You should let me be the judge of that by allowing me to take the biggest buck you have.

Just like I said. The guy who owns 40 acres wants to limit his neighbors because they are shooting all his deer.

Well said.

I've got good neighbors and free ranging deer. We're all glad for each other's kills and help keep it all going.

Or maybe the guy with 40 acres thinks he knows what is best for the deer herd?? That is always my thoughts regardless of tract size. That is also the reason I am against the 10 day extension into Feb. I've been vocal about that.

As one of those 40 acre owners i dont think i know what's best but i do try to manage what i have by what i see and have observed . So as far as the Feb. deal you dont have to worry about that on my place because i will practice just like before that date was extended .

2 does per buck

Apparently some of y'all have never hunted a low deer density area. I have several times in different clubs where if you saw 15-20 deer a year you were on them. These were in tallapoosa, coosa and Dallas counties hell I would go to public land and see far more deer then on the clubs. 10 years ago when I bought my 40 acres I was lucky to get pics of 10 different deer a year. I have over doubled that number the last few years with what I've done. Does it bother me every time I hear a shot close by? Not as much as it use to but I don't want the numbers in my area going back to the point they were 10 years ago. But at the same point I have friends that in the last 10 years have seen tremendous decreases from neighbors killing everything that walks. The year before the three buck rule went into effect I had a guy on core land brag about killing 21 spikes. He may have been fos but that's what he said. Like I said earlier it's not the folks who can control themselves it's the ones who can't or won't. And yes I take a lot of pride in my property as most land owners do who do everything in their means to benefit the wildlife.

Possibly the guy next to him with only 10 acres just gets to hunt a couple times a year and would like to kill a deer for the freezer. Maybe he don't give a rip about managing for trophy bucks. Maybe he just likes hunting but he is getting fed up with having to jump through hoops just to carry a rifle into the woods a couple times a year and possibly bring home something for the family table.

Ah shat! Here we go again.

R.H. Clark speaks the truth. ^^

That guy who gets to hunt only a few times a year doesn't give two chits about trophy management, "better deer hunting experiences" here or anything else other than actually enjoying his time to hunt a few times a year without hearing some kind of deer shaming BS from the others who think we're a shitty state because we don't do it like Kansas or Ohio or Iowa.

Correct. Not everyone is looking for the exact same experience as those around them are.

THANK YOU.

Some magazine article gives ALABAMA a "D" grade for our deer hunting in comparison to surrounding states. Then in the next sentence, they admit they are grading for trophy bucks. They just can't seem to ever get it. They only think of TV style hunting and not the average Joe on his off day trying to put a little meat on the ground.

LOL you so funny.... I have plenty of trigger control, but I know plenty who don't and have no desire to learn.

Since we do not have a tagging system in this State and because it has worked in the past I would go with doe days. For those places that need to kill more there is a program for that.

That will work for large landowners or those that lease larger tracts, but for the smaller landowners they are at the mercy of their neighbors trigger control.

Your right. They are our deer, but if the state allows them to destroy the resource who is responsible? The hunter that was just following the state's regulation but doesn't really care about the future or the State that is responsible for managing the resource and did nothing when there was obviously a problem in certain areas?

No but you can base he management for zones according to what is going on in them. In zones with large land tracts and fewer people there would obviously be less restrictions than ion heavily populated zones. As you say you can't manage the whole state for the small landowners and you dang sure can't do it for the areas with large tracts of land with lower human populations. We need a zone management system for this state. There is no one size fits all plan that will work for this whole state.

I think coyotes are having more of an effect on population than over harvest in my neck of the woods. We have tons of deer in my part of s montgomery co. Sat on a finally getting green field tues. afternoon. 13 deer on the field, 2 spikes, 9 does and 2 fawns that had lost their spots. Should be a lot more fawns with that many does. It varies each year. Saw lots of fawns last year and not many the year before

I like the way people like to throw the Trophy Hunter word out to demean people when limiting doe harvest has nothing to do with damn Trophy Hunting but rather wanting to see more deer thereby increasing hunter satisfaction, participation and hopefully getting some kids to keep deer hunting.