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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: DeerNutz0U812_] #2741295
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Originally Posted by DeerNutz0U812_
When you start hunting for you and your enjoyment and not worry about crap you cant control youll prolly start killing better Deer and have a more enjoyable experience...02


I do hunt for my own enjoyment. For me to enjoy my hunting experience it requires seeing deer when I go hunting the more I see the more I enjoy it. To enjoy it more than that requires me to kill a mature buck 4 years old and up the more that buck scores the more I enjoy it. It is that simple.


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: mike35549] #2741347
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Originally Posted by mike35549
Originally Posted by DeerNutz0U812_
When you start hunting for you and your enjoyment and not worry about crap you cant control youll prolly start killing better Deer and have a more enjoyable experience...02


I do hunt for my own enjoyment. For me to enjoy my hunting experience it requires seeing deer when I go hunting the more I see the more I enjoy it. To enjoy it more than that requires me to kill a mature buck 4 years old and up the more that buck scores the more I enjoy it. It is that simple.


Insert standing slow clap ovation.


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2742001
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You see. Some people don't even appreciate it when try and fight for them. I am on the hunter's side. Whose side are you on ? When we push for change and we disaprove of of things like high lease prices ,etc. We are taking a stand for our hunting. Its not about just wanting to bitch. You need to be thankful for the work people like Warren Strickland and others have done to implement changes in our deer hunting. He fought for us when the State was telling every hunter to go out there and kill every dam thing that that moved. A buck and a doe a day ! What some freaking Idiots ! And there were hunters who balled over that like a baby with a pacifier yanked out of his mouth ! Well its not perfect but Warren Strictland and others aided in stopping that BS. And I know we hunters can't control everything but we can do a lot. But we got to get on the same page. You can't be saying dumb crap like "What's your point" etc. Some of you guys have had my back in these forums and I appreciate it. Changes never come from people who want take a stand. Heck. Put up some kinda fight. Might lose but count me in !

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2742160
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Lease prices go up because supply and demand, the out of state hunters pay it ! It has nothing to do with the Alabama hunters. Travel the state in mid to late January and notice the Florida, Georgia, Louisiana license plates. I know of 3 leases right now that are Florida/ Louisiana hunters exclusively. They told me that they would pay 18-25 per acre if they had to. You see, the people that "own" the land doesn't care who leases the land, they only care who pays the most. SOOO, if us Alabama hunters "demand" something be done about lease prices, they will just lease to the out of state guys who are willing to pay it. Simple as that. JMO.

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2742174
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This is a good thread started by Racksrus.
Good discussion and provocative.

I especially liked BigBores comments about evolving into the Conservationist/Land Manager type.
Which is what Ron and BigBore were also saying. Letting bucks get age on them.

Mike and TheFive made good comments about managing expectations.

Putting this altogether it seems to me that still to this day, most hunters and lessees are still not managing people and managing the land.
I think it takes more then putting in some food plots.

While this might be hard to do for various reasons, the land itself needs to be improved to be good deer habitat.
With lots of ground cover and natural ground food.

Fire.
Lots of fire.
As much as possible will help this.
I think this is the single best thing to do.

Also, strategic timber cutting to get more sunlight to the ground and increase ground story.

And just don't shoot 1s and 2s.
And if you can help it, don't shoot 3s either.
That is where it gets tricky for most hunting clubs.
And really most hunters.

That is about all that can be done, other then trying to encourage surrounding properties to do the same thing.


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2742190
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The biggest problem, IMO, is people wanting to push the way they hunt and what they harvest on everyone else.

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: blumsden] #2742202
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Originally Posted by blumsden
The biggest problem, IMO, is people wanting to push the way they hunt and what they harvest on everyone else.


thumbup I value my freedoms way more than giving the government more control over deer hunting.

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: jhardy] #2742254
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Originally Posted by jhardy
Originally Posted by blumsden
The biggest problem, IMO, is people wanting to push the way they hunt and what they harvest on everyone else.


thumbup I value my freedoms way more than giving the government more control over deer hunting.


Well, the subject of this thread started by Racksrus is hunter satisfaction and high lease prices.
And people were complaining about low deer sightings, lease costs keep going up, few big buck opportunities, etc.

So everyone was commenting on that.
And making suggestions about what could be done to improve those things.
Without government involvement.
Although I would say that I think that a doe a day is uncalled for and counter-productive.


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: therealhojo] #2742349
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Originally Posted by therealhojo

Now if you factor into time that you spend getting outdoors and use that for determination of money spent. Taking your family if that's their thing. Just pure enjoyment, it's hard to put a price on that. My #1 passion is tractor time. I love playing on my dozier, skidsteer, mini -x and tractors. That's where I find my peace these days. I cannot put a dollar value on that.

So as long as I get to use my toys and see my friends and family at this point in my life every deer season is a success.


X2. Good stuff hojo.

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2742356
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By god I believe everyone should think like me because I want them to and I want to kill trophies by god. Enough is enough!!!!!!


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: WmHunter] #2742639
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Originally Posted by WmHunter
Originally Posted by jhardy
Originally Posted by blumsden
The biggest problem, IMO, is people wanting to push the way they hunt and what they harvest on everyone else.


thumbup I value my freedoms way more than giving the government more control over deer hunting.


