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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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Yeah, we helped pay for it. Are we out of the equation now?
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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My thoughts are same as Overland I hunt down there enough to make a judgement. Plenty of dishonest groups around there as well, It always depends on your neighbors.
Floor at the deer processor is typically full of small racked bucks. It might be saving some spikes but that is about it. Around the WMA a 2-3 year old will meet the antler restrictions so making it to 4-5 years is still almost an impossibility there are a lot of hunters.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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Not a fan of antler restrictions being imposed by the state. If a club wants to do it that's great but the way antler restrictions work ends up getting 2 -3 year old bucks shot, which are still immature deer.
I shot my share of youngins when I was a young hunter, but I grew outta that. I like to watch em cause they're entertaining when young bucks are chasin does. I've almost started laughing a few times over the years watching young bucks. Like watching teenage boys chasin tail. But I have a pile of those antlers in my basement, and I'm not looking to make it bigger. If I want some venison. I'll pop a doe.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: centralala]
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11/01/19 01:01 PM
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Additional regulations can be enacted by any county. Your county commission has the legal authority to add or amend game regulations.
My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: centralala]
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11/01/19 01:17 PM
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Thread from 2012 about the same topic - http://www.aldeer.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=288842According to it, the county antler restriction was about 4-5 years old in 2012 meaning it probably was approved in 2006 or so when the "Let's save our bucks with a 3-buck limit because no one needs more than three!" mandate was hammered in. But it says the WMA antler restriction was 10 years old, meaning Barbour WMA went on the restriction in about 2002 or so. Which means the county has had some kind of antler mandates for about or almost 20 years, initially pushed for by the residents there. How's the antler growth been in that time? Lot of mature breeders in the population and 150s and 160s coming out of the county? Not kidding, b/c I haven't kept up with it. Are the bucks bigger and more mature thanks to the regulations?
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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11/01/19 01:20 PM
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Not a fan of antler restrictions being imposed by the state. If a club wants to do it that's great but the way antler restrictions work ends up getting 2 -3 year old bucks shot, which are still immature deer.
I shot my share of youngins when I was a young hunter, but I grew outta that. I like to watch em cause they're entertaining when young bucks are chasin does. I've almost started laughing a few times over the years watching young bucks. Like watching teenage boys chasin tail. But I have a pile of those antlers in my basement, and I'm not looking to make it bigger. If I want some venison. I'll pop a doe. Barbour County's antler regulations were asked for by the residents, just like how the voters in Randolph County in the early 1990s got dog deer hunting ended by getting it on the ballot and voting to ban it. As for the WMAs, the state can do whatever it believes is best on them.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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11/01/19 01:28 PM
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How's the antler growth been in that time? Lot of mature breeders in the population and 150s and 160s coming out of the county? Not kidding, b/c I haven't kept up with it. Are the bucks bigger and more mature thanks to the regulations?
There have been some studs come out of Barbour but I think that's traditionally been the case even before the antler restrictions. The restrictions were put in place mainly as a result of there being a large presence of private landowners in the county and them getting tired of the folks leasing land blasting the hell out of everything. I'm not condoning either side of the argument here just stating what happened. The private landowners got together and voted the antler restrictions in to keep the "Florida hunters" and others from shooting up all the small bucks. I've got a good friend that takes care of the management area....I'll ask him next time we talk and see if anything has ever been done from a data standpoint. I know they have some good deer on the management area but again I think that's just about always been the case. More than likely if it did anything it increased the number of 3 year old bucks being killed. The ones that would have been killed as 1-2 years olds just lived a little longer. This may or may not have resulted in more bucks making it to maturity
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: centralala]
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I would say not really...all the antler restrictions have done is move the needle one year. There are more small racked bucks, yes. Next in line to take a bullet.
I don't consider it completely unsucessful but with the ability to shoot a "deer" at any time plenty of immature deer still get shot including many button bucks, etc.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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Glad it is in place and would hate to see it rescinded. To my knowledge it has not hurt those wanting to kill deer and has produced an upside for those of us that want a better opportunity at seeing a mature buck. Wish they would adopt it in Morgan County. Have you seen more mature bucks? Is there statistical data in the county to support the theory of more mature bucks with APRs or season limits? Anecdotal is fine. "Aw, you know if you don't shoot them they'll get older." Yep. Sounds good. But what do the processors or GameCheck show (even in GC's limited time) or the WMA info from Barbour WMA? Because after 20ish years, Barbour should be crawling with mature bucks in the 150+ range and younger, healthier bucks.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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How's the antler growth been in that time? Lot of mature breeders in the population and 150s and 160s coming out of the county? Not kidding, b/c I haven't kept up with it. Are the bucks bigger and more mature thanks to the regulations?
