A lot of the reason the average hunter has the mentality they do is because they’ve been misinformed and hoodooed into shooting a bunch of does to keep the populations levels down……To each their own but I’m not buying into it…..You need at least 3-4 does for every buck if you want to hold them on your property and keep them from going elsewhere……

If you've got less than several thousand acres, it doesnt matter how many does you have available for each buck that you have on your property, it's not going to keep them from going elsewhere from Dec -Feb in Alabama. The overwhelming majority of your bucks will wander on and off of your property regardless, and most especially in the rut. The best that you can hope for is that your property, on any given year, encompasses the core/area/home range for several mature bucks in your area, which means they will spend a decent percentage of their time on it. Bucks will travel during the rut. They'll walk until they hit the trail of a hot one. Might be a 1/2 a mile or it might be 5, 10, 15 miles. It is just what they do. We control a lot of land and we kill new bucks, that we have zero history or pictures of, each year. At the same time, we have bucks that we have 3-4 years worth of pics of, killed on neighboring properties 2-4 miles away every year.

Goat, I have been trying. Been 4+ year olds or better for at least 5-6 years, I have great mixed habitat, great plots, lots and lots of does and essentially no hunting to my north, south and east and not much west to Rucker. I don’t hear 5 rifle shots in a year.

I predict there will be a lot of deer shot that require the services of a man and his dog. If these hunters would spend a few dollars on bullets and time shooting their rifles, I predict the number of gut shot deer would plummet.

More deer shot and not reported. It was tried from a few I know and got by without reporting. It will only get worse. Tooooooo many people hate rules/laws.