Well football starts today and I’m in full blown deer hunting mode now. All of us have unique circumstances of where, how and how often we can hunt but I enjoy reading about your personal goals for this hunting season. Some of y’all may not have a goal other than to enjoy Gods creation and that is certainly one of mine!l as well!
Here are mine

1- Share a few hunts with my girls. They don’t like cold mornings but I manage to get them to with me a couple of times every year.

2- Hunt with friends. I am solo hunter most of the time but I really enjoy sharing hunts with my good friends. A couple of us take a trip somewhere every year and there’s nothing better than telling stories around a camp fire after a full days hunt.

3- This is the serious goal. Find a couple of mature bucks on public land and kill a couple of them. Honestly I’d be thrilled with 1. I went scouting last week and put out cams for the first time. I’m excited to see what might be out there and start putting the puzzle together to get one on the ground.

Good luck brother, hope you accomplish all of those and more! I just want to have some good times in the woods with my lil man and buddies. I hope to be blessed to see a few deer, have a lot of laughs, fellowship and try to remember to thank the lord for every moment of it! If I kill a deer that will be only a bonus.

I'm gonna try to relax a lil more and not take it so serious It's always been a hard grind I'm slap wore out when it ends. I'm fortunate to have land all around my house and I usually go 5 days a week if only for an hour., if im tired this year im sleeping in unless conditions r great..i'm also gonna try and let my daughter get her fist this year. GOOD LUCK to all and Roll Tide

Amen! We need to get together and hunt anyway. I don’t know how we are both in Calera and have never met each other.

1. Kill at least "a deer" with my bow (keep the streak alive)
2. Kill 3 "racked" bucks. I don't have any specifics, just "something I'd mount".

Have a ball in the woods with my wife and 2 girls
Kill a nice buck with my bow.-I've let a couple 3 yr olds walk before holding out for a mature buck,but my patience is running out. If the right 3 yr old walks by me,he might be toast

Goal number 1. Figure out where Southwood is hunting and hunted last year......


For real, my goals are pretty simple this year. With a 3 week old, I'm not expecting too much. I'm back to hunting only public land, but in a way I'm kind of excited about it. I don't know how much I'll be able to scout before bow season, but my main goal is to just get one deer with a bow this year. As always, my goal is to kill a buck. Maybe this year is the year, but at the same time I can't realistically take the time to hunt em' like I did last year.

I also wouldn't mind getting a couple buddies to do a one or two night camping/hunting trip, but we will see.

In the following order...

Enjoy the woods, the fellowship, and the time spent with others.

Get each of my boys an opportunity at a nice buck

Kill a deer with my bow


Oh, and get invited to OO’s trophy rich grounds and shoot both a spike and a doe. If I can get a lesson in martial arts and paintball while I’m there, even better.

I want to get my wife her first deer, and kill a couple of back straps for the freezer. Would love to kill a mature buck, but mostly just enjoy being outdoors.

Get to go more than 10 times and kill a deer in alabama.
Id like to kill a few on public ground like i used to before i grew up an stuff i hope yall have a good season.

Kill some stuff.

1) kill a deer with my bow
2) get my son a deer
3) kill a decent buck

1. Have a safe season.
2. Enjoy hunts and time spent with family/friends.
3. Kill my first P&Y buck (Illinois or Alabama)
4. Kill a good buck with my bow in Bama

Well I thought I had my goals set a long time ago but events keep happening so they are changing on a daily basis. Just found out the guy that owns the land I hunt, his wife has stage 4 colon cancer. It kills my soul. As of now.....

Do all the work I can on his land and kill some deer so I can give him the meat since he won't be doing much hunting at all.

I have a cousin in Tampa that just retired who has never killed a decent deer in Alabama. I hope to put him on one in Selma this year.

I plan to bait up some deer and take my 4 year old daughter and let her watch and try to teach her what to do and what not to do.

If I can get myself some meat and a decent buck this year that would be an added bonus. I had a pretty good year last season so if I have a down year for myself this year I ain't gonna be bitter about it.

In the long term I would like to start filming and editing my hunts. A lot of my hunting is done on public land all over lower Alabama, and I usually limit out with decent deer every year. If I had a camera, it would make the hunt more challenging.

I would like to kill a good buck at the house.
And enjoy the hunting camp with my FNL

Get one with my bow

This will be my 12th year hunting. I'm still waiting to kill an 8 pointer.

i would like to help both my kids kill there first deer, they go with me some but have never got an opportunity at a deer.

And hunt more with my dad, he was my first hunting buddy.

I know not everyone’s situation is the same but god blessed me with a Dad that taught me about the lord and took me and my brothers hunting every chance he got. He has never killed a deer of the caliber that y’all have and I would love to be with him if he ever does.

Planting the farm for the first time in years. Lots of bushhogging and work to do. If not done then land will require bulldozer to plant due to regrowth next year. If I get this done with my buddies it will be a really fun year to see boocoo deer. It will also allow me to just hunt from a chair and enjoy God's great outdoors!

Two goals:
1. Have fun.
2. Get a new personal best.

That 2nd goal may or may not happen but I think the first should.
I do need to actually shoot a deer this year. My wife’s best friend wants to cook in the Wild Game Cookoff. No hunters in her family and she needs a couple blackstraps for her recipe.