Originally Posted by jwalker77
Originally Posted by ShootemupTex
Could this also be that Hunting Licenses were going at 170k ish a year and dropping pre-pandemic and now appear to be holding steady at 290-300k. That is a lot more hunters in the woods over the last 4 years.

This is the problem right here and itll only get worse. I hope some of the new hunters get sick of it and nobody in their family hunts a deer for ten generations. Heck, i hope most of yall quit hunting. Yall need to try out golf, i hear its much more gradifying than deer hunting.


^ this is most of the problem right here!!!!! Almost every wooded acre is being hunted nowadays!!!

Prime example:
5 years ago there were 3 total people (me and 2 others) that I knew of that deer hunted within a mile of my Cullman County property. Now, I can call 15 other people by name that hunt within that same one mile diameter…I’m about the only one that bow hunts, but it’s TOUGH hunting that time of year due to standing crops!!! I had 3 bucks on camera that I’d shoot coming into this season and I encountered two of them at dark two different times in bow season (too dark to see my sights)…By dark on opening afternoon of gun season: 2 of those 3 bucks were dead. I haven’t had a picture of the lone survivor since November 29th, so I feel sure he’s dead as well…I haven’t hunted said property since Thanksgiving week and I won’t waste my time until a shooter buck shows up on camera.