When you had a doe season people knew that they had a limited time to harvest a doe for meat in their freezer. Now that people can shoot a doe anytime they have the perception of I will just wait I have all season and then they never have the opportunity to kill another doe again.
Have heard more than one wildlife official and/or biologist say this same thing.
The shorter "doe days" was the carrot dangling on the string in front of hunters. When the all-season ability was put in, that carrot disappeared and there was no rush or urgency to hunt those few 'doe days.'
It's not just something that happened in Alabama, either.
kinda like how other states have a very short gun season and they kill as many deer in a week as we do in 2 1/2 months
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan
