Kentucky Whitetail Hunting
07-11-2013, 06:01 PM
#1
Typical Buck
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Kentucky Whitetail Hunting
Has anyone hunted the area around Lake Barkly State Park in Western Kentucky. If so whats your thoughts on this area. Me and a couple buddies are looking at hunting this area this fall around opening weekend of fire arm season (November 8th). I have heard that's around the peak rut for this area. Any insite will be greatly welcomed.
07-16-2013, 05:11 AM
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Spike
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Location: Payneville, KY
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Has anyone hunted the area around Lake Barkly State Park in Western Kentucky. If so whats your thoughts on this area. Me and a couple buddies are looking at hunting this area this fall around opening weekend of fire arm season (November 8th). I have heard that's around the peak rut for this area. Any insite will be greatly welcomed.
Here is the KY Fish and Wildlife website.
http://www.kdfwr.state.ky.us/
Good luck.
07-16-2013, 05:17 PM
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Typical Buck
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Be sure and check for any antler regulations. Wouldn't want visitors to get into trouble.
Here is the KY Fish and Wildlife website.
http://www.kdfwr.state.ky.us/
Good luck.
Here is the KY Fish and Wildlife website.
http://www.kdfwr.state.ky.us/
Good luck.
07-17-2013, 07:56 AM
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Typical Buck
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Well we have been lucky enough to take several good bucks over the last several years so we just want shoot anything under 130s. Its not just about the kill but about the experience and enjoying the great outdoors that we have been blessed with. With that said there was a time that if it was legal it was down in my earlier hunting years and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. Its just that I m now older and just don't enjoy dragging them out of the woods quite as much. Now I still take 2 or 3 doe's a year with my bow for the freezer but I like to just watch the young bucks grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
07-28-2013, 03:35 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Kentucky
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That region (see also Land Between the Lakes [which has a separate private hunt] and Fort Campbell military base [also a separate hunt]) has a very high potential for P&Y+ size bucks...
This is the area that Knight and Hale (Ultimate Hunting) uses as a home-base...
Many of the Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) in this region have 15"-spread limits on antlered deer (info available in the hunting guide...Google KY Fish Wildlife)...
I have had mixed results in western KY (mainly on the very large Peabody WMA) so I tend to stick to my home areas of central KY and south-eastern KY...
This is the area that Knight and Hale (Ultimate Hunting) uses as a home-base...
Many of the Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) in this region have 15"-spread limits on antlered deer (info available in the hunting guide...Google KY Fish Wildlife)...
I have had mixed results in western KY (mainly on the very large Peabody WMA) so I tend to stick to my home areas of central KY and south-eastern KY...
