What is folks seeing far as rut in morgan and Lawrence county? Is it getting close?

Next week will be a big week in the area.

Ya done missed it.

I have a feeling you may be right.

Ive found it really starts in that area around December 1st, but really gets cranking around the 9th or 10th and it is wide open.

Ive killed a few good ones on December 2nd. One of my favorite days to hunt. Good bucks out looking during daylight, or trailing does, pushing them.

Good luck and let us know what you see and shoot.

Central and eastern Morgan county will be January normally, The western part of Morgan should be good soon. I work on the northwest part of Morgan by Lawrence county and there is nothing yet. Last year I saw good activity the 2nd week of December and have seen it strong through the end of December

Feel free to wait til Jan in the NW part of Morgan or in Lawrence and you'll miss it. A few big ones hit the dirt this pm that we're chasing pretty hard. Dec 5-15 is the primo max.

I've worked for Kinder Morgan at Nucor for nearly 8 years and spent a lot of hours driving the port road back where Nucor joins Mallard Creek and last year there was hard chasing the 2nd week of Dec. Thats probably the first year I remember it that hard that early. I saw a 3 yr old 8 pt this week and some other guys have been mentioning seeing smaller bucks. No one has seen anything great yet. In years past it seems the last week of December was very good. I may still have pics a guy got on one day of 3 different bucks, I figure there was a hot doe that day. One was around a 120 8pt, then 150 10pt, and the last is hard to say but from a 100yds off he looked very wide.

From 65 East its a different story. Our bucks are probably still in groups and won't get going until January

Yea you're right about priceville/Somerville area but it's kicking west. By dec 25 season mostly over for us out west.

I have been working all week and not able to hunt much, but I was able to get in my shooting house about 4:15 yesterday evening & killed a decent 8 pt a couple of minutes later. After I shot him, I pulled my camera cards to check the past week's activity. Starting on the 24th, the buck activity on my little place really picked up, and I have several pics of them following or chasing does, and hitting a scrape. I had previously had some buck activity around the week of the youth hunt, but it had gotten very slow until the 24th, then its like a switch was flipped. This is in eastern Lauderdale Co.

Congrats! You got a picture of that 8?

This is true. From what I'm seeing the bucks are still hanging around together.

Finally figured out how to post the pic. Excuse the fancy camo, I went right from work to the shooting house.

Pm sent

Otdoorobsession and boo boo head hit it. Breeding data for most of the valley in Lawrence county and western Morgan is consistently anytime in December. December 1-15 should be prime.

1st post so go easy...

Seems like most people refer to Black Warrior WMA as simply "Bankhead." I could be completely mistaken and, if so, I welcome any and all corrections. So, would this information be pertaining to the entirety of BNF or just to areas north of 278?

Didn’t get the pm.

I’m not referring to anything on Bankhead. I’m referring to the TN Valley north of Bankhead. Bankhead dates are even earlier. Peak breeding has already taken place there. The valley is about 14-21 days later.

What he said

Thanks gents