Well, the subject of this thread started by Racksrus is hunter satisfaction and high lease prices.
And people were complaining about low deer sightings, lease costs keep going up, few big buck opportunities, etc.

So everyone was commenting on that.
And making suggestions about what could be done to improve those things.
Without government involvement.
Although I would say that I think that a doe a day is uncalled for and counter-productive.




Nothing can be done to improve it on a large scale without government intervention. They tried no government intervention and virtually all the deer got killed.


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2743323
02/20/19 02:20 PM
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Mike, so I think you may agree that one possible solution, not complete solution but something positive to do, is to limit doe harvest?
Eliminate the doe a day rule?


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2743348
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Yep, Leases are pricey in the BlackBelt, but well worth the price for the enjoyment it gives me.

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: mike35549] #2743383
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Originally Posted by mike35549
Originally Posted by WmHunter
Originally Posted by jhardy
Originally Posted by blumsden
The biggest problem, IMO, is people wanting to push the way they hunt and what they harvest on everyone else.


thumbup I value my freedoms way more than giving the government more control over deer hunting.


Well, the subject of this thread started by Racksrus is hunter satisfaction and high lease prices.
And people were complaining about low deer sightings, lease costs keep going up, few big buck opportunities, etc.

So everyone was commenting on that.
And making suggestions about what could be done to improve those things.
Without government involvement.
Although I would say that I think that a doe a day is uncalled for and counter-productive.




Nothing can be done to improve it on a large scale without government intervention. They tried no government intervention and virtually all the deer got killed.


Says the gentleman that has his location as land of the free because of the brave. Thank God they were brave and didn't want government intervention to handle it for them.

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Emuckfwa] #2743647
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Originally Posted by Emuckfwa
Yep, Leases are pricey in the BlackBelt, but well worth the price for the enjoyment it gives me.


X2

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: WmHunter] #2743713
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Originally Posted by WmHunter
Mike, so I think you may agree that one possible solution, not complete solution but something positive to do, is to limit doe harvest?
Eliminate the doe a day rule?


Yes if the objective is to increase the deer herd. To only way to have more bucks and more does is to have more does having babies. The only way to do that is to decrease the amount of does that can be killed. The only way that will happen is for the state to decrease the amount of days a doe can be legally killed. A number of does won't work cause people will just print another paper and keep shooting like they do now with the 3 buck limit.


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2743746
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The people that have and still do sacrifice there lives and there time to keep this country free has nothing to do with the regulations enacted to protect wildlife resources and everything to do with your right to bear arms so you are able to enjoy the resource that is available because of the regulations. It is a fact that people can not regulate thereselves when it comes to hunting without exploiting the resource. If they could have done that there never would have been a need for the regulations in the first place.


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Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2743769
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Several things are true as far as the current state of hunting in Alabama.
A. The DCNR is NOT going to make any adjustments to the doe harvest no matter what data is reported on game check. It's too big of a selling point for leasers and license purchases.
B. Land lease prices are going to continue to increase every year, and there is nothing hunters can do about it.
C. The amount of available land to lease is going to get smaller and smaller and smaller every year, and hunters can't do anything to change that.
D. Habitat change and hardwood removal will continue, probably at an accelerated pace as long as the economy is booming, and there is nothing hunters can do about it.
E. With the smaller amount of land, much smaller amount of deer, the hunting experience that we had in the 90's and early 2000's is gone, probably forever, and there isn't much we can do to get it back without a wholesale change.

I spent 4 hours in a stand for 3 season prior to this one. I sort of missed hunting and decided to start back this year. I killed one pretty good 4 year old, and let 3 other good deer walk. One of the 3 I would shoot if I had a do over, but at least I saw deer, and to me, that is what matters. I was so disgusted with what hunting had become that I didn't want to even be around it for 3 years. I don't care if somebody shoots a spike, a 4pt, or a 2 year old 8pt. I do not care, but watching doe after doe, after doe, fawn after fawn after button head killed just because it's ''legal'' was enough for me to not want to be around it. I hunted 8 mornings and 3 afternoons all season, and only had 1 day that I saw double digit deer, and that day I saw 11. That is not good, I don't care what any biologist says. The experience to me is seeing deer, and I know for a fact the quantity of deer in most of the places I've hunted in the last 15 years is low, and I mean low. Maybe it's coyotes, maybe it's hardwood removal, maybe is CWD, Ebola, or Salmonela, Herpes, or HIV, I honestly don't know, but what I do know is that when point A above became the gold standard for the DCNR biologist, hunting went to S_________T.

Re: The State of the State of our deer hunting [Re: Racksrus] #2745319
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The state of deer hunting in AL is pathetic. I can cross the state line into GA and see 75 deer in a 8 mile stretch. It would take me 2-3 years to see that in AL. The state says deer numbers are up and that we need to kill more. They say turkeys numbers are down and we need to kill less. They are clueless. I’m seeing more turkeys in AL that I ever have !!

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Originally Posted by rulebreaker
Cry babies, cry babies, cry babies, waa, waa, waa,...