There have been some studs come out of Barbour but I think that's traditionally been the case even before the antler restrictions. The restrictions were put in place mainly as a result of there being a large presence of private landowners in the county and them getting tired of the folks leasing land blasting the hell out of everything. I'm not condoning either side of the argument here just stating what happened. The private landowners got together and voted the antler restrictions in to keep the "Florida hunters" and others from shooting up all the small bucks. I've got a good friend that takes care of the management area....I'll ask him next time we talk and see if anything has ever been done from a data standpoint. I know they have some good deer on the management area but again I think that's just about always been the case. More than likely if it did anything it increased the number of 3 year old bucks being killed. The ones that would have been killed as 1-2 years olds just lived a little longer. This may or may not have resulted in more bucks making it to maturity Thanks. I think it's a fascinating glance at the hunter-bucks-mandates situation.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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11/01/19 01:47 PM
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You guys do know that all of the harvest information for our WMA's is easily accessible online? The answer is a simple yes based on the collected data to Clem's question. More mature bucks being killed, less young ones taken, better age structure overall. Look at the data. There is a reason these antler restrictions are now in place at other WMA's like oakmulgee now, someone thinks it works and they have the data to back it up. FYI the "qdm" restrictions in Barbour started in 99-00 according to the data set. wma
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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11/01/19 01:54 PM
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You guys do know that all of the harvest information for our WMA's is easily accessible online? The answer is a simple yes based on the collected data to Clem's question. More mature bucks being killed, less young ones taken, better age structure overall. Look at the data. There is a reason these antler restrictions are now in place at other WMA's like oakmulgee now, someone thinks it works and they have the data to back it up. FYI the "qdm" restrictions in Barbour started in 99-00 according to the data set. wmaAt first glance I notice that 1) The restrictions have moved the needle just like stated from 1 year olds being killed to 2-3 year olds being killed. It doesn't give info for 5-6 year old though. That's what I'd be curious to see. Did it result in more mature bucks being killed or just move the same harvest up one age class?....2) I also notice there seems to be a big decline in hunter participation over the years...just sayin
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: Clem]
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11/01/19 03:20 PM
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Clem - Yes, since the change I have seen many more mature bucks than I did before the restrictions. Unfortunately, 150+ bucks aren't behind every tree, and no one ever thought they would be. As I mentioned in my original response, "my personal experience" so yes it is anecdotal. I do now remember that it was pushed for by Barbour County landowners and in the past decade I have not heard one landowner or hunter that I come in contact with complain about it.
As for the size of the bucks in my particular area, during that 20 year period, several factors changed. (1) Lots of row crop was converted to pines (2) deer population increased significantly (3) road/night hunting increased significantly. During the early 90's we had some sure enough bruisers come out of the area where I hunt, but you could sit in a stand for three days straight and only see two deer. We still have great deer that come out of the area, but a lot of the land if privately owned and a lot of folks don't talk about the big deer they have taken. We also have a strain of native AL deer which don't carry a lot of mass.
Last thing, our farm/club has been in existence for almost 50 years and we have kept detailed records since mid-90s. The number of large deer killed each year has increased over the past 20 and actually decreased as we have all become more selective.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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Cool. Thanks for your insights.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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You guys do know that all of the harvest information for our WMA's is easily accessible online? The answer is a simple yes based on the collected data to Clem's question. More mature bucks being killed, less young ones taken, better age structure overall. Look at the data. There is a reason these antler restrictions are now in place at other WMA's like oakmulgee now, someone thinks it works and they have the data to back it up. FYI the "qdm" restrictions in Barbour started in 99-00 according to the data set. wmaAt first glance I notice that 1) The restrictions have moved the needle just like stated from 1 year olds being killed to 2-3 year olds being killed. It doesn't give info for 5-6 year old though. That's what I'd be curious to see. Did it result in more mature bucks being killed or just move the same harvest up one age class?....2) I also notice there seems to be a big decline in hunter participation over the years...just sayin I don’t think there’s a reliable way to accurately age deer that are 3+. It’s all an educated guess.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: centralala]
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I lived in Clayton and went to school at Dixie Academy. This was late 60's and early 70's and remember some really big deer killed around peanut fields. What was big in my eyes then may not be so big to me now.
