Originally Posted By: crenshawco
Originally Posted By: ikillbux
There are substantially more posts on this board saying we have less deer today than before. Most replies from the LFTT threads report very low sightings. Yet it appears everybody wants complete freedom to use an Apache helicopter with a mini-gun to kill every living deer in the state. What gives, fellas? You don't get more deer by killing more deer. You don't get larger bucks by killing smaller bucks. So we have a 3 buck limit...We could have a two week shotgun only season and one buck tag. My word, the State gave 10 days in February (for Pete's sake!!!!!!!) because apparently we're such bad hunters we couldn't see a buck the other 3.5 months of deer season. You can pretty much still kill every doe that walks out, just pile em up holocaust style! And we're complaining and fear-mongering about the State wanting to get a better grip on our deer? And then use some straw man argument about stripping us of liberty? Abuse will ultimately strip us of hunting liberties, not governmental dictatorship.
I'm very close friends with the biologists on our military base...he often tells me he'd like to do some different things, but cannot trust the majority of our hunters. Not in the sense he thinks they're unlawful, but they can't be turned loose to use their own judgment because they'll just stack up whatever moves all season long.


Based off of your posts in this thread, it sounds like to me you are the typical "trophy hunter," and there is not a thing wrong with that. But, you also sound like you think that your approach to hunting is the only right approach, and that simply isn't right. If a hunter wants to go out and shoot 3 small bucks a year, that ought to be his right to do so. Nobody should be forced into the QDMA crap because the group in charge forced it into regulation. That's not what hunting in Alabama has ever been about. It's always been left up to the hunters to have fairly liberal seasons and limits to make choices that they see fit. It's been that way for decades, and we still boast some of the largest deer and turkey populations in the nation. Sadly, it looks like those days are coming to an end with all these regulations.


No we have not always had liberal doe seasons and highly doubt we still have some of the highest deer and especially turkey populations in the nation anymore.

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