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Doe Days #2463699
04/19/18 10:42 AM
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Back around the early to mid 90’s my family went from hunting only in Jackson Co…. to traveling south and venturing into counties like Tallapoosa, Russell, Pike…..It was always fun to pack up the campers and head south. Around that same time period the state was beginning to allow more liberal doe harvesting. You had something like a 7 day doe season in North Alabama where we hunted……and around 15-20 days in the southern counties.

I think we should have left doe harvesting alone right about there. We could have adjusted the days around a little more for certain areas and slightly tweaked it here and there as time went on..... but we royally messed up when we opened up a free for all doe harvest across most of the state… The worst thing that it did was it changed the hunters’ mentalities. We could try to implement those same exact doe days across the state now and you would likely receive a lot of pushback…..”I need to be able to shoot does!!!”….some would say…..while others would talk about restricting opportunity and this and that….maybe rightfully so……but the point is that back when we had doe days folks were just happy to have them……now they feel like the same thing would be taking something away from them.





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Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463706
04/19/18 10:51 AM
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I’d be in on doe days for sure!

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Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463714
04/19/18 11:11 AM
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I agree. And I think some would argue that this prevents people from shooting spikes, 4 pointers, etc. because someone would just shoot a doe instead for meat, etc.

But that is not my experience. What the current system has produced is an entire generation of hunters that have no trigger control. They just blast deer. Does, spikes... doesn't matter. Everything is legal in their eyes with essentially no limit unless they tell on themselves. And that is where the game check push back comes from. That's asking people to tell on themselves. Not everyone obviously because many of us do follow the rules but a lot of hunters in this state disregard them completely.


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Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463747
04/19/18 12:06 PM
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Anybody remember state issued "Doe Tags" program, we had 2000 acres in S Montgomery county and was issued 100 tags per year. We were in the program for 4yrs. Looking back very bad program. We need to go back to special doe days.

Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463784
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At 2000 acres, you should have had about 10-15 doe tags. Someone made a huge mistake.

Re: Doe Days [Re: ALFisher] #2463786
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Originally Posted by ALFisher
At 2000 acres, you should have had about 10-15 doe tags. Someone made a huge mistake.


Oh no. That's really what it would be. Tons of deer there.

Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463804
04/19/18 01:32 PM
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We were on the conservation program. We had 3000 acres. Our doe tags were based on the weight and age of what we killed. We pulled all jaw bones and sent them in to Montgomery. They gave us doe tags accordingly. One of our members was a state biologist. After the state went to 2 does a day,there was no point . The biologist limited us to 15 even in years when we got more. The year we went to 2 does a day, it sounded like we were in a war zone. The club next to us killed over 100 does a year for a few years. They had 25 members and were required to 4 or pay fines. We had a huge population until the ag fields were planted in long leaf and hurricane Ivan in 04. took about 99% of our timber. The hunting in our part of Conecuh county will never be the same


Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
Re: Doe Days [Re: woodleyrd] #2463817
04/19/18 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by woodleyrd
Anybody remember state issued "Doe Tags" program, we had 2000 acres in S Montgomery county and was issued 100 tags per year. We were in the program for 4yrs. Looking back very bad program. We need to go back to special doe days.

Ah, the fabled DMAP program. Where, in most cases, the "biologist" would show up once before deer season, and give you a handful of tags. If you asked for more, he'd give you another handful, and see you again next year, just before deer season.


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Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463844
04/19/18 02:28 PM
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Back in those days, you only had to wear hunter orange during doe days and not the rest of the season. Also most of us were dog hunting in those days.

Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463867
04/19/18 02:58 PM
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I think "most of us" were not dog hunting, back then.
Some of us have always hated dog hunting, from the time we was toddlers.
And I still don't wear no stupid orange of any kind.


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Re: Doe Days [Re: Out back] #2463869
04/19/18 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Out back
I think "most of us" were not dog hunting, back then.
Some of us have always hated dog hunting, from the time we was toddlers.
And I still don't wear no stupid orange of any kind.


