Originally Posted by
bronko22000
The deer are finally coming back to the area around our camp. We used to hunt bear and deer up there but the deer hunting got so bad that we didn't even bother. 5 or 6 guys hunting bear the entire season and we would be lucky to see a handful of deer. We actually saw more bear than deer!
That's not really a big surprise.I'm not familiar with all of Clinton county but the areas that I've seen in the sproul state forest have much better bear habitat than deer habitat.They have over 1k doe tagged in the Sproul SF for a doe mortality study.Less than 8% are being killed by hunters.That's nowhere near enough to impact the deer herd.The Sproul state forest is some vast rugged country.I can tell you for a fact that I wouldn't be willing to haul a doe out of some of those areas.