Y'all must not hunt wmas much if you don't think people put on man drives reguraly. I pushed some cutover last year on cahaba WMA with a couple of friends who are members on this site and there was nothing unsafe about it. Every time I have hunted coosa WMA there are going to be groups of guys walking the cutovers. Usually they do this mid morning to mid day.

Please show a little respect for other hunters. I'd be tempted to put a hole in you myself!

WTH all I posted was me eating a little popcorn.Best thing to do is set that baby on fire hour before daylight and get to the other side.

Y'all would sure enough go nuts if y'all hunted some of the public land up in Ohio, in the shotgun season week.

Skyline is different than most WMAs in Bama. I've been to Barbour co wma and was kinda shocked how different ppl hunt down there. I guess it's just kind of an unwritten rule.

I don't really have a prob with drives, but you better be in mountain climber shape to drive Skyline.

No way I would want to man drive Skyline WMA, to steep and too much chance of getting some lead slung at you azz!

All kidding about the hillbillies aside ... I guess I just feel like driving would be so inconsiderate to the other hunters and take so little skill. Just my $0.02 ...

Here are my thoughts.

1. I don't think there is anybody on this site tough enough/stupid enough to walk the cutover on top of Jacobs Mountain. Unless it has opened up a lot in the past two years, walking through it ain't gonna be an option. You might could belly crawl down a deer trail but even that won't be easy.

2. Given some of the comments on here, I find them somewhat ironic because if you read through most topics on here about hunting public land seems like somebody always recommends getting in early, staying all day, ..., and let the OCPHs push the deer by you.

3. Having done a lot of dog hunts and deer drives growing up, every deer doesn't run wide open to the next county out in front of the dogs and drivers. Most of the big deer that were killed during drives were killed trying to slip out the backside after the dogs or drivers went by.

I was hunting Cahaba WMA a few years ago and was sitting in my stand in a sweet spot at the crack of daylight and all of a sudden the woods lit up with a mandrive. I was pretty ticked off about it. Maybe I'm wrong but I felt like it messed up the hunting after they left.

Hadn't heard that in a while.

do we not care about the other hunters hunting that day.

Respect other hunters that are in the area. I have been walked up on too many times. My father had a guy start cutting up a dead tree beside our truck about an hour before dark. My old man's hillbilly side showed at that point.

Why don't we just get a bunch of hounds together and we can let them go and we won't have to do any walking.

dogs won't run on skyline. Shooters has set off a fogger of his dog spray in the valley up there.

I think that on WMA's, man drives should be allowed only between 10-2. That should give everybody a chance to enjoy their style of hunting.

I am local for this area. Just to be honest i would not come up to skyline with that ignorance. These lands are prime hunting for many people and you need to hunt it properly or stay out.

These areas are very good hunting and most of the stories you hear are from people showing up hunting that are not real hunters. 1.They come in way after daylight 2.They don't scout it at all 3.They shoot anything that walks
I live in this area and hunt it as often as i can. If you want to kill a deer do it like a sportsman.

Thats a good one! All dogs that make it will be treated like pitbulls= shot twice and drug down the rode!

Your good r murphree. I just like to stir the pot with the Jackson County hunters. Yall are a thightly wound bunch up there.

Once again I will say there is a time and place for this. I have been at Cahaba Wma and drove past a group of 15 or 20 trucks making man drives. Never once did I think about stopping and telling them they weren't real sportsman though.

Amazing ... so folks that wait until daylight and stalk to their spot aren't real hunters? Folks that use technology to locate hunting spots instead of tromping through the woods aren't real hunters? And folks that kill legal deer aren't real hunters?

Folks that do drives (where legal) on public land that they have just as much right to hunt the way they like to hunt aren't real hunters or sportsmen?

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