I was talking to an equipment operator on a job today. He lives near Rehobeth in Gees Bend. ((This would be one of James' neighbours) I asked him if he was doing any good deer hunting? He said he hadn’t killed as many this year as he had been. He said he had only killed 48! Said he had usually been killing around 70 and selling them the last few years. He said the Lord had spoken to him and told him that it was wrong to kill and sale the deer.

He only kills one now when some one asks for a deer.

Makes you wonder why the deer population is in a decline in some areas!

Sounds like his ass ought to be in jail

How the hail is that even possible

How much would you pay for a deer?

Not sure about how it is in Alabama but in Florida I think it is illegal to sell deer. If that is true he must be killing 3 or 4 every time he goes.

Wow thats nuts!

Got near me sold a heap of em to Mexicans for $25. They come get em and pay him. I tried like hell to get him caught and finally did. Hooked his sorry pos ass up.

Dang. $25. Why so cheap? costs me at least $45 a head to grow em with this new bait bill and all

He must be a dam deer whisperer

Good for him. Wish I saw deer like that

Nah, it can be done.

Good lord Dw that guy was selling them cheap. Old friend of mine that was a bad pot head at the time now meth head use to quit work every year when season came in. He hunted every day and sold them Mexicans for $75 he got $100 if he didn’t gut them. We hunted with him one weekend and he killed one on Friday and it still had guts in it Sunday when he went home.

Yep, good lights and corn and get 1 a day

I killed 32 does my senior year in high school cause we’d were managing population on a few places in Dallas co. It was work. Piss on that. I think I’d just quit hunting a deer today. I about have anyway. It’s boring. You shoot that many that often I’m out.

Does he wear THP gear and mom lift weights?

My Grandpa said back in the 90s (or whenever it was when they started allowing 2 does a day and 1 buck a day.) It was nothing for him to kill 20 deer a season I think he said the most he killed in one year was 30. He was lucky to hunt some pretty good land also.

I'm betting that most of those deer were shot with the aid of a spotlight.

I think I could kill 40 or 50 if I had to but I think it would get hard to do after the first year. You could put a big dent in the population in a hurry killing that many deer

I can't imagine being THAT mad at them. I shot 6-7 per year for several years and that was plenty.

The Lord and the federales. His ass should be in jail.

In the late 80’s and early 90’s my grandpa would kill 50+ a year. Of course he was hunting ga and Alabama

You’d be surprised. We were prodded as a band of killers in my area and at 16-17 years old we indulged.

There was a fella around here night hunting killing 50 or so every year, word was he was selling them to processors for $30ea. Some folks tried to get him busted to no avail.

I lol’d

Red light and a corn feeder on 3 different places, ..22 hornet to the head, pick up the phone and call Jose, Jose come pick em up. He never touched em.

Between my Dad and I - we killed 13 one year and thought we did great; giving a bunch to family. I guess we weren’t as good as we thought.

I could put a hurting on them back in the day. A pocket full of doe tags and all the shells my dad could buy.

Yessir

I killed 12 in a weekend on a deer permit...it gets kinda senseless after a while but my friend was happy as they were putting a hurt on the cotton.

This State is FULL of Redneck dumbasses that still think killing a lot of deer makes you more of a man! If I wanted, I could have killed way over 100 deer this year. Killing deer is easy if that is your goal. Managing for mature deer and conserving what God has given to us takes a lot more work and intelligence!

I was at my processor last week and some A-hole had dropped off 2 button heads!! Told the processor that he was trying to fill the freezer........WHAT A DUMBASS! These deer probably weighed 30 pounds each. Yeah man, fill that freezer with all 7 pounds of deer meat that come off those deer!

Doubt seriously if the guy was selling meat he was real worried about whether season was in or not

It's also legal to kill spotted fawns just sayin

The natives will (when they want a deer) kill em year round, and shoot 'em during bow season (why i stopped up there) and nobody does squat about.......

I’d say that guy could blow up a onion sack. Lol. Bets he fishes too

With the ridiculous doe days we have on private land, one could legally kill three bucks and 80 does for a total of 83 a year.

When I was poor, I fed my family all year with what I harvested during the season. It was a lot some years and most were killed with a second hand 12 gauge pump shotgun with a bead sight. My highest year was 22 and we ate every one of them.

Y'all may have missed the part where he described the guy as an equipment operator. I suspect that meant he works on a logging crew. That means he may be killing them on SEVERAL different properties during the year.

