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by Mbrock. 04/28/24 09:16 PM
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
[Re: Remington270]
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09/24/16 08:45 AM
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Here in La we have 10 different zones. The zone I'm in opened last weekend. Our season dates all revolve around the rut timing and therefore the age of fawns. Our fawns drop in May and our rut is in October so we open early here. Can't speak for other states.
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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Here in La we have 10 different zones. The zone I'm in opened last weekend. Our season dates all revolve around the rut timing and therefore the age of fawns. Our fawns drop in May and our rut is in October so we open early here. Can't speak for other states. After Game Check, we'll be that lucky too (roll eyes)
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
[Re: Remington270]
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09/24/16 09:04 AM
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Damn you want to climb and sweat ? I wish they would add time when its cool and the endless rut is going on !
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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LOL We love being in woods before the guns. The deer walk freely. Screw hunting that early. take your butt to South Carolina if you love fighting skeeters and sweating that much. Hunt Safe
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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09/24/16 09:33 AM
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South Carolina- early September Mid-August on Lowcountry private lands, with bow or gun. It definitely is interesting how the states differ in season openings. Deer seasons are one example - Georgia, Tennessee or Mississippi opening weeks before Alabama. Dove season is another - opens Labor Day or Sept. 1 or that weekend in several states, but the doves must not cross our state lines until two weeks later. As for sweating and skeeters and heat, if anyone wants to fight that then so be it IF the biology supports earlier openings. Raccoon season opened Sept. 1 and it was hotter than the back 40 of Hades that night, but we went. Giving hunters the option is IMO better than having a bureaucrat say "Gahh, no one needs to hunt that early in the heat." just because they think it's too hot and wouldn't go themselves.
Last edited by Clem; 09/24/16 09:38 AM.
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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09/24/16 11:29 AM
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I assume too many fawns will not survive due to age if their mother is killed. Too many times I have watched fawns nursing the first week of bow season in North Alabama. I can only imagine the fawns farther south this time of year.
Babies have a hard time making it without their mothers around. Just my opinion.
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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My bucks are like clockwork this time of year. If Alabama opened mid September, I would already have my limit on big deer by October 15th Yelp!^^^^^
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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I assume too many fawns will not survive due to age if their mother is killed. Too many times I have watched fawns nursing the first week of bow season in North Alabama. I can only imagine the fawns farther south this time of year.
This certainly is a strong possibility and makes sense biologically from a bucket biologist standpoint, for sure. But to the original post, are Alabama's deer and fawns that much different than those born in Tennessee (north Alabama), Mississippi (west-central/south) and south Georgia (southwest Alabama?) Are the rut-fawndrop dates-times in those adjacent states so different that they can open their seasons 2-3 weeks earlier and not sustain any significant biological harm?
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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Damn you want to climb and sweat ? I wish they would add time when its cool and the endless rut is going on ! I'm just eager to get out there!
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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09/24/16 12:46 PM
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I wish they'd bring bow season in Oct. 1 here.
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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09/24/16 01:58 PM
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South Carolina- early September Mid-August on Lowcountry private lands, with bow or gun. It definitely is interesting how the states differ in season openings. Deer seasons are one example - Georgia, Tennessee or Mississippi opening weeks before Alabama. Dove season is another - opens Labor Day or Sept. 1 or that weekend in several states, but the doves must not cross our state lines until two weeks later. As for sweating and skeeters and heat, if anyone wants to fight that then so be it IF the biology supports earlier openings. Raccoon season opened Sept. 1 and it was hotter than the back 40 of Hades that night, but we went. Giving hunters the option is IMO better than having a bureaucrat say "Gahh, no one needs to hunt that early in the heat." just because they think it's too hot and wouldn't go themselves. One of the places I used to outfit was South Carolina. Velvet bucks in August! It was hot but well worth it. That was one of the busiest 2 weeks until Sept.. Even 2 1/2 weeks sometimes. Great Chance to get a BIG 125 - 140 class buck out in the beans! I even shot a good un myself there back in 2005 after I stopped outfitting and was filming for a show. Got there too late due to a hurricane and they care taker said the producer already left...go hunt. I set up on the soybeans behind the house and kilt "Ole Moe"..the buck the producer and his co lessor were after! On video and filmed myself. Came in with 5 bucks..one alnost as big as him...but he had 2 Main beams on one side. I put the video on here before. I love the first week of ANY season personally. Did I mention I have LOTS of beans around my land. They JUST now started harvesting them. Id love to catch a good un coming out or in to those dang beans about now.
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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09/24/16 02:09 PM
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I like it starting on the 15th. Bucks seem to stay on a schedule through November, anyway.
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Re: Why do most other states around us start bow hunting earlier?
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09/24/16 03:14 PM
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Probably just need to leave it alone. I agree with the above personally. But to answer your question, who knows what the dream team hunting law makers we got in the gump will decide on what they want to do next. Just look at the stupid south/north zone dove hunting tomfoolery they came up with.
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