Outdoor! Wow is all I can say! Man those are some great deer! Alabama does have great deer but it takes discipline and some folks don't like to hear it but in my area it takes money! Some folks are fortunate enough to have both I have discipline....the other one......I'm not in the soup kitchen by any means but don't have 4 or 5 grand to spend like some. But hey I'm blessed and not complaining at all. Great deer you had earlier this year I remember seeing him when you posted the story!

Heck..I AM a local hero round here.

It aint easy..I watch a ton of bucks and only kill them if they reach 4 plus years old.Usually 5 or older. You think it is easy to pass in that buck in that video? Hell..I was doing TV...I was PAID to shoot em!

Trigger restraint goes a LOOONNGG way.

Heck..the 170 14 pt I killed on COAL GROUND!
A reclaimed coal mine. I just dont shoot unless they are big. That 150 inch 14 pt too. Same ground in Walker county.

That's cool but you can let them walk around here and never get a 150. We have killed a few in the 120 range and have killed plenty 5plus year old bucks and they would all average 100 inches. Just don't have the genetics or soil for that kind of bucks. I guess sand and pine trees just don't have a lot of nutritional value lol

Oh HECK yeah! I think the mining unearths minerals that have been lying under the surface.

Nothing but planted pines and that conservation Blend they make em plant..but dang..I see nice bucks and great turkey hunting.

You saw my post in the turkey section? those birds were from here too.

I'll check it out. I agree about the unearthing of the minerals. I guess the browse they eat takes it from the ground. I know one thing it's about impossible to plant green fields in that reclaim without breaking something on a tractor.

Dang..I killed my first Bama buck in South Bama! 128 Inches and 2 days in Bama hunting.

Then went to Union Springs and saw a 150. Hunted with Ole DAX from down there. He killed a 180 plus. People know who I mean,..ep..If More folks would hold back they'd kllem.

However..dont get me wrong..Im hunting with guys that kill every 3 year old they see...however I just set higher standards for my self.

I only need 1-2 deer and 5 ( FIVE DANG IT!~ no 3 bird limit!) gobblers to eat thru the year!

When I say South Alabama I am only talking about Mobile county....I know that if I was to drive just an hour north it would be a different story as for a antler size but for a home body myself I am satisfied with a mature buck no.matter the size. My all time favorite kill is by no means my biggest but after following him on cameras for six years and finally figuring him out he is my favorite. He was so old that his teeth were wore to the gums and missing some. I joked that he had to get so old that he was blind deaf and toothless for me to outsmart him lol.

Outdoor! Wow is all I can say! Man those are some great deer! Alabama does have great deer but it takes discipline and some folks don't like to hear it but in my area it takes money! Some folks are fortunate enough to have both I have discipline....the other one......I'm not in the soup kitchen by any means but don't have 4 or 5 grand to spend like some. But hey I'm blessed and not complaining at all. Great deer you had earlier this year I remember seeing him when you posted the story!

Heck..I AM a local hero round here.

It aint easy..I watch a ton of bucks and only kill them if they reach 4 plus years old.Usually 5 or older. You think it is easy to pass in that buck in that video? Hell..I was doing TV...I was PAID to shoot em!

Trigger restraint goes a LOOONNGG way.

Heck..the 170 14 pt I killed on COAL GROUND!
A reclaimed coal mine. I just dont shoot unless they are big. That 150 inch 14 pt too. Same ground in Walker county.

Llq

You're a cocky bastard aren't you?

Heck!!! That's one goofy m'fer there

I personally think it is harder to do now. More people are high grading in our area, meaning they're killing the very best out of the two and three yr age classes, resulting in fewer high scoring deer. We are growing plenty of mature bucks, but they are not high scoring, because those deer get killed younger. I've seen plenty of deer that had the potential to be 150+ with another year or two, but they didn't make it.

I think the main ingredients to trying to reach the 150 goal is nutrition , age , and the genetics help but we as hunters can help them more by providing all their needs ex. current deer on a place with no nutritional help will be just what they are 100 to 125 for ex.
Take a new born buck or doe give them year round mineral , protein and fertilized browse by age 5 to 7 and look at the difference , I think we would all be amazed at the difference if you could compare the two .
I realize it takes time and lots of cash over a period of years but we can greatly improve our quality of does and bucks . I saw a great example just last night of a managed club had a guy show me pics of 145-150 8 point 4 years old walk out at 45 yards and the member let him go he said it took years to get to this point but its paying off , they have killed 170 inch bucks off their place by everyone being devoted to trigger control .
Patience is a huge key to management but if everyone can buy in then the skies the limit .