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Sick’em Boys!!

I don't do facebook but sure would love to tonight, might be interesting.

Keep us non FB posted. Looks fun

I might actually have to learn FB if they keep this up.

For what? For working their asses off everyday for betterment of the states deer heard so that us hunters can enjoy hunting this resource that belongs to all of us?

Glad to see them doing this.

People have said the need to communicate more with the public. They've had more meetings this year and now are doing this via social media. Looks like they're getting pretty good response, too, although some of the questions clearly show there's some ignorant folks out there.

why they hell wouldn't they do that here . skinny was willing to give they the whole damn floor to speak from and they ran away .

why i wish it was here . i know at least one of them is smart enough and hide thick enough to deal with us .

We're more educated about a lot of this stuff than some of those folks on FB. Plus FB has 40'leben brazillion people - more potential reach - and there's just 13'leben brazillion on here. Our deal is we're too opinionated.

No control, probably. Is it still going on? I couldn't get it towork.

I commented that the lady in there had something on her nose then she went to wiping it 😂😂😂

49er was on there.

Brandon Butler 100 yrds and out of sight is 100 yrds and out of sight. Sounds like they are nit picking

MTeauge asked them define the above.

Derrick Rattler Teague Are you gonna ask about my CWD question? Why are y’all blowing this up if no deer has ever died from CWD?

Eddie Maxwell Check the commissioner's Regulation Book on his website. The is NO harvest record in it.

Dwight Adams Question why is it that a Hunter can not hunt over bait . But game wardens can hunt over bait in the name of research ? I do know for fact they do cause for the past 3 years they have hunted the next door club land where they got big feeders at their green fields. In March.

Cory Crane Can you harvest a bonus buck on any management area?

Danny Taylor Can you talk about the states cwd plan since the plan is proven in other states not to work by killing mass amounts of healthy deer?

Todd Nix How many hunters are there in 2018 versus 1970 in Alabama ?

Randy White What is the distance you can hunt from a corn feeder?

Replying to Randy
Lamar Carter 100 yrds and out of site

William Beadlescomb I'd like to know where the money goes from timber harvest on our national forest land

Jennifer Cromer Huie Is corn going to legalized ?

Heath Watson If you know anything about CWD you would never want baiting to be legalized

Pj Turbeville Can we make a plot on managent land

Cj O'Dell Why hasn’t corn been legalized?

John Sims Are Mountain Lions considered active in Alabama, if one were shot what would happen??

Eddie Maxwell You legalized salt, so who not legalize corn? They're both forbidden by law.

Chas Hawthorne We have seen a tremendous improvement in the counties that have went to a QDM(Such as Barbour County) why not go across the state of Alabama with QDM so we can start growing bigger deer like the Midwest states

Replying to Pj
Jeremy Doss No, PJ, you can not plant anything on management land.

Clay N Paige Winn Have you thought about putting a bounty on coyotes?

Replying to Derrick
Lamar Carter 100 yrds and out of site read the book

Lonnie Miller Why are the bird watchers, hikers, boaters and other recreational users not required to pay to utilize the natural resources?

Lee Martin Nonresident hunters are more interested in trophy hunting if something isnt done in ala soon on allowing young bucks to make it to 3+ years there gonna resort to other states like Mississippi.

Steven Edwards How much will it cost if I get caught hunting without a license

George Hardeman Are you stopping people on the road checking coolers

Chas Hawthorne We have seen a huge improvement in the quality of deer being killed in QDM Counties such as Barbour County is it possible the state will go QDM statewide so we can improve the quality of bucks such as the Midwest states, why has this not happened?

Cody Everett If you kill a deer way back on wildlife management area can you get your atv to get it later that night?

Well, if those faces don't instill confidence in your government, nothing will.

That guy on the far left is about to pass out

I don’t know why they would do it here or on Facebook honestly. There are so many who try to derail and degrade everything they do here and elsewhere that I would tell them to read the book and deal with it. The same ones run around wondering why no one wants to help them.

Yep.

if they want to , get in touch with the hunters . here's the place !!!!!!!

when a discussion turns to a argument all he got to do is ignore and move on .i believe we have some already here dcnr just won't turn them loose .

They’ve tried, you have a handful know it alls who try their best to run them off.

Terry Jones If I hit a deer with my vehicle will it count against my limit?

Nick Abram Does a beanie or toboggan meet hunters orange requirements. I know that a hat has to have a full orange brim but a beanie doesn’t have one?

Derrick Rattler Teague How about we start having a fall turkey season and allowing us to kill hens

Micah Beard All of the deer processors and taxidermist in the state just lost a lot of business, many will go out of business

Lee Gable 5th time, why can't we use digital maps for WMA'S since we can use digital licensing and digital game check!!!!!!!!!!!

