I think that's probably a pretty safe bet.....

By sampling a portion of the hunters to see how their harvest has been effected……If there has been a big die off then you expect hunters to kill less as a result……You don’t have to have every deer reported to see how the ups and downs impact the rest of the hunters…..Kind of like if we had a bunch of guys illegally gill net fishing a lake……We would know the fish population is decreasing when the legal fishermen report catching a lot less……Same concept basically

As a total yes we killed more bucks than does but you really need to look at that on a county by county basis......There's a big difference between them

So here's a question for you now off of that assumption……Looking at the data and knowing this is likely to be the case…..Does that influence your doe harvesting strategy moving into next season if you're in Jackson Co??

Something going on with bucks in the Black Belt....

Some of the biggest bucks I've seen coming out of Marengo and surrounding counties this year.

Its an overall population decrease in many areas along with a decrease in buck age structure for many folks as well…..Not as many deer and not as many mature bucks

No.

Just admit you were wrong and end this madness

Can’t complain. Shot a good deer. Had some fun. Saw a bunch of deer.

Stop the posts

We are the party of common sense

The hunting in the black belt is starting to suck bigtime. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that there are FAR less total deer here than just a couple years ago. It is insanely obvious to anyone who hunts here consistently like I do

I’ve noticed it too

Some properties with real good habitat have less than ideal populations and buck quality is not good either. I attribute that more to high grading by neighbors than a habitat issue though.

it's why Colorado had to go draw only statewide. massive amount of hunters and not enough resources. this 3 month rifle season in alabama has to go no need to rifle hunt for 3 straight months.

I think we should all buy really nice cameras and take pictures of the deer. Not like a trail camera pics, that's too easy . I'm talking about scouting, hanging stands, cutting picture lanes, etc. No kills for 2 yrs. We can post our pics on here and get our egos stroked.

What y'all think?

Oh no ! You've done it now !

This is a real thing and not photoshopped. There was a character on a TV show years ago that did this. He was supposed to be a hunter that got tired of killing deer but still enjoyed the "hunt". He did exactly what you are describing and used one of these cameras to get the "feel" of hunting.

There's such a huge swing in rut times here that it would be hard to do that right. I would prefer lowering the bag limits and / or antler restrictions while leaving the season as-is.