I have hunted in and lived in tag states. You are right that wou cant stop them all, but you can stop a lot of them. The tag systems that work have a number that corresponds to the license holder on them. If you have tags that are in your wifes name (license number) on a deer without her around you are gonna get fined. Even if they used their wife and kids tags they could still only kill the amount that they have tags for. Not the unlimited number they can kill now.
I actually really enjoyed the hunting in the tag states I was in. Tags arent really inconvenient at all. I lived in New Mexico amd Colorado where you have to enter a drawing to hunt and just hope you get picked. That was inconvenient! Tags, not inconvenient at all.

I have hunted in and lived in tag states. You are right that wou cant stop them all, but you can stop a lot of them. The tag systems that work have a number that corresponds to the license holder on them. If you have tags that are in your wifes name (license number) on a deer without her around you are gonna get fined. Even if they used their wife and kids tags they could still only kill the amount that they have tags for. Not the unlimited number they can kill now.
I actually really enjoyed the hunting in the tag states I was in. Tags arent really inconvenient at all. I lived in New Mexico amd Colorado where you have to enter a drawing to hunt and just hope you get picked. That was inconvenient! Tags, not inconvenient at all.

Wow..you have no idea. Ive hunted all those state and NEVER..EVER saw a 24 hr check in..hence the hassle!

Where do you think you go? the damn 24 hr Walmart super center?????

No..you go to bait shops, hunting gd stores, etc...little mom and pop places. Many dont open at hours you like. Once again..you dont know a thing about what your talking about..sorry.

No bud I'm with you 100% I don't want that crap. I have a hard enough time finding my wallet I don't need to keep up with tags too.

Im out here..its easier talking to my dang mother in law then arguing a point here. ODO..out.

I definitely agree that the gamewardens need more help. Poachers make me sick. I would be in favor of higher license prices if the money went to directly funding the game enforcement officers.
The officers need to have clear laws they can enforce though. The Alabama regs are not clear or enforceable. All some of us want is clear laws that can be enforced.
It would be a whole lot easier to tell who has an illegal deer in the bed of the truck if all the legal ones had a tag hanging on em.

First of all, your avatar is amazing.

That's up to the Judge's. Start paying attention to what Judge's you vote in.Because they can do all that now. Peer pressure is the best weapon for it you know guys that do wrong call them out. I don't know one hunter that kills more than they need. But I know lots of poachers that do. Its not the guy killing a few deer a yr hurting the number it's the poachers. The avg guy don't kill but 3-5 deer a yr at most. I've herd of 19 yr old punks killing 150 a summer.

It's not really more regulations, it is a way to enforce the ones we already have. There is already government involvement in hunting. The problem is the gov involvement under the current regs is useless bc it is not efficient or useful. The regs already say you can only take 3 bucks a year, all tags will do is make it easier to enforce that.

Tags work in other states, I don't understand why you guys don't think they will here !

Dang big government keeps violating those 19 yr olds rights to kill as many deer as they want. Today they take away your summer hunting rights tomorrow they are coming for your guns. Dang big government.

The DCNR all of a sudden wants to micro-manage every aspect of hunting in a state where the land base is over 70% privately owned. You are more likely to get a ticket for forgetting your pen, than an outlaw because he takes too much resources and time to catch. Outlaws will continue to prevail because the time it takes to catch them cuts out on easy "revenue generation". The "just" will pay and be burdened by limited management options and continue to have no increased ability or agency resource to combat the "un-just".

I am thankful that the private landowner in Alabama manages their own land, timber, water, and wildlife; most more rigorously than required by the broad framework of guidelines within state law. If it weren't for them we wouldn't have the rich wildlife resources we have today.

Alabama needs to continue with a broad framework of game laws that provides flexibility to the stewards of the resource. Enforcement needs to concentrate on enforcement of the real trouble makers for their "revenue generation". Don't add more layers of regulation to the ethical hunters of this state who are already declining in numbers. Folks on this forum; we are the good guys who are making strides to take care of our resources. We're not the ones who need to be more regulated. We need the bad apples that have existed for decades in the same places and communities to quit being a drain on our resources. That is the call of the DCNR, and once that call is answered people will be more receptive to more regulation on better than 16 million privately owned acres in Alabama !