I don't remember the landowners asking for it but could have been. I remember it as the State doing it. If the State was doing it, I really don't care if the results were good or bad, just the facts. Thought it might bring out something to consider for others. The way I've always heard it, from the beginning, was "the hunters and people in Barbour County wanted this" and it was spurred by the county in Georgia that did it. You live down there, though, so you're in a better position to maybe clarify. I don't believe the DCNR just picked Barbour out of 67 counties and manded APRs there, though, without request-support from locals. Speaking of the Georgia county, does it pump out giant mature bucks and offer hunters a higher quality experience? They've had APRs for almost 30 years or more
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: centralala]
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11/01/19 07:21 PM
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OK, this is what I found:
Kenny Childree had witnessed first-hand the positive impact an antler restriction had on the deer herd at Barbour County Wildlife Management Area (WMA), and he was one of the leaders who pushed for similar regulations for the entire county.
That's my friend's dad....I used to hunt their land will Bill Gray back about 10 years ago before I started up my own club on some of their other family land.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: centralala]
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I have actually found some info from the biologist over this, Bill Gray. Long read. He throws out some really impressive numbers. The testing is over as of 2010 but the people of Barbour Co. were pleased enough to stay with it. I could see more counties wanting this if they were aware of all Bill Gray had to say. Example: They had a 500% reduction in harvest of 1.5 year old bucks and a 375% increase in 3.5 year old bucks. The number of man days required to harvest a 3.5 year old bucks was reduced significantly.
That all sounds great. Why hasn't it been published and publicized more? Just being the devils dvocate here... but if it were published and talked about more would the public believe the numbers were true or take the stance directly above?
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I have actually found some info from the biologist over this, Bill Gray. Long read. He throws out some really impressive numbers. The testing is over as of 2010 but the people of Barbour Co. were pleased enough to stay with it. I could see more counties wanting this if they were aware of all Bill Gray had to say. Example: They had a 500% reduction in harvest of 1.5 year old bucks and a 375% increase in 3.5 year old bucks. The number of man days required to harvest a 3.5 year old bucks was reduced significantly.
That all sounds great. Why hasn't it been published and publicized more? Just being the devils dvocate here... but if it were published and talked about more would the public believe the numbers were true or take the stance directly above? That's what happens when leadership has no credibility
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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I couldn’t care less. Just an observation that many wouldn’t believe anything put out by ADCNR. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t produce info but a lot of folks take your stance. You can look back what I've written in this thread to see I have no problems with the boots on the ground. I'll argue with the biologist/ GWs but will keep it on subject and not make it a personal attack. In the end we shake hands and walk away until next time. This "project" for the Biologist ended in 2010. For myself, I was a adamant supporter of all things DCNR. Then comes Chuck Sykes in 2012 (2 years after the end of the survey). He openly lies to the hunters (I'll let 2Dogs address that), appears to change from conservation of a resource to a business, makes personal attacks on landowners, senior citizens, handicapped, and active military, and has a "King over a bunch of peasants" attitude. Hes the boss and some (all??) in Montgomery follow him blindly. So, to answer your question, would I have accepted this info pre-Chuck Sykes?? ABSOLUTELY!! Accept it with Chuck Sykes? I would look where the biologist report had been altered in Montgomery to appease the King and be skeptical. How many others have my attitude?? I don't know. What I do know the working relationship between sportsmen and the DCNR is the lowest I've ever seen. What I do know is Sykes has torn down a working relationship between the DCNR and the people in a few years that took others a lifetime to build. The Game Check numbers has spoken volumes on this relationship instead of actual number of deer killed. So, would the people accept this data in 2010 from Bill Gray? I sure would have and that's all I can speak for. Heck, it's 2019, and since it's prior to 2012, I'm accepting it now.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
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I understand all that and so understand it’s the job of the DCNR to provide that information but if the DCNR spent 2,500 man hours to produce a “high quality” deer report would you believe the data that was reported or would you toss it aside as something that couldn’t be trusted?
Yes or no?
I’m just curious.
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That answers my question.
Unless things have changed 99% of information goes through or has to be approved by Montgomery.
To a finer point, knowing anything produced for widespread consumption has to be approved through Montgomery and we have established that you have no trust in that process, should the DCNR staff even bother with putting that kind of information together? Will it take a complete overhaul of Montgomery, meaning all the way down to district/program supervisors before you will take stock in anything produced by the DCNR?
Ultimately the Commissioner is in charge but he takes direction from the Governor. The governor takes heat from senators, congressmen, county/city officials and lobbyists.
Day to day DCNR operations are really handled by the Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs.
I guess my question is, how would you fix this? I mean real world answers. Not hire someone from ALDEER to clean house and take over. There’s a lot of moving parts and educational requirements to hold DCNR positions.
