Tennessee reserve

[quiet pewter]

Tennessee reserve in cotw
New map idea

Location: east/middle Tennessee

Potential species:
Class 1
-raccoon (both sides)
-Cottontail rabbit (both sides)
-Eastern turkey (both sides)
-Wood duck (mostly west)

• collared Dove (both)
  -Bobwhite quail (west)
  -Crow (both)
  -Pigeon (both)
  -Pintail duck (mostly west)
  -Opossum (mostly east)
  -Fox squirrel (both)
  -Gray squirrel (both)
  -Gadwall (mostly west)
  -groundhog (both)
  -Armadillo (both)
  -Skunk (both)
  Class 2
  -red fox (east)
  -Gray fox (west)
  -Coyote (both)
  Class 3
  -Bobcat (both)
  -feral goat (west)
  Class 4
  -whitetail (both)
  -Wild hogs (both)
  Class 7
  -black bear (mostly east)
  Class 8
  -Rocky Mountain elk (east)

Environment:
The map will be split in half representing middle and East Tennessee.
The middle (west half): this area will be made up of mostly wild fields and local farm crops with scattered clumps of oak, pine and other native trees. Throughout this section there will be a variety of ponds and marshes making up the necessary water sources.
The east: East Tennessee is known for its mountainous environment with small creeks running through the hollers. This region will be more forested but will have plenty of large fields and openings. There will be one small creek running north-south covering half of the map along with small ponds throughout.

Bonus feature:
East Tennessee contains the famous Smoky Mountains National Park which contains dozens of old home sites. I think this would be a nice lore addition along with rusty farm implements scattered throughout the west region

Feel free to critique or give your opinion

[slow horizon]

Elk and Whitetail is definitely a yes from me.

[quiet pewter]

Whitetail aren’t really a necessity since we have so many maps of them already but it wouldn’t really feel like Tennessee without them

[candid nest]

Literally describing the Cumberland Gap, I lived right there for most of my life. They brush can be miserably thick in certain spots but lord it's good territory for a hunter to stalk through, my go to rifle was and will always be a .30-30 but a .44 lever action would be just as effective and maybe better for the ranges

[clever palm]

You don't really find gray foxes where there's lots of coyotes. Coyotes will opportunistically kill gray foxes whenever they can.

[quiet pewter]

If EW is feeling adventurous there’s always the possibility of some escaped invasive species. Iirc a herd of red deer or sika escaped somewhere in middle Tennessee a few years ago and they are growing fairly fast
Edit: I hate this time delay

[clever palm]

WT and red deer on the same map? That'd be fun

[candid nest]

True in most places, but in Tn the hills often have trees that lean at wild angles, Gray foxes climb up and the yotes can't get to them so it's not uncommon to find a few on the ridges even if there's yotes in the valley. Trapped both for years

[quiet pewter]

That or a SHOTGUN .410 would be my pick

I’m just going off what I’ve heard for the gray foxes in middle Tennessee cause over here in the east I’ve only seen 2 or 3 ever.

[candid nest]

Feral goats are a good possibility too, used to be a place I went called coyote tail ridge, had a couple dozen goats living there year round and folks would hunt them. few other places had em too

[quiet pewter]

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[candid nest]

My family didn't like goat so i never hunted them much, usually shot one for camp food if I was gonna camp and hunt a weekend. that or feral pig

idk if they would be an interesting thing to hunt but the last few years I started seeing a ton of armadillos there. mostly as road kill, but i've seen as many as six in a drive

[quiet pewter]

I completely forgot those. They haven’t quite reached me yet but I’ve seen them while camping out in fall creek falls. What do you think they’d be classed as? 3?

[candid nest]

lmfao, yeah we lived pretty close together then, Kwak too apparently

idk tho, i'd say 2 but i never thought about shooting one. imagine a .22 would be just fine

[quiet pewter]

They seem pretty dang tough from what I’ve seen but 2 makes sense

Wait hold on, kwak is in TN?

[candid nest]

yeah apparently, he lived like an hour away before I moved. not too far from Cookeville

[quiet pewter]

I would never have guessed lol

[candid nest]

yeah, weird that so many people from the same area ended up on the discord huh?

Oh yeah, Everybody I knew hunted with a levergun of some sort, and most of them had a .410 single shot in the truck "that's for pot shooting, rabbits and such"

[quiet pewter]

All I can come up with for a new weapon is a old style lever action or a semi/pump auto .410. One interesting gun that would be kinda forgotten for most would be a old hunting musket with TN’s history of Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett

Or even a muzzle loading pistol

[candid nest]

How bout a bolt action? Believe it or not I knew an old fella who had a bolt action .410 he hunted squirrels with

[quiet pewter]

That’s something I’ve not heard of but could be interesting. There’s no other shotgun like it in game yet

[candid nest]

Right? I had and hunted with a bolt action 20ga for a while. It had a choke system on the barrel that you could tighten down for shot loads or loosen up for slugs, made for a good gun to have on hand

[quiet pewter]

Now that’s unique

[candid nest]

It was a Westernfield iirc, had a 3 round drop box magazine and notch rear sight with a big brass bead up front

[quiet pewter]

Another good environment addition would be a large network of caves and cave entrances. Iirc East Tennessee has one of the largest networks of caves in the US

[candid nest]

Found one, bolt action .410

[candid nest]

Was a good pond inside a cave near my old place, always had great fishing for bluegills and bullheads, I'd fall on my ass on the slick sandstone every time i went there tho lol

[quiet pewter]

There’s a cave on my Papaw’s place but I’ve not explored it yet

[candid nest]

Man, I kinda miss home now

[errant wasp]

What species of dove are we referring to???

[candid nest]

Usually? Mourning dove, or collareds

[errant wasp]

Both would be much fun.

[molten glade]

Really solid list armadillo and groundhog will definitely be class 1
.
Where hell you getting goats at? Tmk there no wild population of feral goats
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I would also add skunk as well

[molten glade]

I really like that with the old home place and different old history things

[molten glade]

Yeah that's basically what I was wanting when we was talking about it a map of the plateau with Townsend and Johnson City and stuff mixed in basically those areas in one

[errant wasp]

Also,More in-depth names it bugs me so much when people don’t use full names.

[candid nest]

Better question: have you never been up by the pea ridge WMA? There's quite a few feral goats around there, and down toward Bridgestone Firestone too

[molten glade]

Actually no I aont

Ain't

I e never heard of them or anything that's kinda cool

[candid nest]

My dad used to take me up there in summer, taught me to bowhunt by chasing those goats

[quiet pewter]

Collared

[quiet pewter]

Could even add some old cemeteries if they want to. Those are all over the place in east TN

[molten glade]

Yess I work with a historian to clean up a lot so that would be super cool

[quiet pewter]

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