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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: deerfeeder89]
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01/18/18 05:05 PM
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Clem
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Or if you gave them $99 they'd bitch about it not being $100.
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: deerfeeder89]
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01/18/18 05:07 PM
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You could let them make their own rules and regulations and they'd still bitch about it.
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: Clem]
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01/18/18 07:15 PM
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Jakethesnake
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Why are people not satisfied with 36,000 acres with an AR? Y'all should shut the entire f'king season down for three years to "help the herd." The petition is from local residents that live inside the forest. I agree, i hunt it hard and its terrible. There are hardly no deer at bankhead wma or the national forest. Thats why. Cause it sucks. When you have multiple land owners that live inside the forest that plant nice green fields and watch them like a hawk and go all year and see 2 deer in the field...thats a problem. Its not just one land owner, its a lot. Bottom line, when you hand out, i dont know exactly but maybe 300 permits to hunt zone b and there are about 4 deer killed then that is a problem. And its always like that. The amount of acres, the number of hunters on a wma hunt only shooting a few deer needs fixing. Yall must not hunt that land much or you would agree. Bankhead needs some serious attention. Its a ghost town. Matt Brock i thought you would agree that Bankhead is terrible? Look at the permits handed out on zone b...look at the deer killed in relation to those permits. All that land should have more deer. The forest and wma needs more attention. If the wardens and biologists had to hunt it then things would be different i think.
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: FurFlyin]
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01/18/18 07:20 PM
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Jakethesnake
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Why are people not satisfied with 36,000 acres with an AR? If you personally gave every resident in the state of AL a crisp, new $100 bill, 85% of them would bitch about it. You must not hunt bankhead forest or its wma enough to know that its the worst place to see a deer.
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: Clem]
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01/18/18 07:34 PM
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Yep, I see that. I should have said to include "deer hunting" and not Bankhead in the title. Like this:
Anyone know about a deer hunting petition for Bankhead?
Just trying to help. Carry on.
No like: Black Panther Quota in Bankhead
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: deerfeeder89]
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01/18/18 08:19 PM
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jawbone
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Who is our Aldeer member who has famously killed a couple of absolute giants in Bankhead? I'm sure he love this thread as it really says " No deer in Bankhead. Stay away!".
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
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01/18/18 08:53 PM
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No, it wasn't him. As I recall, it was a Polish sounding name, like Ofuski, but not him. He and the deer were featured in a couple of magazines. Some of the oldtimers with a better remembering machine than I will sound off.
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: deerfeeder89]
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01/19/18 03:39 AM
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I live within 10 mins of Choccolocco WMA and hunt there some (basically when it's the only option I have). I won't go so far as to say it horrible, but it's just extremely low odds. I suspect Bankhead is similar, and probably for the same reasons. Chocco is 57,000 acres of mostly large, mature, steep hardwoods. Frankly, that SUCKS for deer, almost never will have a high density in that type cover/terrain. There has been some good timber activity here in recent years, so I think it will help. Other than that, I don't think doe restrictions or antler restrictions will have barely any effect....it's like saying, "please don't shoot the handful of does and small bucks we DO have." They'd either have to import a trainload of deer to immediately boost the density, and/or make half the place clearcut to give them what they really want/need. I'd rather have 1 acre of cutover than 100 acres of hardwoods.
Last edited by ikillbux; 01/19/18 03:40 AM.
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: jawbone]
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01/19/18 03:45 AM
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Who is our Aldeer member who has famously killed a couple of absolute giants in Bankhead? I'm sure he love this thread as it really says " No deer in Bankhead. Stay away!". It is Mteague
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
[Re: deerfeeder89]
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01/19/18 04:28 AM
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I hunted both the national forest and the WMA a few times over the years, and I saw deer on more hunts than not, and saw a couple of nice bucks. I killed a doe with my bow on a food plot. I never did see a lot of deer, but there are deer there. There are also quite a few hunters on that area that see plenty of deer and bring out a few great bucks each year. It’s NEVER going to have high numbers of deer. There’s a certain percentage of the place that received little to zero management because of the wilderness designation, or minimal impact designation. Only congressional action can change that. The hunters I’ve talked to say the numbers seem to be getting better since the reduction in antlerless harvest, but it’s not going to happen overnight. Spotlight surveys indicate there’s more deer than y’all think. I can’t go to a food plot out there without seeing tracks and grazing. The population is low, but I don’t think anything will change that short of drastic habitat improvement.
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
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01/19/18 05:42 AM
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You N AL guys crack me up. Most of us guys down south would trade a testicle for a 100 acres of hardwoods instead of the 1,000's of acres of pine thickets and clearcuts.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Petition for bankhead?
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01/19/18 05:53 AM
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MBrock kills a 150 inch buck every year on the 50 yardline of Legion Field.
If there was one living there I'll bet he could do it.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
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