Blake Napper Will the state ever do something about uprising bear problems???

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Jerry Vickery If you shoot a deer that is locked horns with anther deer, do you have to tag both deer?

Kathy Elliott Can Alabama reconsider the laws on possession and rehabilitation of raccoons in Alabama?

Chuck Calfee Is a person allowed to carry a pistol while bowhunting during bow only season?

Replying to Chuck
Tim Locke Yes as long as you have a concealed carry permit

Jubal Sackett WOW.... 90% of these posts shows what kind of situation we’re in. Sad.

What was that about processors losing business??

The stuff swampy is posting above is exactly why they don’t want to do it, Hunter’s are their own worst enemy. You have folks trying to answer questions probably on their own time and you have idiots trying to derail it all.

My gosh. The abject ignorance and stupidity is unbelieveable.

There's some real dumbasses out there

I was gonna say somethin similar but didn't feel like typing lol

I just tried to explain this to Nighthunter on the CWD thread. Y'all are use to Aldeer and I've been saying for years Aldeer is not the average Al. hunter. THIS is the average Alabama hunter.

I'm convinced the average Alabamian is a total moron, and many if them also hunt.

but if the books makes no sense then what . i understand your point though .

Avg alabama Hunter ain't got Facebook neither do i...

I think I’m am now scared to be in the woods. The amount of dumb people hunting is shocking. 90% of the questions asked are answered in the yearly guide the state puts out every year. Good luck this year and stay safe.

Eddie Maxwell Since pure white salt is considered by the agency to be legal to use as an aid in hunting as well as Trophy Rock brand salt, is pure white corn considered legal as well or any particular brand of corn like Trophy Corn etc? Both are forbidden by law.

Are these questions for real?? If so....help us all sweet baby Jesus....

yes, they are real

I wanta rehabilitate some coons! I'm gonna nurse them with Z traps .

FB is where the new gen goes today. And with FB live, it makes perfect sense to use that media outlet.

lol i just went back up and read the question , oh my my

Lot's of truth in your statement. Kudos to you!

Derrick Rattler Teague Are y’all gonna answer my question or over look it

Derrick Rattler Teague Thanks for overlooking my QUESTION

I'm gonna rehabilitate them little rodents with a dose of lead!

They gonna ban him too

That's not exactly true. Instagram and SnapChat are the new kids. FB is mostly the over 50 crowd, or so the analytics say.

That means I'm totally out of touch.

Today's younger generation doesn't use Facebook. They think it's stupid and is for old people. That bears out in surveys by social media outlets, with most FB users being age 40 and older along with significant declines in usage by young people.

"Kids" today - those being teens to post-college graduates - are more into Instagram (which is being ruined by Facebook, its owner), Snapchat and Twitter (not as much, tho). They also don't use email as much, unless needed for work, and prefer to text.

Could they have a question and answer forum here where when they answer officially the thread locks? At least we could get their official position.

Guess I'm outta touch too. Good!

What Brandon said.

Truth

Lot of dumb questions and mostly to derail. They could get people who look like they want to be there.

YouTube is HUGE with that crowd as well.

skinny tried to have a rep here , matt and nighthunter , couple others are here but not in a official way . as to my understanding ?

Here you reach Alabama hunters 365 days a year. On Facebook, the average Alabama hunter has just started thinking about deer and will end on Feb 10 and not think about it again until Nov.

I watched a Q&A about Kubota on RFD Tv a few years ago. "Live". Those two guys looked like deer in the headlights with some of the questions. They eventually got to some good questions and good answers.

Gotcha. I know skinny has tried multiple times. Banging his head against the wall it appears. Also, if I were Jeremy and Matt danged if I would reply with the nonsense they put up with.

Kind of like the respect factor you and I talked about earlier.

No one said they couldn't do anything on here, YouTube or elsewhere. It's not like they picked one out of a hat and said no to the rest of them. FB is a start.

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True, true. I forgot about YouTube.

IF you have a good video production staff and IF you have a host who can speak clearly without sounding like a weirdo and IF you can keep the videos to a short timeframe then you may be able to achieve some impact with them.

If you try to have some kind of DeMille or Spielberg mentality and want fancy intros and music and some kind of Academy Award-winning production in videos lasting 7 or 8 minutes then you're going to get nada.

The problem lies, as YEKUT said, when Matt or Jeremy come here to try and explain things they are ridiculed, talked down to and told they do not know what they are taking about because they are young and stupid. Why expose yourself to that? Hell, even I've been questioned bout my identity --by some.

Well, you're a hotel chain so WTH do you know about deer?

Learned that over the past few years. The time frame being the biggest obstacle. You better get to the point quick or it's on to the next video.

It closed down, I think.

That was funny

I don't think rattler teague got the memo about only asking deer hunting related questions

couple of smart guys for sure though .

