![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Southern deer herds, lacking climate challenges and any serious predator threats (coyotes the new exception), can quickly overrun their habitat. Murphy highlights land management as what makes Southern deer hunting more challenging, or more productive. This type of land management leaves hunters with no easily discerned real focus points, as are common in better deer habitats, making pin-pointing stand locations difficult. He sees the South’s biggest problem as homogeneous habitat, particularly huge pine plantations that appeared after the spotted owl debate in the West shifted much paper/timber production to the South. Long-time Georgia resident Brian Murphy, executive director of the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA), is no stranger to Southern deer hunting. These factors offer unique challenges, combined with lesser genetics that make high-scoring bucks much rarer than in Midwestern states. In my opinion the best deer hunters are made in the following five regions/areas:Īt times it seems the Deep South proper (to my mind this means the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and even East Texas) offers too much of a good thing - too much cover, too much food and sometimes too many deer. ![]()
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