Jack the first year I went hunting in WV, we stayed in the same cabin that we'll be staying in this year. We went up during the first week of gun season. We arrived late Wednesday night and we were up bright and early Friday morning and in the woods. We hunted all day Thursday, all day Friday and until noon on Saturday. In two and a half days of hunting I saw 84 deer in the woods with my rifle in hand. Unfortunately, it was bucks only and I saw only one buck and I didn't see him until he was running up the side of a hill going away from me across a little creek bed.
Over the years, we'd drive out Turkeybone road through the forest and out the other end through the farms to see how many deer we could see. Until about 5 or 6 years ago we'd see 50-75 deer that evening and that was just the deer we could see and count. The last two years I hunted, I saw a total of two deer in the woods with my bow in hand and they weren't close enough for a shot. We didn't see more than a half dozen or so while driving Turkeybone the night we arrived, on Sunday when we went out to scout and the 5 days, M-F, that we hunted. It became very discouraging.
The last year anybody from the camp went up to hunt was 3 years ago. They saw more deer in the brief time they were, but they were hit by a blizzard on Tuesday that knocked down trees and tree limbs all over the place. They even lost power in the cabin. They headed back on Wednesday morning.
Bill
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