Willing to bet less than half of kills are reported. Wouldn't surprise me if it was 25%.

Thought Clark and Marengo may make the top 5, not surprised by Dallas. There is alot of people still not reporting , I don't understand why we cant go to tags that are attached to the animal like other states. The buck limit is very reasonable compared to other states, and I am all for a doe limit for every hunter every year as well. Our club allows 4 does per member. That is more than enough to feed a family. If you need more than that surely you have kids old enough to hunt as well!

Y'all keep thinking there ain't no deer in Marshall County.

It's not a problem with the system, it's a problem with the hunters.

Far more people in Alabama (heck, just look at this site) are angrily against Game Check. We don't have a bad system, we have a bad mentality. By and large we have a population of hunters who are ignorant about deer in general, and (at best) apathetic about deer management. Way more "if it's brown it's down" hunters than "trophy" hunters in Alabama. In Iowa you're in the minority if you kill a 1.5 yr old 4pt, in Alabama you're in the minority if you are against killing 1.5 yr old 4pts. See the difference?

It's a regular thread on here for a someone to criticize killing young bucks, and lots of other hunters will pile on him about "if it's legal, why do you care blah blah blah". We are far less management-minded here. Until Alabama hunters overcome this mindset, it won't matter what kind of system is in place.

Right now I hunt a military base that's about 20K acres. It's been on some style of DMP for about 10-15 years, and it's the most incredible herd I've ever hunted. EXTREMELY close to 1-1 ratio, substantial percentage of old-class animals, and it's a target rich environment where you can see 20+ deer on some hunts. It's dang near perfect because quality people are running it correctly!!!! As of this past weekend we reached our stated doe harvest numbers (100) and shut off the doe killing. Now, I personally wanted to shut down two weeks ago around 75 does. But 75% of the fellas out there are beside themselves!!!...they are pissed off about shutting down the does. These are also the same guys who continually bring in 2.5yr old, 13" wide 8pts (because hey, they're legal--4 on one side). We'll never overcome this mentality.

I agree with you to some extent, but we do not have the overall quality a lot of the states you are referring to because of ag crops (Not saying there are not some really good deer running around, just not the quantity of them some other states enjoy). People just don't want to go 4 or 5 years without killing a buck. the majority of places people hunt in Alabama the regular guy could wait a lifetime to kill a 140 inch 4.5 year old buck, that being said I am sure the argument would be if one generation could sacrifice it then there would be a lot more of them. I just don't think Alabama is comparable to a lot of other states as far as killing only mature bucks.

I've got 500 acres in Marshall Co. TERRIBLE! I drive either an he north or two hrs west to deer hunt. There are a couple pockets of deer in Marshall, guarantee that where 95% of the harvest has come from. Patches and Greenbriar Cove areas, Kennamer Cove area to 79N and north of the State Park east of the river. And Dream Ranch don't count. Just terrible low density everywhere else. Not enough land and too many poachers. I can see more deer in one or two sittings on my other properties than I'll see on our 500 acres in Marshall all season.

I think I'll go on a doe killin' spree and check them in as Marshall County kills. Just wanta help ya'll get your numbers up.

I've killed 2 does this season in Marshall Co. I guess I'm part of the problem. Oh well.

Same mentality as refusing to vote for anyone who isn't a democrat or republican. If you keep doing the same things you WILL get the same results. If 80% of the 2 1/2 half year olds lived to be 4 1/2 years old ,instead of the maybe 10% we have now we would have LOTS of big bucks.Can you imagine what the hunting would be like here if there were 8 times as many 4 1/2 year old bucks? Maybe not as many 170's as IOWA but plenty of 140 class deer. I will never understand killing a spike or 4 point when you can legally kill a doe? Yet some people kill several every year, yes they don't report them,haha. Talked to someone just this week who killed a spike and a little 5 point in the same day and reported them both as does on different days.

YES!!! I've said that 10,000 times!!! Why wouldn't you just kill a doe?

Sometimes, people are new to hunting, and try for multiple seasons before they kill a deer. Sometimes, a deer finally walks in front of them, and it is a spike or a 4 point. So then that hunter kills the deer, and they are super happy, and then the whole point of hunting is accomplished.


I haven't killed any, and had the opportunity to, but that is an extremely understandable reason why someone would kill a spike or a 4 point.

Looks like they count deer like they count snapper

I will tell you this that the MANDATORY red snapper reporting yields 25% participation among private individuals and 65% among professionals.

How will a tag system work if folks won't report one via a damn app or number?

I see plenty of deer in marshall county, last year was just flat out awesome for me as far as numbers go.

+1

I am thinking the same percentage.

There are a lot of counties that are considered top counties like in the black belt region that on a daily basis will have no where near the number of hunters as other counties like Walker where I live. In Walker county you have more people and a lot of those own 10-40 acres and they hunt on it and kill deer on all those small parcels on land. In those other counties with a lot less population hunters live somewhere else and only hunt those counties on the weekend. So number of deer killed does not in any way prove that county has more deer than some other counties I have would say in a lot of instances just the opposite because of the disparity of man days hunted between those counties. Walker is somewhere around number 9 as far as kills and I promise you it is nowhere near number 9 in population.

If I lived within 150 miles of Jackson County I would be leasing every acre of land I could find. LOTS more deer up there and it seems most of them are 150" to 200" bucks.

Killing a B&C buck in Alabama is about like winning the lottery. This isn't Iowa and regardless of how many regulations Chuck & Co. pass it never will be. I don't personally shoot young bucks but I couldnt care less if that's what somebody else wants to do.

I think 25 is optimistic. I don't know a single person who has even downloaded the app