If you could snap your fingers and make any changes to deer season that you wanted to, what would you do? For me:

-shorten rifle season
-limit the number of does a single hunter can kill during season
-put an antler point minimum on buck’s with the possible exception of it being a person’s first deer (not sure how that could be proved or enforced)
-do away with game check

I wouldn’t. Happy with it how it is. Especially February rifle hunting in south .

Well if we're going to wish...
I would move Christmas and Thanksgiving to summertime, so they stop screwing up the deer season.
I would make night poaching a felony and Capital offense.
I would eliminate all dogs period. Running dogs, tracking dogs, all dogs.
I would eliminate all hunting leases. Only landowners would be allowed to hunt.
Let's see.... Awwwe hell I'd just make myself supreme ruler and fix everything.

I would make dog season go till end of season so all the cry babies would have something else to wine about

North and South Zones.
Shorten overall season by 50%
9 to 14 day gun season outside the rut
2 buck limit (one with firearm, one with other)
Game check, tags, and $5k first offense fine
Does as per state recommendations

Second buck you shoot has to be 8 pt. or better.
Felony and mandatory jailtime for tresspassing or poaching.
No baiting.
Make WMA's actually plant their foodplots, no excuses.

Id make it 1 day and have a hell of a lot more money.

Ah! I forgot to include that in my dream regs…outlaw baiting again.

Doe days implemented across more areas………Tags to enforce buck limits…….Restructuring of season to end north Alabama rifle season on Jan 31

Why did I start humming, Hank Jr’s “If the South would have won” song while reading this?

Take the ten days from Feb and move it to sept 1 for a 10 day velvet season

14 day rifle season starting thanksgiving day
2 bucks per year, 1 with rifle
5 does per year unless restricted by state for areas with lower densities.
Find a way to enforce a 4 year old minimum on bucks
Add triple or quadruple the amount of game wardens we have to enforce the rules.

Make a resident liscense $500. Non Resident $1000
Baiting permit $1500
Season runs Dec 1st - Jan 31st Statewide. Method of choice (Bow, Gun, Knife, Slingshot, etc)
Make buck tags $500 ea. Buy as many as you want when you buy your liscense. No rollover. $5k fine if in violation.
No dogs
Draw for public land hunts
Trackers must have permit per county ( allows them to finish off deer)

This is good common sense.

I’m ok with current limits and restrictions but you have to increase the fine amounts exponentially. To the point that even an outlaw has to think twice.
Selfishly, close it from mid Dec through the 31st when Christmas and work has me fouled up. It would help my stress level and fomo.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the extremism, but it’d be wrong to make it all money based and price residents out. Keep non-res high though.

Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) property excluded from state seasons and bag limits to include bucks as well as does. Managing biologist and members make the decisions.

Some idots up in heah...

I wish all my adjoining landowners were some of these “idots”

No planting green fields it’s baiting. Save your green field and on the 3rd Friday- Saturday in February all must meet in a casino have a damn good time. (Spend our green field money)
Slugs only month of January damn this sitting on a power line watch 2 football fields worth of ground and slinging a bullet that far.
February take it or leave it. Like the rest of the year if you don’t want to go stay home.