First time Alabama hunter here. I've spent my years as a FL resident hunting right over corn sometimes. I've killed them on it and off it.

I'll share my ticket story now that it's done and over with and I tried to fight it in court.

I was placing corn in my plot in front of a camera in the summer to see what kind of deer I had on this new to me club spot. It was my spot to hunt! It came time to plant our winter/fall plot and I did not put a single bit of corn out once my plot was tilled under and planted. This was a month prior to season opener.

But we planted corn stalks on our plots in July. So I had a ton of "LEGAL" corn still on my plot that the raccoons did a good job of spreading out all over the place on my plot.

Again, I placed no corn out over a month prior to opening day of bow season.

Come opening day of bow season, the man walks in on me and goes right to where I used to put corn out over the summer (he had been in there before and knew exactly where to go). He walked right past all my "LEGAL" corn stalks and cob corn on the ground.

He kicked the dirt and started digging into the dirt with his boots. He found about 5 kernels of old corn that had roots etc... This corn had been tilled under, was growing roots etc... My corn stalks were about 15 yards away! He WROTE ME A TICKET! I asked and pleaded with him why that he was writing me a ticket for this when I had a ton of LEGAL corn everywhere. He just said, "I'm just doing my job and there's still corn there where you placed it!"

Being the truthful person I am, I said, sure I put it there a long time ago and it had been tilled under and was old and you had to dig it out of the dirt with your boots etc... It didn't help. Went to court over it and that officer got up there and lied through his teeth saying that I had fresh scattered corn in a larger area. Lied right to the judge under oath.

Even when he wrote me the ticket, he said, he pretty much knew I was not "baiting" but he wrote the ticket anyway.

Alabama's rules are simply crazy!!!!! Either allow it or don't! Planting corn or putting it out on the ground is no different! And writing me a ticket for month old corn growing roots when I have fresh "LEGAL" corn 15 yards away is just ridiculous!!!!!!