the first year of DMAP if you had 25 tags you could kill em all in one day. No daily limit that first year.

Yes the majority of the state has a peak rut from October to early December, depending on location, but average dates are a full month or more ahead of most of AL. There’s a few acres along the TN border and AL where the breeding is a little later, but still way ahead of ours.

Not the southeastern corner of the state.

Georgia is just better managed than Alabama. It's got nothing to do with when their Rut timing is... what does that have to do with anything concerning antler size? Nothing.

I hunt in Georgia I have a piece of property near Dawson. It's less "brown is down". Age structure is better without question.

You don't see very many 4-5 year old bucks in Alabama. Not sure why this is so hard for some to comprehend.

Alabama can have better deer. Y'all don't want that. The minute someone changes the seasons you're on here crying in your Cheerios about it.

The AL DCNR is a pack of knuckle dragging worthless. They play around doing studies to justify their jobs and money spent. Read the studies. Their are stupid as hell and done by people with ZERO common sense apparently. Stupid people teaching their students how to be stupid? That's All Day. You eventually get to some point where they collectively as a group can't comprehend they don't know how to conduct a study because they don't understand basic fact patterns and common sense fundamentals. That's Auburn's wildlife bunch. You would think that whoever is in charge has hunted enough to understand what impact hunting pressure would have on their study. WRONG.


The majority of Georgia's Rut occurs PRIOR to Thanksgiving with really only the SW corner being during December. There is a little piece going up towards Lake Keowee that's December as well. Their rut is not just ahead of AL it mostly goes down before our rifle season opens here in AL. What does that have to do with anything related to Antler size? Nothing. But instead of asking it's pretty easy to lookup on your own. And you might actually learn something. We picked an area with a December rut because of convenience and kids ball games and all that. Otherwise I would be somewhere there is an October rut and hunt that then come hunt this shaithole State and blast does with the rest of y'all.

Its not about the timing of the rut.....its a different "strain" of deer.....That technically may not be the right word but they're different

While that is true that also has nothing to do with why you don't see many 4-5 year old deer here in Alabama. They have better genetics in Georgia. Alabama has a trigger control problem.

Kansas has better deer too they are genetically different. Doesn't make any difference when you don't see any 4-5 year old deer here in Alabama.

Our age structure is our problem.