I actually got the nickname from a college buddy about Howard Johnson, the baseball player. I think that was the only Howard he knew and we were making intramural football jerseys and needed a name for the back. The name HOJO stuck. "the" came because HOJO is almost always taken on boards. I'm not very complicated.

I’ll just assume there will be no fall turkey season and we can’t shoot hens

Lmao

thats was a big one for me . with ever thing that kills turkeys we need every hen . lol

Poorcountrypreacher might ban him from church for that one.

Several of them have been banned from here lol

lol he should

I envy some of those people. I think life would be a lot easier if I were that stupid.

No, sinners need to be in church, and shooting a hen is a really big one

Amen, brother. Amen.

Yep, such a happy , fun loving group.

So many idiots on facebook. It's endless.

I had a guy correct me in regards to using cememtums rings in teeth to age deer. I kind of blew him off and asked for a link. He provided a link which showed I was incorrect. Looked up the dude as I had no idea who he was; Former Directory Tn department of Fish and wildlife. Lol. You just never know who your talking too.

I'd a 1000 times rather have a fall turkey season then spring. It would be so cool to have wild turkey for thanksgiving. That would be awesome!

I’m North Alabama we have these machines called freezers. Throw that spring bird in there and it’s as hard a brick bat when you take it out in November to cook it. Damndest thing I’ve ever seen.

there are counties that still have a fall season i believe ??????? see if you can find public land and try it out .

Damnit you beat me to it

turkeys have a hard time making it to be grown . i just could not ever agree to killing hens here .

Maybe "new gen" is a bad term (not meant to describe young folks), maybe FB is "more used" vs tv, radio. At least they had 24K views. I guess you can have real-time Q&A on instagram and snapchat?

Hunted boocoo species. Elk in wilderness area, ducks, deer , gator, hell I will throw sharks in. The only hunting that bored me was spring turkey. Kilt plenty. I would much rather fall hunt a turkey on the family farm a couple days before thanksgiving and have our family enjoy it. We all enjoy different ways and types of hunting. If you dont go over season bag limit why should anyone care if it was killed in fall or spring?

lol if they gave every county a fall season you bet the limit will drop .

Thats why folks dont want fall season. They dont want to give up their 5 bird limit. I would like to take just one bird at Thanksgiving or perhaps Christmas. Thats the difficulty the DCNR has in making, keeping or changing regulations. Doing what is best for species management but also satisfying or giving opportunity to different user groups. They have a tough job#

They say ignorance is bliss, but I'm not sure if that also applies to stupid.

See, I think that's the sum of the whole problem. Satisfying any group, of people, shouldn't really be a consideration when your job is to manage the resources.

I say you pay taxes on your private land you do as you want. Regardless. But public land you go by state or fed law. I hate being told what to do on my own land

But the wildlife (resource) isn't yours. That's why there has to be some governance over private land.

I believe that is Chris Cook, one of the biologists.

yeap i agree 100%

Wealth of knowledge in Mr. Cook.

uhmmmmmm you know ,,,,, i wouldn't throw rocks at the gal on the right she just might be interesting . lol

WTH.

Guy in the middle looks confused, or maybe he needs to go take a POOP

He's probably asking himself why the heck any idiot wants to rehabilitate a coon.

He’s probably trying to figure out how many deer have died from CWD, should we have a fall turkey season and shoot hens, why are mineral and salt licks leagal but not white corn, or what to do if someone shoots a mountain lion

I couldn't have said it any better!

This is another subject because of my beliefs (landowners rights) that i remain neutral on. It has been explained to me several times but not in a way that I can come to grips with. So: How can a captive deer that is for private use only, limited in their travels to prevent public use (high fence), be considered a public resource?

My comment was in reference to wildlife, not domestic pets, or genetic mutations. Im in agreement with you on that subject. Once the high fence goes up, there is no longer wildlife and the fence owner should be 100% accountable for whatever happens, good or bad.

So you no longer consider them wildlife once fenced. I understand that and that should be the way it is.

Then comes the question about DCNR spending time and money on them?

I would take a step further, and require the fence owner to count every wild animal to be entrapped and pay the neighboring property owners (because they are the ones who are most directly affected) for the loss of those resources.

Were they eastern birds? Alabama? I would say you're in the minority, but to each his own. More for me!

I forgot about this... I will say folks had the opportunity to ask questions to one of the brightest deer minds in our part of the country. Ol Cook is as sharp as they come.

He is. He's the only person to acknowledge there were deer in areas in Jackson Co. with native genes. I was talking with him a few years ago , he asked where I hunted , after telling him he said did you know your deer likely have native genes. Heard old timers say there were a few in the area , but never a biologist.

And always very helpful every time I've talked with him.