his land! He doesn't hunt but likes deer meat. I usually give him one, thus the reason I get permission.

My bow kill was on another piece of property in western Fayette Co. Private ground also. Limited hunting pressure.


I use to spend alot of time hunting in and around Ryerson State Park in Western Greene Co. I've killed lots of deer there.

Go there today and I don't even find deer sign. I use to hunt around some white oaks. Went there this year and there were white oak acorns all over the ground with no sign of deer eating them. And yes I know the difference between red and white oak.

It was wierd seeing all those acorns and no deer. Most of the trails were all grown in with no tracks.

Areas that always held bucks lacked any rubs.

Yes, there are still deer there but it is getting worse every year.