Do you hunt within 75 miles of Alberta on Hwy 5? Has your lease been logged any in the last 12 months, or are they cutting now?

If so, it may be YOUR club he shot some of them off of. They were likely all killed during the day and during the week (monday through friday) when the lease holders are usually at work.


This situation would be one of the few good reasons to have a retired member in your club. He could watch the loggers while everybody else is gone.

Geno, are you in reality TIMBER3?

I truly don't have a bad opinion of loggers, one of my two closest buddies owns a logging company, BUT also I've never been associated with a property that was being logged during hunting season that there wasn't rampant rumors of "those loggers have been killing deer on y'alls property".

The only reason that would surprise me is how the area continues to have such a large population. I grew up with a guy that was a true outlaw. Haven’t seen him in a lifetime but he used to hunt with a fully automatic rifle and has been known to kill 4 deer at one time on more than one occasion.

There is something primal and instinctive about killing or catching all you can with a lot of men. I have seen it my entire life. From the guys cobia fishing every day for 2 months straight and killing every one they see to the guy killing every deer he can. I have seen people gigging flounder make multiple trips home in one night (so they don't have over the limit on them) and back to gig more. Look back at the passenger pigeon that is now extinct and the bison that would be if not for one man who saved them. Whitetail deer were wiped out from most states not that long ago. I don't understand it.

The dodo bird says hello

If you had a family of 4 and ate 2lbs of deer meat 4 times a week for dinner.

Roughly 6 deer would feed you for a year.

If you "need" to shoot more deer than that to "feed your family" I would suggest looking for a job. If you can't find one move somewhere you can get one. If you are trying to tell me McDonalds won't hire you you are FOS.

We had a foreman on a logging crew several years ago that we were pretty sure was wearing our turkeys out. Finally talked to one of the higher ups at Weyerhaeuser and got it stopped. Never actually caught him in the act but he would drive around in his pickup in full camo around the area being logged and we heard several suspicious shots over a few weeks span

It is NOT a widespread issue with loggers. If it was, we would see them do it, hear them talk about it, see evidence on site - at some point - we are around them too often. Not saying 1 out of 100 crews may be shooting some deer. But dang, y’all come can up with some crazy stuff.

There is 119 days of Alabama hunting season so 1 doe a day and 3 bucks a season. If you just wanted to slaughter them then legally the state says you can. I personally just don't have the opportunity to kill even 5 a year.

If I felt I need to kill more than 6 deer per year to feed my family, and was doing it legally, I would tell you to kiss my ass.

That was the only issue we've had as far as we know. I have no problem with loggers

I personally know one logging owner that I’m sure his guys don’t shoot deer on the job. I know for sure 2 other companies that do for sure. If either of the later 2 was cutting on your lease I can guarantee they would shoot a couple if given any kind of chance. All 3 of these are from Calhoun talladega area

There is this Facebook page called Alabama Deer Hunting the best there is, it is 80percent per rednecks shooting spikes and multiple does. I am a part of it for the pure comedy of it, we have created a new page with some quality members but I still like to look at it. There is this one guy that has shot 20 bucks this year in Alabama and I commented how is he not in jail and he comments back he knows about loopholes and what not and they are not in the regulations guide that I go by. It is so redneck that my comment enraged other rednecks that I was a game warden in disguise and the government can’t tell these “true hunters” how many to kill. It really shows what we are up against in Alabama trying to grow a strong healthy deer population.

I've killed truckloads at a time off of land that was extremely overpopulated. Anyone here ever seen 6,000 acres with a visible brows line, not a green twig, green leaf or anything unless it was 6' or higher off the ground? It's not a pretty sight, the land and deer population or the control methods.

I haven't enjoyed deer hunting since then!

I feed 30+ a night in my yard and know the population has to be kept in check but shooting deer in numbers for sport or bragging rights is ridiculous!

Anyone killing deer to sale is a common criminal!

True Bama Hunters is even more entertaining than Alabama Deer Hunters. That “feeding my family” bunch on there is one if the most easily triggered and confrontational groups of people I’ve ever seen.

It's fun when state (or fed) agencies who monitor social media pages on FB, Instagram or other sites starts putting things together to make cases.

If I were a state wildlife agency director, I'd create an internet-cyber investigative unit or hire-find-train at least one or two people on my staff to be cyber sleuths.

A lot of people who are online are so incredibly stupid or ignorant, or both, that it IMO wouldn't be hard to get leads and build cases.

