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NASHVILLE --- Tennessee’s Muzzleloader/Archery Deer Season opens on Saturday, Nov. 7 and goes through Friday, Nov.

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will participate in the Cherokee Heritage/Birchwood Crane Days this year, being held on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission will vote on the 2010 sportfishing regulations among its agenda items during its meeting on Oct.

CARYVILLE, Tenn.  --- The first-ever managed elk hunt in Tennessee has come to a close on just its second day as the fifth and final elk was harvested by Franklin resident Tami Miller late Tuesday afternoon at the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area.

 

Miller etched her name into the record book with four other sportsmen who had harvests on the opening day, Monday. Miller’s elk was a 5x6 (5 antler points on one side, 6 on the other) with an estimated weight of 700 pounds.

 

Charles “Chuck” Flynn from the Rockford community in Blount County was confirmed as the first person to legally harvest an elk in Tennessee in almost 150 years. The life-long sportsman made his second shot attempt from about 100 yards shortly after 7:30 a.m. (EDT) as the elk stood on the edge of an open field. The elk field dressed at 520 pounds. Two other hunters, Craig Gardner of Parrottsville, and Ronald Woodard of Oak Ridge quickly followed with their harvests in an approximate span of 30 minutes.

 

The fourth elk was taken at around 4:30 p.m. on Monday as Jeff Moses of Cleveland brought down his elk from about 120 yards standing in a field, 25 yards from the woods.

NORTH CUMBERLAND WMA --- It did not take long for history to be made on a frosty morning after the first elk hunt began in Tennessee in almost 150 years as three hunters recorded their respective places in the history book.

 

Charles “Chuck” Flynn from the Rockford community in Blount County  has been confirmed as the first person to legally harvest an elk in Tennessee since documentation from Obion County in 1865. Two other hunters, Craig Gardner of Parrottsville, and Ronald Woodard of Oak Ridge quickly followed suit Monday morning.

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has confirmed a pair of state fishing records, one established in Anderson County at Bull Run Cree

NASHVILLE --- After much anticipation, the time is near for Tennessee’s first-ever managed elk hunt. Set for the North Cumberland Wildlife Management area, the hunt officially begins Oct. 19 and five hunters will have through Oct. 23 to harvest the first elk in the state since the 1860s.