Leaving work one night out on FT McClellan before they finished the bypass in that big field across from the old BNOC barracks. 10-12 does in an outer circle with with a couple small basket racks scattered amongst them. In the middle of them was 2 very big bucks. The biggest had a 20” plus spread with g2s and g3s a foot tall, double brow tines. At least a 12 point with drop tines on each side. Hell of a deer.

Heard stories of the big bucks being plentiful in bama 20+’yrs ago when most of the land was still crops .now that the land is mostly pine trees (thanks to the increasing hog population) the big bucks are few & far between .

Hamma, I think you mean about 40 years ago.

There were still some good ones around in 80's (when I was old enough to hunt it as a kid) but based on what I've been told, the late 60's and 70's were when most of the blackbelt was in soybeans and at it's prime. They were casually sawing horns off bucks back then, that would cause wrecks and stop traffic today.

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I got buddies that use to take 165-170 inch deer in Nanafalia around ezells 45-50 years ago - now my buddies that take good deer lucky to get one in the 130s where we at
I ain’t never had a 130 on camera - i should next year - but I May not

saw a clean 170" ten point right by the office buildings at Liberty Park one night

Definitely the biggest I've seen. He was 10 feet from my drivers side door, i was at about 1 mph when he stopped on the other side of the road looked in my drivers window and gave us the ol FU. Looked like the cover of North American whitetail. Points, more than i could count, all of which where VERY TALL and looked like a rocking chair. And you could walk into it. Oh and the brow tines....... Geez....

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Driving through illinois on some back roads. Almost hit him with my car, probably should have. Big nice symmetrical buck, probably 10 or better.

The biggest I've ever personally seen was a huge 10-point in Northern California, I shot over his shoulder during bow season. I have no idea what he may have scored (but I would guess 160+), but I've never seen one walking that would match him and I've been fortunate enough to killed some reasonably nice bucks.

It is an interesting story, I saw him at about 150-yards and crawled/squat walked through a deep ditch to about 40-yards from him. Got on my knees, drew my bow looked over the top of the ditch and he was looking my direction. Let the arrow fly - I don't know if he squatted at the sound or what happened, but what looked like a perfect shot went about an 1-inch or so over his shoulder. A good friend of mine watched the whole thing unfold and he told me that afternoon that the although the buck couldn't see me, we was looking in my direction the whole time I was moving through the ditch and actually started moving towards me.

First bridge on Hobbie Rd on my way to bowhunt in Ramer I think 99 or 2000. Biggest buck I ever saw in Bama. Talked to the mailman at Wyatts supermarket and he said he saw him alot delivering mail

It would have been about 15 years ago. I was on a bow hunt with some old high school buddies who used to live in Illinois and still had family up there. We were hunting up there near a little town called Olney in Richland County. I was set up in a treestand on a run of trees along a little creek that had a corn field on one side and a soybean field on the other. Had a huge buck come out and start hooking tree limbs and rubbing trees but never came anywhere close to bow range. Looked like his horns should have made him tump forward they were so big. I unfortunately never saw that deer alive again. But I can show you at least one photo of him. The land owner killed that buck later on in either the shotgun slug or muzzleloader season up there. I can't recall which. And they did send me one photo. One of the guys I was going up there with eventually took these horns to an official scorer and it gross scored 192. Wish I had a better photo

Any deer on the wall of Ezell's Fish Camp really tells the story of what Blackbelt deer hunting looked like in it's prime.

#1 Barbour County - Early 90's. Dad and I had just driven through one of our gates and as I got in the truck and closed the door two bucks jumped up 50 yards from us. The second one was massive. Obviously didn't lay hands on it, but based on our best guess this deer would have been a 160 inch deer. Width, height, mass plus 10 points. Just huge. Forester working the property told us later that year that he picked up a shed that was the biggest he had ever encountered. I have not seen a live deer even close to this deer since then.

#2 - Montgomery County between Mitchell Station and Fitzpatrick on 110 - Two years ago, mid-day in January, huge buck standing by the side of the road.

# 3 Morgan County just West of Trinity - About four years ago. Buck standing off the side of Wheeler Hwy in one of those ag fields, mid-day.

#4 Tallapoosa County - Mid-90's. Cold morning and was slipping up a woods road between planted pines and a hardwood bottom. Huge buck stepped out at 30 yards looking straight at me. We stared a each other for what seemed like 10 mins. I knew I had one shot, which was to throw my gun up and shoot before he could turn. Didn't get get the gun to my shoulder before he was gone. Would put him between 140 and 150.

A couple 200 inch bucks

Not going to mention the county as I still hunt this area when I get a wild hair but this is a true story

January 2013 My buddies and I are hunting some boat access public land . We park the boat at the back of a slough, break out the sandwiches, start having lunch and were in the middle of a conversation in a normal outside speaking volume. Not even trying to be quiet.. Motor was off, boat was not being propelled forward, prop was out of the water. Land on either side of this slough is open permit public land- in other words, we were legal to shoot.

We hear water splashing and look up to see a sho nuff monster chasing a doe down the side of the bank. He is in about ankle deep water. He is at a steady trot making a heckuva a racket grunting, wheezing, crashing through water and mud. The track his is on will bring him past the boat at about 40 yards. I do not have a ton of time to take it all in as I am doing my dead level best to dig my gun out of the case and get a round in the barrel.

Much like a very vivid dream I remember shouldering my gun and catching a view of an absolute rocking chair as he came toward me. I vividly remember dark chocolate horns and beer can bases with HUGE sweeping tines, eye guards, and a ton of trash around his bases. I swear his main beams looked as big around as my forearm. It looked like some of those bucks that get shot out on Bankhead in early December every couple of years....a true giant.

I've never laid eyes on a deer in the wild that was later confirmed to be >150" but this one had to have been.

I fired and managed to knock a chunk of bone out of his right shoulder. A couple of drops of blood, and we never found him

Biggest I ever saw was inside the chain link fence at the old Huyck felt plant south of Aliceville. (Its Westervelt renewable energy now). Huyck had been closed for years and Im driving down 17 and see it. I pull off and am looking at it with my binoculars. 16 point with bases about the size of a beer can.

As Im sitting there I hear someone say "do you have a rifle in there?" As I turn to see who it was.... Richard Knox (Game Warden) was standing there looking at me. I never heard him pull up behind me. I said no and handed him the binoculars.

Damn fine deer.

Cades cove, 12 pt about 20” wide prolly would have score in the 180-200” range.

We just went up there and we had close to 140” 10 point at 30 yards.

About 15-20 yeaes ago my sister was going through the big D and I picked up my neice over in S. Illinois a bunch (usually at night). Driving 2 hours several days a week in illinois for a couple years changes your mind on what a big buck is.