By god I believe everyone should think like me because I want them to and I want to kill trophies by god. Enough is enough!!!!!!


I manage for mature bucks and we dont shoot anything we are not going to mount. I picked up 200 acres adjoining me this year and I paid the landowner $3 more per acre than what it was actually worth. I didn't offer the higher price but that's what the landowner said he had to have. I did it to keep some yahoo from picking up that little 200 acre piece and putting out a couple corn piles and killing 5 or 6 of the good 2 and 3 year old bucks that we are letting grow. I dang sure didnt need the additional acreage but it was worth it to us to overpay, by $600 on that particular piece, just to get the previous corn hunting, shoot anything group gone and to keep someone else from coming in and negatively impacting what we and our other 3 large landholding neighbors are trying to do. I wouldn't care if the neighbor guy killed a few young bucks here or there but when the 3 of them are shooting every basket rack 6 or 8 they see (8-10 and prob more each year) along with any doe that stands still long enough to get shot, and then every deer we kill on that side of our place is chock full of corn, my good neighbors and I can fix that problem.

It sucks for sure but more and more people are doing it and it is becoming the norm. The shoot everything crowd says they dont want to trophy hunt but they would be the first ones to ride a trophy all over town in their truck bragging about it if they did manage to kill a good one. It is my opinion that most dont manage or trophy hunt because they cannot afford to tie up large parcels and the expense that comes with managing the land and wildlife and I understand that. They make comments like " rich guys a ruining deer hunting". Maybe they should take a step back and look in the mirror. There is always someone with more money and willing to pay it no matter how wealthy or poor your group may be. People complain about lease prices and I completely understand and hate the current high rates/acre but the shoot anything group is hurting themselves as much or more than anything else.

Guys that control large acreages and have the money to do it are not going to just sit back and let a bunch of "shoot every buck they see" guys surround their highly managed properties and kill all the deer they are passing. It ends up creating a bad situation of limited opportunity for the guys that just want to hunt, but when the shoot everything guy doing what he wants to do, starts to prohibit mgmt guys from doing what they want and are trying to do, someone will always end up as the odd man out. It doesn't have to be that way. The unfortunate thing is that if the shoot anything guys would just back off on all the killing, just a little bit, they might have some great opportunities to enjoy some prime hunting that they otherwise might not be able afford, due to the sometimes prohibitive cost of obtaining a managing a 2000-5000 acre lease. A lot of people don't know or have access to 10-15 like minded guys to go in with them on a big lease. They could piggyback off the larger landowners mgmt efforts and enjoy the same quality of hunting on these smaller, more affordable 100 and 200 acre parcels, but to do so, they would/will have to adjust their mindset to fit in. I certainly don't mind a guy killing a young buck if that floats his boat but IMO there's no valid reason to try to kill every rack buck you see.

This is just my opinion but I can promise you that I honestly think that I could take a shoot anything guy, that is used to hunting small un-managed property and seeing maybe 2 or 3 young rack bucks a year and killing them all, for a couple weekends in a row on my place and sit with him and allow him to see multiple 3 yr old rack bucks (in all probability, bigger bucks than he has ever killed) feeding in a field in the broad daylight and Id' be willing to bet after seeing what is possible with just a little restraint, I could convert him and he would agree to get on our program and I could let him have that 200 acres and he'd end up being a good neighbor. IMO, the problem is that most people have not experienced hunting on a well managed property where it is really easy to see multiple 1-3yr or even 4 yr old bucks on a regular basis. It seems unattainable for them and it will continue to be as long as they maintain their I'm gonna kill 20 deer a year attitude.

And before someone brings it up, kids get multiple free passes on bucks as they work their way up to the same shooting standards that the adults have. You cant expect a young kid, who's only killed a few does, to pass up 100-110" 2 and 3 yr old 8 points while waiting on a 5 yr old and we dont make them. Like I said, my problem is not with guys killing young bucks. I'm happy for them if that floats their boat. It's with those that "have" to kill every buck they see. My other peeve is all the corn hunting, not supplemental feeding, but corn hunting that goes on in this state. It's a game violation that everyone has done for so long that it has become commonplace and accepted practice.

There's got to be come common ground somewhere but everyone is too selfish to find it without a bunch of state imposed rules. HAlf the state wants to kill every deer they see and the other half wants to protect all the younger bucks. We are our own worst enemies. GA has two whole counties that are trophy managed. When it was first proposed, there was a huge backlash from the shoot any buck crowd. Now those same guys are the biggest proponents of letting young deer walk and everyone, large landowners and small, are reaping the benefits of quality herd management and loving it. But they absolutely squalled like babies and were kicking and screaming those first couple years. Look up Dooley and Macon counties and what they've done. By the way, GA has a 2 buck and 10 doe limit. Statewide, no exceptions. The length of their firearms season is similar to ours with the only difference being you can only kill 12 deer a year total in GA whereas you can kill 121 in Bama. Go figure why our hunting is suffering. And for the record I'm not for making entire counties trophy mnanaged. While it would help what we are trying to do mgmt wise, It infringes on others rights and that's not right either. I don't know what the answer is.

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