Originally Posted by ALclearcut
I haven't seen a single deer in 10 sits on a new property I started hunting. Camera sightings are low too. And this place has ideal habitat. Thick cover, pine thickets, creeks, hardwoods, food plots, etc. The unlimited doe season, 3 buck limit (which incentivizes killing even more does), along with more predators has absolutely demolished the deer herd in much of the state. They tried to fix an overpopulated southwest Alabama region and ruined hunting in the rest of the state.

I've been hunting the same family land in Bibb comfort the last 25 years. We've done nothing but improve the habitat and add more and more acres of food. Sighting are down across the board the last 6 or 7 years. Same places we would see 20-30 in we now see 6 or 7. Places we used to see 6-7 we know see 0-1. We've only killed 1 doe on 900 acres thIs year including this opening weekend of rifle. And no, buck quality has not improved. We average killing less than 1 buck a year on 900 acres. Things were better before we started killing 10-12 does a year. Now it's a hard habit to break.