Y'all realize it's all about the money we are one a few states that has to pay extra to hunt our own public land and to pour out a sack or corn.
My resident license here is almost half of what I paid for a non resident license in indiana and half of what I paid in nebraska for a non resident

No doubt it's about money.

Here in Louisiana you have to buy a different license for what ever weapon you hunt for that particular season. Have to have an archery license to hunt archery season. Primitive license of that season. Also have to have a “Big Game” license and your “Basic” hunting license to go with those 2. Costs dam near $50 just to hunt a deer here and have to carry paper tags and they cannot be separated from the license unless it’s on a deer or turkey. If accidentally separated they are void and cannot be used. Never heard of anyone being checked or cited for this. You have to fill out the tag and attach it to the deer or turkey before you move it and then have to check it and get confirmation # and write that on your license. Alabama game check is way simpler then all the crap we have to do.

Montgomery keeps piling new rules and regulations on us, making it harder just to go hunting or take a kid hunting and they wonder why we balk. There were easier ways to gather data on kills that did not require criminalizing non compliance. Feds do it every year. I wonder how much that would of cost vs how much they have spent trying to get compliance on this bulldoodoo system we are now burdened with?????????

This was my takeaway, what a dick

I get it...Chuck Sykes is not a likable guy!

And, maybe I get blasted on this, but that’s ok, it’s my opinion and I’ve got thick skin, but to say Game Check is too complicated is just plain BS! It’s a heck of a lot easier than posting a pic on Aldeer, that’s for dang sure!

Every state is responsible for managing its natural resources. Anyone worth their salt, wants to have reliable data to help in making the best decisions possible. The best system and the resulting decisions may be up for debate, but as responsible stewards, we should want to provide the best harvest data. We have a very liberal hunting season and reasonable bag limits (check what other states are doing). Conspiracy theories or tin foil hats be damned, it’s not a bad system. It’s not perfect, but we’d all gripe about it if it was.

Hunt ethically, teach kids how and report your kills (most of them anyway)!

Trump 2020

Most everyone uses apps to order food, shop on amazon, look at deer cam pictures, watch youtube, listen to music, track packages etc............ but logging a harvest on an app is complicated and burdensome? I guess I am in the minority - if any of my kids or I kill a deer, we fill out the game check and move on. Never even considered not doing it or the burden that it placed on me. It has been aggravating as hell at times using the app but always had a paper copy for back up. I also think it is ridiculous that i have to pay $15 for a baiting license for my non licensed hunter but do it just the same. IMO the actual burden is being placed on the processors and taxidermists because of the general public not reporting.

I still really believe not as many deer are being killed as the state thinks

I'm not forced to use waiter or wallmart pickup. We choose too. The deer app forces us to do something.

You can thank lying , backroom dealing Chuck for the February season in the top part of Alabama.

Chuckie said he wants/needs data to make good decisions. Well, my question is what is he going to do when the data shows that the numbers have been low, not because of a lack of participation, but because the deer simply are not being killed at the numbers the state has always claimed (300,000 + annually). That leads to one or two conclusions, either people have decided that they no longer like to shoot deer, or, our deer herd has been mismanaged for the past 10-15 yrs and the herd is not nearly as healthy and large as Chuckie says it is. Season is 2/3's gone and the rut is winding down in the north part of the state. Assuming that reported kills continue at the same rate for the remainder of the season, there will be roughly 135,000 - 160,000 deer checked in on game check. Half of what the state has claimed as the annual kill number, By including the processors and taxis in the enforcement process, he's pretty much guaranteed to have 75+% participation. Now, if that is the case, and the true annual harvest is half of what has been claimed for the past 20 yrs, will Chuck cut down on the statewide doe slaughter, lower the bag limit and shorten the season (all sound management decisions based on the data, if the data shows the herd as not being in the shape or size that he claims) or will he bow down to the almighty dollars generated for the state by hunting and just let things roll on along?????? I've got a strange feeling that I already know which will influence Chuckie's decision.....$$$

Abolt300 you have the same questions I have. I feel like the season is too long and way too much doe slopping and not nearly as many deer killed in this state as the anointed supreme leader believes. But I dought anything will happen because it’s all about the money. Money from Alfa money from license sales money from out of state hunters coming in for long and liberal seasons money from deer farms etc etc etc. I know for a fact Alfa insurance co wishes every deer in the state was dead and they will continue to lobby for liberal doe seasons. Yes some people have a doe problem so let them get on a program with the biologist and work it out but the state ad a whole cannot support the legalized doe killing that’s been going on for years.

Feb season isn’t that bad in NoAL west of limestone county or so. Colbert and Franklin don’t even start rut til mid-late Jan.
If anything, I wish they’d just do a 6+ point limit and allow an early velvet season.

If its about that type of money, then why bother with game check at all?

Do yall think game check is just a front?

Who appointed chuck and when can he be replaced?

You know the funny or not so funny thing I guess about all of this data is that above all else what they really need is “trending data”…….Which in essence means that they just hit the reset button when they started making the processors record the hunter’s number and sich…….Just like Matt said…..”The numbers are WAY different than they were last year”……..Participation has changed but it tells us nothing really about the deer until we create a new trend line…..correct? Which means that as long as they continue to tinker with participation and never let it remain a “constant” then we’ll still be hitting the reset until we get to some place where they are happy and then let it ride for a while.

Anybody factoring covid in on this damn thing? I'll put money on it affecting the numbers this year.

The only constant has been change.