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Re: Unpopular Opinion
[Re: UA Hunter]
#3365969
03/03/21 08:27 PM
03/03/21 08:27 PM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,767 Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,767
Awbarn, AL
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If you want to kill more mature bucks then you gotta see more of them.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
[Re: UA Hunter]
#3366006
03/03/21 09:25 PM
03/03/21 09:25 PM
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Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 221 Auburn
red neck richie
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Posts: 221
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II Have a problem with that! I like to hunt whatever size deer I feel like taking ! Its not up to you!
Old enough to know better but still too young too care!
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
[Re: Mbrock]
#3366127
03/04/21 12:04 AM
03/04/21 12:04 AM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 15,863 Elmore County
Frankie
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Elmore County
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It doesn’t take a savvy woodsman to smoke the 2-3 year old age class. Nearly every property I’ve hunted the older bucks were no harder to kill than the younger ones, except there just aren’t as many of them. You can’t kill what’s not there and there’s lots of places they simply aren’t there. The properties that consistently produce very nice deer all have one thing in common. It’s simple. They don’t shoot them until they’re big. Nothing spectacular. Average hunters can kill big deer where they exist. Yeah , never leave out the,,,, luck factor. Lot of simple things hunters can do to improve their chances Where I hunt there will never be what i would call , a trophy class deer killed.
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
[Re: UA Hunter]
#3366134
03/04/21 01:14 AM
03/04/21 01:14 AM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,783 alabama
outdoors1
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,783
alabama
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In most of Alabama, the population of mature bucks could significantly increase and the number of mature bucks killed by hunters wouldn't significantly increase. In most places, it's not the complete lack of mature bucks that prevent most people from routinely killing them. It's habitat, hunting styles and other factors. If you never see/kill mature bucks now, that would be unlikely to change. Some of the biggest bucks ever killed have been killed by the most unlikely hunters. Lot will say they didn't even know it existed like Milo Hansen? Now, just having access to the right property that is the most difficult part, imo. Some people just have the right property or habitat and on those any kid can shoot one, almost at their choosing. Not really that impressive to me! Like shooting fish in a barrel. Some properties are just loaded with deer others obsolete until.....boom or swack!
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
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#3366325
03/04/21 12:42 PM
03/04/21 12:42 PM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 2,668 Central Alabama
QDMAV8R
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 2,668
Central Alabama
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The three hardest things in deer hunting: Educating deer hunters, getting everyone you hunt with on the same page as far as goals and controlling that trigger finger. If you have those three things going for you, you’ll have plenty of mature bucks.
"Never met a deer that I didn't like" - QDMAV8R
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
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#3366384
03/04/21 03:03 PM
03/04/21 03:03 PM
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Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,363 Montgomery
WmHunter
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14 point
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Posts: 8,363
Montgomery
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In most of Alabama, the population of mature bucks could significantly increase and the number of mature bucks killed by hunters wouldn't significantly increase. In most places, it's not the complete lack of mature bucks that prevent most people from routinely killing them. It's habitat, hunting styles and other factors. If you never see/kill mature bucks now, that would be unlikely to change. Truth.
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
" Chuck Sykes is a dictator control freak like Vladimir Putin " WmHunter
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
[Re: Mbrock]
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03/04/21 03:06 PM
03/04/21 03:06 PM
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Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,363 Montgomery
WmHunter
14 point
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14 point
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Montgomery
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It doesn’t take a savvy woodsman to smoke the 2-3 year old age class. Nearly every property I’ve hunted the older bucks were no harder to kill than the younger ones, except there just aren’t as many of them. You can’t kill what’s not there and there’s lots of places they simply aren’t there. The properties that consistently produce very nice deer all have one thing in common. It’s simple. They don’t shoot them until they’re big. Nothing spectacular. Average hunters can kill big deer where they exist. People have to quit smoking the 2 and 3 year old bucks.
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
" Chuck Sykes is a dictator control freak like Vladimir Putin " WmHunter
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
[Re: Gobl4me]
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03/04/21 03:09 PM
03/04/21 03:09 PM
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Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,363 Montgomery
WmHunter
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 8,363
Montgomery
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Your hunting is only as good as your neighbors..... with baiting and liberal seasons the opportunity exists to decimate buck populations. "liberal" season has nothing to do with it. Because there is a buck limit of 3. The "problem" is all the great white hunters out there that smoke every 2 and 3 year old buck they see until they limit out. Baiting could be an issue - and it should have never been legalized.
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
" Chuck Sykes is a dictator control freak like Vladimir Putin " WmHunter
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
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#3366404
03/04/21 03:25 PM
03/04/21 03:25 PM
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Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 6,095 Anniston, AL
ikillbux
ishootatbux
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ishootatbux
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Posts: 6,095
Anniston, AL
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In most of Alabama, the population of mature bucks could significantly increase and the number of mature bucks killed by hunters wouldn't significantly increase. In most places, it's not the complete lack of mature bucks that prevent most people from routinely killing them. It's habitat, hunting styles and other factors. If you never see/kill mature bucks now, that would be unlikely to change. I agree with you. Very few mounter-racked bucks are killed on a greenfield, from a shooting house or ladder stand, that gets hunted every weekend, by every member on the club and their 463 kids and guests (with their Bad Boy Buggy sitting literally in sight) (and it was daylight when they walked in and out). When someone says "hunting club" to me, I immediately think "food plots and ladder stands" and basically no chance at a mounter buck. No thank you.
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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Re: Unpopular Opinion
[Re: WmHunter]
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03/04/21 03:31 PM
03/04/21 03:31 PM
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Joined: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,920 Montgomery,al,usa
Davyalabama
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Joined: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,920
Montgomery,al,usa
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Some of you want further encroachment on our hunting privileges, because you prefer a different way of hunting. You bow hunt, so let's limit gun hunters. You want a huge buck, so let's limit the numbers others kill. Go buy several hundred acres, manage it to the best or your ability, and then have some twiddle fart tell you that you can't kill bucks on it, because it isn't fair to them because they can't hunt that type land. Hmmm, sounds like a bunch of democrats to me.
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” Napoleon Hill The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. Thoreau
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