I wasn't asking for help killing deer. Aldeer tells me all I need to know . I'm just sick of all the poaching in central and north Baldwin County. Wardens don't seem to have the resources to deal with the problem and probably never will. I'm all for Game Check. I think we should have tags and we should have to take our deer to a check in station. And I think trespassers and poachers need to be penalized more to make an example. People don't obey the law because they know they can't get caught the way it works now. 2nd weekend of the season and I'm still hearing people who dont know it's buck only, or than Game check is mandatory, or that you even have to carry a harvest record. Either that or throw all the rules out the window and let's put the hurt on this deer heard. I'm tired of trying to do it right while others don't and get away with it.

Last weekend I took my rifle and fired a couple shots to check my scope. I did bow hunt that morning and did hear a couple shots far me. Maybe they were checking there scopes also or maybe squirrel hunting. I hear shots all the time even in the summer don't mean they are shooting deer.

What CNC said. Don't assume a shot fired nearby is someone breaking the law.

I had one single rifle blast pretty close about 7:15 this morning. he was probably checking to make sure it was sighted in before sunday school though.

When I was shooting several of my rifles at 400 yards about a month ago, I had a deer walk out of the woods and look back towards me. I was set up in the tailgate of my truck and had a 10 x 10 easy up tent set up over me. Deer walked right behind my target. Was looking at me for a couple of minutes before she finally walked off.

We heard a single rifle blast nearby at 8:45am today. Shortly afterward, I got a photo texted. Another nuisance hog bit the dust. Somewhere within ear shot, a neighbor surely thought it was a law violator killing "his deer."

Im another one of those random shots people hear. I dont bow hunt so bow season for me is hog and varmit hunting time.
It gets me out in the woods. I take out a few varmits every year doing it. I get to watch what deer are showing up and their behavior and learn from it.

Ive shot and withen 20 or 30 minutes of it had deer come thru. Its not a ruined hunt if you hear a gunshot.

It's common to hear shots around our place at last light, and it aint hogs or tree rats. I Don't even bother trying to bow hunt up there...

If your around my club, you've heard hogs being shot.

I would always get in a twist at this one spot I hunted because target shooters would often fire it up about a mile away (that's not a guess because I know where they shot at). This particular location was on a power line cut and one afternoon my son and I are watching a doe group about 500 yds away on the neighbors property feeding in a small green field. Sure enough someone starts popping off a mile away. The deer never reacted, never even looked in that direction. Kept feeding for 20 more minutes until a helicopter came pretty close. Even then they didn't bolt they just slowly turned and moseyed into the tree line. This was eye opening.

Couple years ago I watched my son shoot a deer in a green field and the other deer (yes it was a spike) never reacted to the shot at all. He was 60 yards away and didn't seem to even know anything had even happened. Kept feeding occasionally looking over at the dead deer. 20 min later 4 does walked into the field, one of which I shot, and they all ran off.

Saturday early afternoon I was covered up with rabbit dogs and at least 2 hunters. They left after awhile and an hour or so later I had does coming in to feed (unfortunately for me I was in the wrong tree).

I've only been hunting for a few years and have plenty to learn but one thing I have learned is that deer don't get nearly as excited about things as hunters do. If you think about it why should they. Think about the deer you jump up just moving in and out of the woods. They don't run to the next county. I've had them run 20 yds and stop. If they don't smell or see me but just hear me they may not leave at all. I've had deer blow at me and then 20 min later decide it was nothing and come on in. There is no animal in the Alabama woods that can run a deer down, save maybe a gang of yotes and I really don't think they could. Deer don't have to get excited about every sound they hear whether it's gun shots or whatever.

Don't sweat it just hunt. And yes I know you're upset about the idea of poachers and not so much the noise but there's really nothing you can do about it unless you catch them in the act so just hunt.