Thanks for the info I will have to try to find the other page, I had a guy the other day with a 4 point asking age this deer and I comment 1 yr 6 months and 23 days lose it on me, he said defiantly a 3 year old.

Naw I didn't miss that lol. And i don't know too many white (wonder if he's black 🤔) folks that live up there "full time" (there is some) You know they're currently logging about a mile from the Bend hmmmm..

it ain't that dang hard. Most I killed was 34 in one season, all daylight, and all legal. Broke 30 several other years.

I've known several outlaws that killed 40-50 a season, not all daylight, and certainly not all legal. But it can be done.

I know a guy in Florida that spent time in prison for selling deer.

You talking about prison mike?

I havent reported any of my kills.


But all I have shot this year is 3 hogs and 2 coyotes. Rather my kids shoot any deer, and they report them on the app.

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Naw I didn't miss that lol. And i don't know too many white (wonder if he's black 🤔) folks that live up there "full time" (there is some) You know they're currently logging about a mile from the Bend hmmmm..[/quote]


My Dad's side of the family (his dad anyway, his Mother was from Salitpa in Clarke County) is from just south of there in Arlington. My grandfather used to buy cattle from the black farmers all around Gee's Bend. He worked for the Govt as a liason between the Govt and the residents who had been given 40 acres and a small house. Yeah there's less and less white folks up there all the time. We had about 25 in church at Arlington Methodist on Sunday though. That was very encouraging. Usually we could all sit on one pew. My grandparents old house in Arlington was in foreclosure a while back. Probably could have bought it for a song but didn't pursue it.

The whole place is different than I remember as a child in the 70's. Its 180* from what my Dad remembered growing up there. He graduated from Pine Hill High School in 1950. They burned all the Pine Hill public schools rather than integrate in the early 70's (late 60's?).

Lunch at Mike's Country Kitchen in Pine Hill is still good though. I ate there when it was the Dairy Creme. On the whole though, I'd say it hasn't devolved as badly as Selma.

I didn't know I had so many kindred souls on here (where's my little heart eyes emoji)

Hunters will end hunting in Alabama not an outside source like PETA. Y'all quit being snobs. There not your deer.

I wish - he would have passed up my best deer ever without a second glance LOL. Mine were all legal and I shot the first one I had a bead on in any given day. By family I mean more than just my immediate family. That said, I've only killed three or four in the last 15 years. My circumstances have improved beyond my wildest dreams.

Let’s say these guys do get caught, what’s the fine or penalty?

Not enough.

I didn’t figure it was enough and especially not enough to make them stop. Even if they pull their license they still gonna kill

I remember back in the early 80's when several well known bow hunters here, killed a hundred deer or more a year. Does were as plentiful as hair on a dogs back before the statewide doe hunts with a gun. Not many folks bow hunted with us, and you could hunt any WMA you wanted to and never see another Hunter outside of a gun hunt. I remember reading stories about Jerry Simmons and how proficient he was at killing deer with a bow. He was one of the best hunters I ever remember. I "think" I remember him killing over a hundred deer a year with a bow for years. It really wasn't that hard to do, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.

I was happy to kill around ten a year with a bow. I never picked up a gun for about twenty years. One year I killed 7 racked bucks before gun season opened. I was very content with my kills that year and didn't shoot a doe that year. I kept journals of every hunt and all the details are forever recorded as a testimony to what the good ole days were like. When I reached one hundred kills with my bow, I quit hunting with a bow and haven't shot a doe since then with a gun. I was like Forrest Gump when he quit jogging. I was through killing deer just to be killing them. Now I hunt and enjoy my time in the woods.

This is true. I always had several elderly families I would process deer for each year. They were on a very limited income and were very grateful when I would bring them a box of meat for the family. Two deer a year feeds me and my friends now, so that is all I shoot now. I really miss a young processed doe as compared to an older buck. The meat taste has a distinct taste difference.

I've known Jerry for 50 years, I don't think he ever came close to 100 deer in one season. In 50 years of bowhunting I've never known of anyone killing even 50 deer in one season.

I was trying to remember if it was AL Game and Fish that did an article on him back in the 90's about the number of deer he had killed. I am probably mistaken on him, that is why I put "think" in there. There is no way I would ever want to deal with that many deer a year. I know my memory isn't as good as it once was, but that ole boy sure killed a lot of deer with the Landshark broad head.