You’re required to report them or your depredation permit may just not get renewed. If I was you I’d report them and sure as heck not brag about not doing it on line.

As for GC I’ve reported all of my deer and turkeys and haven’t had one problem while doing it.

Reported mine and helped my son report his

1 buck, took me 20 seconds to report it. Get the Outdoor Alabama app on your phone, it's pretty handy

Unless you kill a buck in the extended season and try to report it and it tells you that the season is out so you have to go to where you have cell service and call it in and since you were relying on the app and didn't carry a paper form with you the buck in the bed of your truck is technically illegal. The system is far from having all the kinks worked out, or at least it was at the end of last year.

Not very handy when the damn thing doesn't work!

There was a problem with the android version, for a while, but it's been working fine since before this last deer season. I used it to report my deer and a couple for other people.
I use the GPS map often, as well.

Not for me , took me over 24 hrs to log in a deer this season , same thing on the first turkey after the first turkey no problems. BrentM had trouble logging in a turkey this spring on an Iphone. I'm sure there are plenty of others that have had trouble since before this past deer season. It's screwed up , has been since the beginning.

I reported the does and bucks I took this year.... It's what I'm supposed to do....

I reported the one buck I killed this past season. App did not work, probably due to spotty cell service, but for whatever reason, it would not take the data, so I filled out the paper harvest record before I moved the buck and kept it with me. Killed the buck Friday afternoon and hunted til Tuesday of the following week. I actually logged the buck using my home computer, when I got back home, which was well over 48 hrs after harvest as required by law. It's bad news when you break the law while trying to obey it to the letter.

Also, while I only killed one buck and didnt hunt much this past year, I probably saw 20-25 rack bucks and probably at least 70-75 does and yearlings during the 10 or so days I was able to hunt. If you look at my limited harvest, which was 100% due to my intentionally being very selective, you'd think that I did not have a successful season, and that we might have a population issue in the area I hunt, which is certainly not the case. Point being, what is the GC info, off the one buck I killed, out of the 20+ that I saw, telling Chuck and his boys about the population, sex ratio, overall herd health and fawn recruitment????? All of these are key metrics in managing a whitetail deer herd, none of which is being reported, recorded, or even requested. What does my one dead deer tell Chuck? All it tells him is that there is one less trophy buck running around in North Wilcox.

This is what, five years now with the system (counting voluntary years)?

This Pocket Ranger system is used in other states and has been for a while. There should be no kinks in this system by now.

15 button bucks, spikes, and yearling does.

None Reported.

Sincerely,

My beloved Neighbor

But seriously, I don't get the resentment and pushback on reporting your kills. The state is trying to do the best it can. But as the stuborn-ass older guys fade away, an upcoming crop of younger and more conservation-oriented hunters will be coming along and they'll report their kills.

I.E. My 18 yr old fisher and hunter son made a comment the other day about a 7 lbs bass someone posted on Facebook. The bass was obviously dead. My son commented: "Man, it's a shame that guy killed that big female bass. He should have let that bass go and kept the smaller ones!" In most circumstances, my son would be right.

Now, some of you may rip him a new AH, but he is not alone. All his fishing high school friends never keep big bass as they're right, the smaller bass eat much better and why would you kill a big female? Let her go to reproduce and let someone else have a chance to catch (and release) her. I can't disagree with him, however, I give the dude in the picture the benefit of the doubt that maybe there were circumstances for him killing that big bass.

But here's my point... the younger outdoorsmen are better conservationist than my generation was or is. They will take better care of this earth than my generation has.

It's just like seatbelts... when mandatory, the old-timers bitched. But if you drive a vehicle and you don't wear a seatbelt, you're an idiot. And good God, you can't argue with proven statistics so please don't argue your point that what if you drive off a bridge and can't get your seatbelt off? You'll be showing your ignorance if you do.

GameCheck isn't a bad thing. And I'm a conservative Republican that hates gov interference in my life.

Let the fire fly!

if he shouldn't keep the big female why should he keep a small one ?
if i choose not to wear a set belt how does that kill the other driver ?
if GC is not bad then what is good about ? i can get data from scratching my ass but it aint gonna tell me how often yours need scratching

this^^^ is an unmitigated load of shitt. I'm 67 and it has been my generation and that before me that were "conserving" and building Alabamas deer herds. The state of Alabama and the damn millineals didn't and haven't done a damn thing. It was older landowners and hunters that built the hers up.

Younger , newer hunters embraced the states mandate to kill the snot out of does and here we are now. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I whole-heartedly agree!!
Some are mistaking an elitist Trophy Hunter/Fisherman attitude as a Conservationist.

BhamFred & Hogwild, I can't believe y'all would say something like that!! BUT, y'all are 100% correct!!

That Sir, may be the most insightful post you've ever made.

Y'all got that right! Those of us that were around when there were few to no deer and the leadership in Montgomery at that time made the herd what it is today. Whole different world when there were few deer and you actually had to hunt to get one. Being elitist, trophy, selfish minded has little to do with conservation.