Dang sure glad I live in North Alabama and have others up this way who are seeing the potential in the deer herd and are willing to take the painful steps necessary to develop it further. A 130" deer is not hard to grow up here and there in lies the problem with our state herd as a whole. The entire state is being managed based on what the hunters in the bottom 1/4 of the state want. There is a heck of a lot of regulation in place that does not fit illness for the pill that north Alabama hunters swallow for what lower Alabama wants.

Bottom line for me is this. Why ask the question of how many 130" deer can be grown in this state per square mile if you are not interested in growing bigger antlered deer. I see posts every day on this page wanting others opinions of what a deer will score and what his age is. If you don't care enough to lay off the trigger and take the difficult steps necessary to grow 130" or better deer then why even put out trail cameras. Why join a club or lease property. It's not cheap to do those things. If I wanted to just kill meat deer then do it on public land.

I agree that you cant see 130" deer on you property consistently if you don't make an effort to manage to that goal. If Alabama were to only give us one buck tag per year (I am not for that)you would see this state do exactly what Kentucky did which was start growing bigger deer. Sit back in the bushes and watch Tennessee. They took a step in the right direction again. The new two buck limit is going to make an already good situation great in about 3 years.