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Re: Hunting on Redstone Arsenal
[Re: hsvbama]
#1567163
12/17/15 02:48 PM
12/17/15 02:48 PM
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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 11,827 Huntsville
JUGHEAD
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Booner
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 11,827
Huntsville
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Alot of wisdom in that ^ post. Unless the ranges are open or the calendar has hit about January 15....I dont waste my time.
"The only reason I shoot a 3.5" shell for turkeys is because they don't make a 4" one." - t123winters
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Re: Hunting on Redstone Arsenal
[Re: hsvbama]
#1567492
12/17/15 05:20 PM
12/17/15 05:20 PM
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 4,675 Madison, AL
wmd
10 point
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10 point
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Posts: 4,675
Madison, AL
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The hunting sucks compared to 5-10 years ago. Best advice I was ever given was to never, ever, under any circumstances, allow RSA to be your only place to hunt (thanks Jughead!). Have a primary place and a backup place or three to hunt because you will get hosed by the politics and bureaucracy out there.
Also, there are way too many bow hunters out there so you may as well hunt Wheeler or one of the nearby WMAs if bow hunting is your thing.
Shutting an area down for the season is bummer, but it is nothing compared to seeing an office park being built on it seeing how Huntsville has such a dearth of available office space within 5 minutes of the main gate.
But hey, it is a military installation and not a hunting preserve for military and civilian employees so what can you do but find a better place to hunt.
"Any way you look at it, most of the problems facing baboons can be expressed in two words: other baboons" - D.L. Cheney and R.M. Seyfarth
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Re: Hunting on Redstone Arsenal
[Re: hsvbama]
#1568839
12/18/15 04:16 PM
12/18/15 04:16 PM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,805 alabama
outdoors1
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,805
alabama
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Can anyone provide some insight on hunting Redstone? Not looking for anyone's primo spot, but maybe some suggestions on decent areas to bow hunt. I have been out to a few. Not much sign in one. Jumped a doe in another one. Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks. Probably like most public use areas. Someone shoots a large one then everybody starts killing everything instead of allowing them to grow. Cycle starts over!
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Re: Hunting on Redstone Arsenal
[Re: hsvbama]
#1569070
12/18/15 06:50 PM
12/18/15 06:50 PM
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 2,395 By the River
antlerhunter
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There are some really good deer and a bunch of scrubby racked deer. I know of 4-5 we have pics of that any Alabama hunter would be proud of. You don't have to walk miles or wait on the ranges to shoot a shore nuff good one, but you do have to hunt smart. If I didn't drive 5 days a week out there, I might hunt them more, but the drive gets old. We're doing things to grow healthier, more mature deer, not necessarily more deer. Numbers are way down from the early 2000's, but the numbers are steady. The coyotes and bobcats are our worst enemies right now. Plus it is becoming more and more compartmentalized with all of the new fences that have been put in over the past few years. Deer breeding peak is the last week of Jan thru the first two weeks of Feb. we have a few that hit it earlier and a few up into March, but the last week of Jan is prime.we are actually trying to shift the season out two weeks but we have to get final approval from the State DCNR and US FWS. Probably won't fly for the WNWR areas, but we may get it for the rest of the place in the future.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... (Seuss)
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Re: Hunting on Redstone Arsenal
[Re: outdoors1]
#1569208
12/19/15 02:34 AM
12/19/15 02:34 AM
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Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 989 Athens, AL
N_AL_Slugger
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Posts: 989
Athens, AL
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Can we see some pics of the ones still walking around out there? Is there a million dollar budget just for wildife management or does that include other recreation? RSA hunting is an MWR activity. Google MWR. It is non-appropriated funds generated by user fees. I'll show you an "after" pic once I claim one of the monsters this year.
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Re: Hunting on Redstone Arsenal
[Re: hsvbama]
#1574713
12/22/15 04:07 PM
12/22/15 04:07 PM
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 2,395 By the River
antlerhunter
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8 point
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Posts: 2,395
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As of today; 20 does and 3 bucks. Been really slow.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... (Seuss)
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