Just wanting to see what are most people's interpretation of legal shooting hours for deer in AL? The regulations say "daylight hours only". Reading through some of the other threads it seems people have varying interpretations. Anyone have any thoughts?

Aren`t the actual "times" 30 minutes before sunrise and 30 minutes after sunset? Depending on what kind of woods your in has a lot to do with how good you can see. If I can clearly identify it through the scope then I will shoot, if not I won`t.

That's true in Mississippi but not here. There is no set time that I'm aware of.

That can get you in trouble. I have a couple of scopes that would allow for this all night long with a bright moon.

30 minutes before and after sunset. It is defined in the handbook but less obviously so than it should be.

If sunset is listed as 4:40 pm then you have to 5:10 pm to shoot, correct??

Show us where you found that in the handbook. Sunrise/Sunset can be timed even though it moves a minute or two each day so then plug in the 30 minutes gives a definite time, didn't know Alabama has that one in the regs. In other words the time that legal shooting would be defined to the minute each day and you can't use a German made $2000 Hubble Telescope to go passed it.

Where's Paw Paw Troy?

Seams like Alabama Fish and Game or Outdoors alabama magizine has a published sunset and sunrise time everday for the deer hunting season? Why would this not be thee correct time to start and stop, just ad 30 mins. Sound easy to me!

There is a defined time in the regs for doves and waterfowl but I haven't seen one for deer. If I can see less than 20 yards it's time to come down but I hunt woods not fields.

ya'll just make up this stuff , don't ya'll?????

the sunrise/sunset tables are for waterfowl hunters, not deer hunters. There is no "set" time for start/stop. One part says "daylight, another says sunset.

If you go by 30min before sunrise/30min after sunset you will be safe. My own criteria is what you can see with yer eyes, not some 56mm German scope or binocs.

So it actually officers discreation?

You must think you are a game warden or something

pretty much, and I personally never knew of a ticket for shooting after hours unless it was WAAAAY after hours and with a light.

Thank you, if I take up waterfowl hunting I'll carry the table and a watch. I have gotta get me one of those mini Hubble's where I can deer hunt till after supper time.

I ask a game warden what time he quit hunting and he said "when I can't see".

OK. Good to know. I look everyday before i go if the sunset says 4:30 pm I set my phone alarm to viberate at 5:00 pm, when phone goes off I come down, unless there is deer around me. When deer are around me, I either call a friend to drive in and pick me up or Let my gun to the ground, drop the rope and weight.

no, but I impersonated one once......

Every state that touches Alabama plus LA, ARK, KY, and SC all state one half hour before sunrise / one half hour after sunset. Leave it to Alabama to be basakwards once again.

Seems pretty simple to me. Daylight hours only. That can vary a lot from place to place not only with regards to where you're hunting---fields/woods--- but also how much cloud cover there is. Like Troy said the 30mins before sunrise/after sunset is for migratory birds including DOVES, not deer.

What's the weight for?!