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     Whether your looking to plan your next hunt or decide what county to buy some deerhunting property in Kentucky, you'll find what your looking for here. I want this to be the most resourceful site for the recreational Kentucky hunter. Currently ranked 7th on the Boone & Crockett list, Kentucky is an up and coming sleeper state of the whitetail world. Kentucky offers excellent private land and public land deerhunting opportunities. It is a state that offers archery, modern gun, muzzleloader and crossbow seasons.
     There are several Kentucky counties that produce an annual deer harvest rate of 2000 deer or more. Although Owen and Crittenden counties have proven themselves the top leaders in harvest numbers, don't overlook Christian, Pendleton, Shelby and Graves counties for very good deer numbers. The Bluegrass and the Purchase Regions, as a whole, offer the counties with the highest deer numbers but any county is capable of producing a great deer.
     Although Kentucky suffered a large outbreak of EHD in 2007, harvest numbers for 2008 were third of all time. Even with almost record harvest for 2008 most hunters reported less than normal deer sightings. I don't think we have yet to see the full effects of the EHD outbreak of 2007. Some counties of Kentucky weren't hurt as bad as others, therefore their harvest numbers were very good. The 2009-10 season took a big drop in harvest numbers and the total was 113,585. The 2010-11 brought some new zone changes, as many counties dropped a zone number. This was brought on by low harvests numbers for the 2009-2010 season. Also different this year is change in the quota hunt bonus tag. If you get drawn for a quota hunt on a WMA you have to use your statewide tag. If you plan on deerhunting this year in Kentucky, you had better take a good look at the new hunting guide to learn all the changes made for this year.
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    Here at Bucks of the Bluegrass.com we promote kids in the outdoors. The overall hunting population is declining each year and it is very important to introduce new people to the outdoors, and there is nobody better than a kid. My son started bowhunting last fall and was able to harvest a buck and a doe with his bow. There was no better feeling than being with him during those moments. Even if you don't have a kid of your own, find someone elses kid and introduce them into this great sport of hunting.
     The new season is almost here and everyone should be shooting those bows and getting stands hung. The early season is a great time to harvest a big buck, as they are very patternable. During the early season the deer are still in a summer time pattern of food and bed and they don't travel very far. They key is to find those fields that the bucks have been feeding in all summer and set up on the edges. During the early season the deer are very active in the late afternoon hours on those field edges. Another good setup is on a watering hole. With the high temps during early season the deer have to go to water on a regular basis. Usually in late September the acorns start to fall, and it is at this point that the deer get harder to pattern and become more active during the night time hours.