I don't think anyone can answer that question. However, I do recall Cullman County having 2 different Hunter choice seasons for years and years. I never heard complaints about the different dates back then.
Here is a question for you. Pretend you hunt an area in Cullman Co where the deer always rut in early February, but yet your season always ends on Jan. 31st. Your neighbor's are in Morgan County and have a season going to Feb. 10th. and thus get to hunt the rut. Do you want to have the season in your area of Cullman County extended to Feb. 10th or not?
Actually, I think it’s pretty easy question to answer.....because it if we don’t move toward a system like the one linked then all of this chit is for nothing more than making a few fancy charts and graphs. If nothing changes then why do it?
I’m fine with the entire state ending on Feb 10…..I think we probably need to include some areas of southwest AL in the doe days zone but besides that I don’t believe the state needs to be trying to micro-manage further. The reason why is because the state can’t manage on a small enough scale to be truly effective. You can cut it down to an individual county basis and still find so much variation amongst an area that size that the prescription written by the state is really no better suited for the individuals in the area than a broad scale management plan would be. The individual landowners are really the only ones who can whittle it down any further.
The state needs to do a better job of “marketing” the changes that they want to see happen through education instead of resorting to forcing them upon us.
