Before guns and ammo dried up I used to drive down to the Barbour County WMA range to shoot. On the way there it wasn't unusual to see deer through Russell County, but especially once you got into Barbour County. I seen 7 deer crossing County Road 49 one morning. I don't recall if I seen deer along the road during the day, but early in the morning you would see a good bit usually. I've never hunted on public lands so I'm not sure how it works. I did debate hunting Barbour WMA though because of that, but I wasn't ready in time for this season because of everything happening the way it did last year.