Thread: 2011-2012 season

THIS FOR ALL YOU HUNTERS OUT THERE!!
Summer has come and soon it will be gone
The temperatures are cooler at dusk and at dawn
The crops are high, the foliage is green.
But a change in the season, will soon be seen

For some it’s a sad time, for they know what’s ahead
School days, and winter, a time that most dread
But there’s a certain group out there, whose anticipation grows
A special brotherhood of hunters, who choose to use bows.

We’ve practiced our craft, our groups are now tight
Our arrows with broadheads, now steady in flight
We know in our hearts, we owe our quarry this
There’s some things more costly, than merely a miss

We will sit up in trees, in blinds and in brush
Waiting for days, for that split second rush
We’ll go when it’s rainy or snowy or cold
Hoping today, the plan will unfold

There are many outsiders, who don’t understand
But it’s this that completes me, what makes me a man
We’ll leave our loved one’s, family and our friends
We return to them rejuvenated, our souls have been cleansed

Maybe, we are friends, maybe we’ve met
Perhaps we’ve only talked, on the internet
But we go to the woods, together each time
I’m up in your stand and you’re with me in mine

Our worlds are different, some of our views don’t agree
But we are more alike, than different, and that is plain to see
Our passions the same, our success matters not
We pursue this the same, with all that we got.

Be our bows recurve or long, compound or cross
Bowtech or Hoyt, Barnett or a Ross
Hunt an oak flat, a cornfield or a fencerow
Wear Scent-Lok, wear Realtree or wear Ultimate Camo

I wish you success in our shared favorite sport
May your arrows fly true, your track jobs be short
I wish for you brother, a great season this year
Great trophies and great memories, both we hold dear.

Originally Posted by crappiekid

Here in the middle TN area our season runs from the end of September until mid January. We can kill 3 doe a day and 3 bucks a season.

Not this year! It runs form end of October to first of January. Kinda crazy in my opinion but it is what it is. They cut out the break for archery season in the middle of gun season thus shortening the entire season.

sept 24 ,is when bow season starts in tn

Originally Posted by callshy

Not this year! It runs form end of October to first of January. Kinda crazy in my opinion but it is what it is. They cut out the break for archery season in the middle of gun season thus shortening the entire season.

can't wait!

I just got my new lic. and got both doe tags i applied for and got a new rifle and scope on the way.Thumbs Up

Originally Posted by gabowman

Same thing has happened in my part of Ga. Everybody still 'thinks' youre managing your herd by killing out the does. Our season opens in 2 days with the bow.

Killing does is exactly how you manage your herd. The number of does controls the population similar to how the number of female crappie that spawn controls the fish population. With too many does there is no survival of the fittest so to speak, since there is no competion for breeding rights. There is simply too many does in the herd and not enough bucks. Any scraggly, weak buck can breed as much as he can get when the doe to buck ratio is so out of balance. Reducing the number of does in the herd, and allowing more bucks to walk helps shift the balance. Ideally, there should be one buck for every doe to ensure survival of the fittest by bucks having to compete for breeding rights, instead of little weak bucks spreading the bad traits to any doe they find in heat.