You sound like my Grandpa he kept an orange hat cover rolled up in his back pocket just Incase the game warden ever pulled up on him but he hated wearing orange, he thought the deer would spot him if he had any on

Re: Doe Days [Re: MC21] #2463873
04/19/18 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by MC21
Originally Posted by Out back
I think "most of us" were not dog hunting, back then.
Some of us have always hated dog hunting, from the time we was toddlers.
And I still don't wear no stupid orange of any kind.


You sound like my Grandpa he kept an orange hat cover rolled up in his back pocket just Incase the game warden ever pulled up on him but he hated wearing orange, he thought the deer would spot him if he had any on

The deer absolutely WILL spot you. No question about it.
They can't tell you it's orange, but they can dang sure see it clearly.
Plus, when your neighbors spot that orange dot, he's gonna raise his scoped rifle and put the cross hairs on your head, just to see what you're up to.

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Re: Doe Days [Re: Out back] #2463877
04/19/18 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Out back
Originally Posted by MC21
Originally Posted by Out back
I think "most of us" were not dog hunting, back then.
Some of us have always hated dog hunting, from the time we was toddlers.
And I still don't wear no stupid orange of any kind.


You sound like my Grandpa he kept an orange hat cover rolled up in his back pocket just Incase the game warden ever pulled up on him but he hated wearing orange, he thought the deer would spot him if he had any on

The deer absolutely WILL spot you. No question about it.
They can't tell you it's orange, but they can dang sure see it clearly.
Plus, when your neighbors spot that orange dot, he's gonna raise his scoped rifle and put the cross hairs on your head, just to see what you're up to.



Is there any hunting law you follow?

Re: Doe Days [Re: therealhojo] #2463878
04/19/18 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by therealhojo
Originally Posted by Out back
Originally Posted by MC21
Originally Posted by Out back
I think "most of us" were not dog hunting, back then.
Some of us have always hated dog hunting, from the time we was toddlers.
And I still don't wear no stupid orange of any kind.


You sound like my Grandpa he kept an orange hat cover rolled up in his back pocket just Incase the game warden ever pulled up on him but he hated wearing orange, he thought the deer would spot him if he had any on

The deer absolutely WILL spot you. No question about it.
They can't tell you it's orange, but they can dang sure see it clearly.
Plus, when your neighbors spot that orange dot, he's gonna raise his scoped rifle and put the cross hairs on your head, just to see what you're up to.



Is there any hunting law you follow?

He doesn’t hunt over corn haha

Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463903
04/19/18 03:36 PM
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I follow all the laws.
The orange rule is not law, it's a regulation.


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Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2463973
04/19/18 04:56 PM
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We need three different time lengths of doe days falling around Christmas vacation……..21 days……..10 days………and 3 days……Everyone falls in under one of the three…..district biologists and staff make the call for the counties in their districts…….Why can’t it be that simple?? Don’t you think our biologists have their ear to the ground well enough to choose between A, B, or C? without all the fuss?? How did we decide on doe days back in the 90's before game check??


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Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2464057
04/19/18 06:22 PM
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I remember when it was 12/26-12/31. We would put the hammer down those 6 days and fill the freezers. Horns the rest of the season.


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Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2464100
04/19/18 06:55 PM
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Christmas is a bad time for doe days in our area cause that’s prime rut time don’t need to shoot does then. Id say first 10-15 days of season.


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Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2464120
04/19/18 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by CNC
We need three different time lengths of doe days falling around Christmas vacation……..21 days……..10 days………and 3 days……Everyone falls in under one of the three…..district biologists and staff make the call for the counties in their districts…….Why can’t it be that simple?? Don’t you think our biologists have their ear to the ground well enough to choose between A, B, or C? without all the fuss?? How did we decide on doe days back in the 90's before game check??


So you are saying that only people who can take off x-day to y-day should be allowed to shoot does. I'm self-employed and my work schedule is full up to New Years and my wife and I travel afterward because that is the only time we are both dead pay wise. Most of the guys in my club are industrial shift workers. They are either on or off and it takes an act of congress to keep their vacations even when they've scheduled them in advance.

Re: Doe Days [Re: CNC] #2464143
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Back in the 80's and early 90's my family had a deer cooler in Vincent. That cooler was a mad house for about 2 weeks during doe days. we would have deer stacked every where ! I got paid $5 for every deer I skinned. I thought I was rich lol. I think we should go back to doe days but that will never happen.


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