Might be moving to debary which is a hour from orlando and 1.5 from Jacksonville. Any info would be gr8!
Hows the deer hunting in florida
Bone Collector 85
21 - 32 of 32 Posts
Joined
·
4,371 Posts
I would imagine that deer hunting in Florida requires being on an IV drip of Permethrin [ko]
Joined
·
5,960 Posts
I look at it this way - it can't be worse than zone 5 [lol]
Joined
·
5,006 Posts
I dont find Florida as "buggy" as people think it is. Especially when the temps are high and the sun's blazing down.
Joined
·
4,371 Posts
I'm just inherently biased against places that don't have seasons or snow and are inhumanly hot and humid most of the time. When the time comes to leave NJ I'll be headed north, not south.
Joined
·
2,331 Posts
Lived in the keys for handful of years...
You should see the size of those key deer!
You should see the size of those key deer!
Generally speaking the further you are from the equator the larger an animal's body size(and in the case of whitetail their rack) becomes. This is true among most mammals and is based on surface area to body volume ratio(Bergmann's principle) there are other factors such a nutrition and genetics. In Texas the deer are heavily managed for racks but if you look at them their bodies are tiny compared to a buck from Maine or Canada.
I lived in Jacksonville for about 10 years and hunted Camp Blanding, Middleburg, and the Nassau County Wildlife Management Area quite a bit. Decent deer numbers but getting a shot on a 60# doe is a good day...Never saw an 8 point over 110" and that weighed in at just 109#. The deer are small, but they are there....plenty of turkey though....The biggest issue in hunting Florida are the mosquitoes....Damn things are huge and bite through leather...No amount of deet keeps them off you either...I resorted to wearing a bug suit which makes for some interesting shooting form with the bow.
Almost forgot.....walking out to your spot in the dark is a giant NO! they have these F'n huge Banana Spiders that make giant man sized webs tree to tree across the deer trails....Darn things are monsters.....Your day goes to sh!t when you are walking in to your spot in the dark and walk into one of those....you are covered head to toe in web doing your best impression of the kung fu fighter and have a spider that size and feel of a furry rat crawling on your face......VERY BAD JU JU! State land is great for gun hunting as the north involves a lot of paper mill property that is leased to the state and they clear cut 5 to 10 acre lots.....plenty of fresh growth and you can set up on an edge with the rifle and get a solid shot....But bow season is a hot, muggy, and mosquito infested special kind of hell....its where die hard bow hunters who've sinned get sent when they die....God spoketh and said unto him "there is no Heaven, but only Hell for you....you are sentenced to bow hunt deer in Florida for all eternity!"
Joined
·
4,371 Posts
Joined
·
4,573 Posts
That's true the snakes eat most of the bugs.
Joined
·
5,006 Posts
One time I was at the Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge (central Florida) and my eyes were on the ground looking to collect snakes as I'm walking along a trail. Something glistened in the sun out of the corner of my eye, and I stopped and realized it was a spider web. When I looked up, the spider was centered perfectly "head high" and about 12 to 15 inches in front of my face. Their webs look like something out of a SpiderMan movie. This one was probably about 6 feet wide (entire trail) and maybe 8 feet tall.
This is what they look like.
Yep....Looks like the one that Got Me! LOL.....Not dangerous, but SUUUUUPPPPPEEEEEERRRRRRRR CREAPY!
21 - 32 of 32 Posts
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
-
?