Where would you as a member of the hunting public suggest start to right the course.
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Nighthunter, let me give you an example. Let's just say for arguments sake, it is proposed to extend the deer season in the North some by 10 days. Montgomery wants it extended but the biologist are against because of their on the ground experience. It gets extended. In a situation like this I will ALWAYS side with the biologist and quite simply can't trust what Montgomery is doing with OUR resources. So, the biologist request goes through Montgomery but it is NOT what is put out to the sportsmen. We have to trust it all or trust nothing coming out of Montgomery. We can't pick and choose. I won’t discuss details but I was in on that conversation. Let just say I wasn’t pleased😉
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Additional regulations can be enacted by any county. Your county commission has the legal authority to add or amend game regulations. Duh hell???
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Goatkiller
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B'ham
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How bout this... Chucky needs to produce a report that says the more deer you shoot in a season... the less you have the following season.
As far as Barbour county's antler restrictions are concerned you save a spike by letting him walk and the next season it gets killed as a still immature deer it just has the beginnings of a decent rack.
That's about all there is to this whole thing.
Shoot small bucks and you won't have any big bucks. Ever. Don't shoot one.... and your neighbor will probably kill it for you as his/her 6th buck they have shot this season. Shoot a doe and have 2-3 less deer the next season and likely one less buck you will get to blast as a basket rack. Repeat the process.
Simple. Nobody should need a report to tell them what is common sense.
Chuck running around like a prick arguing over stuff... this is nothing more than a peeing match between someone who is about 100% Stupid and a whole lot of people (thousands) much more stupid than him.
Last edited by Goatkiller; 11/04/19 12:07 PM.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: hawndog]
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11/05/19 02:22 PM
11/05/19 02:22 PM
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Remington270
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,751
USA
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Restrictions on bucks only means more people will shoot does. More does killed means less deer. Less deer means less bucks You won't convince anyone of this, I assure you. It's been gospel for 30+ years now. "Killing does is good."
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: NightHunter]
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11/05/19 02:23 PM
11/05/19 02:23 PM
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mman
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That answers my question.
Unless things have changed 99% of information goes through or has to be approved by Montgomery.
To a finer point, knowing anything produced for widespread consumption has to be approved through Montgomery and we have established that you have no trust in that process, should the DCNR staff even bother with putting that kind of information together? Will it take a complete overhaul of Montgomery, meaning all the way down to district/program supervisors before you will take stock in anything produced by the DCNR?
Ultimately the Commissioner is in charge but he takes direction from the Governor. The governor takes heat from senators, congressmen, county/city officials and lobbyists.
Day to day DCNR operations are really handled by the Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs.
I guess my question is, how would you fix this? I mean real world answers. Not hire someone from ALDEER to clean house and take over. There’s a lot of moving parts and educational requirements to hold DCNR positions.
Where would you as a member of the hunting public suggest start to right the course.
I would be more apt to believe raw numbers and draw my own conclusions than what I read in a report. The only way I know to fix trust issues is total honesty over a long period of time, period.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: Coosa1]
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11/05/19 02:25 PM
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Remington270
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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USA
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Unpopular opinion but it's mine so I'll voice it. I wish the state would go back to two weeks of doe days and set antler restrictions for the entire state. I'm tired of having to drive hours to find a decent population of deer to hunt. Damn coosa county rednecks shoot everything that moves and brag about killing all three of their bucks a year that might have a total of 50" of bone between all three of them.
Oh and get rid of that damn baiting bill while they're at it too! You have to drive hours from Coosa County? Drive south or southeast just a little bit and you've got the best hunting in the state. It may not be in your literal back yard, but it's not like you're in Marshall county or something.
Last edited by Remington270; 11/05/19 02:25 PM.
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Re: Barbour Co. experiment??
[Re: Coosa1]
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11/05/19 10:17 PM
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joshm28
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Joined: Dec 2009
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Jasper, AL
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Unpopular opinion but it's mine so I'll voice it. I wish the state would go back to two weeks of doe days and set antler restrictions for the entire state. I'm tired of having to drive hours to find a decent population of deer to hunt. Damn coosa county rednecks shoot everything that moves and brag about killing all three of their bucks a year that might have a total of 50" of bone between all three of them.
Oh and get rid of that damn baiting bill while they're at it too! It’s not as unpopular as you think. In the part of Fayette County I hunt I would love a much reduced doe season. (We have only killed 2 in 5 years on our lease. Our population, this year, is actually really good. Just 2-3 years of reducing doe days would make a huge difference in some parts of the state
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