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Originally Posted by HunterDave
It sounds like you’re describing the winter of 12/13 (I think it was?) when we got that midwinter thaw and then the freeze. I hunted a herd of 13 whitetail near Gunn and shot a dry doe. A young fella shot his first deer, a fawn, leaving 11 deer going into the winter. In the Spring there were 5 left and they were just skin and bone with no fawn that year. I bumped a buck one day and he barely made in over a fence, fell on the other side and had a hard time getting up. I haven’t hunted there since but the population has recovered. Just brutal that winter.
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I'm describing that this past winter was unlike 12-13. Deep snow this year but did not get the crust on top of the snow. Yes, the winter of 12-13 was a big kill off of deer.