Originally Posted By: modoc_333
Because they don't REALLY want EVERYONE shooting 3. That would mess up the goal numbers. Any time a limit is set on anything, they have a formula to estimate how many hunters will kill 0, how many will limit out per day, how many will limit out per season, how many will hunt only 1-3 days, how many will hunt A LOT of days, etc, etc. If you let everyone kill all 3 in one day, then more bucks would be killed all season. Those guys that only hunt 1 day per year (maybe a dog drive or a paid hunt) might kill 3 bucks whereas under the current system they would only kill 1 for the season. etc, etc. so, the math looks like it wouldn't matter (and to some hunters it wouldn't), but statewide it would change the numbers. So, they might would have to drop it to 2 instead of 3 or limit how many days you could kill bucks.


Excellent post. You should be on the CAB. One of the ways they justified allowing a February season in North AL was that it was just another way to allow hunters to get their limit. I forget which CAB member said it, but it seemed his logic was that as long as each hunter killed only 3, then all would be great.

Let's see, they claim we have 1.5 million deer and 500,000 hunters, though both are guesses. So if each hunter killed 3 bucks, well, we don't have that many bucks.

So allowing multiple bucks to be killed in one day will increase the buck harvest for sure, just as the February hunting will do. But we were told we had to have the buck limit because it wasn't biologically sound to kill so many bucks. Something doesn't add up.

Last edited by poorcountrypreacher; 12/09/16 04:20 AM.
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