Why wouldn't it work, Kodiak? (Just asking.) It would be voluntary so if it didn't work for a minority of people, why not take a chance and satisfy a majority of those that want to hunt in Feb. More restrictions? It's voluntary. If you don't like these minor restrictions, go fishing.

Constitution of Alabama 1901
Article IV Legislative Department.


SECTION 44
Composition of legislature.
The legislative power of this state shall be vested in a legislature, which shall consist of a senate and a house of representatives.

SECTION 45
Style of laws; division of laws; laws restricted to one subject; amendment or revival of laws by title only.
The style of the laws of this state shall be: "Be it enacted by the legislature of Alabama," which need not be repeated, but the act shall be divided into sections for convenience, according to substance, and the sections designated merely by figures. Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, general revenue bills, and bills adopting a code, digest, or revision of statutes; and no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred, by reference to its title only; but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be re-enacted and published at length.

SECTION 61
Laws to be passed by bills; restrictions on amendments to bills.
No law shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall be so altered or amended on its passage through either house as to change its original purpose.

SECTION 62
Referral of bills to standing committees.
No bill shall become a law until it shall have been referred to a standing committee of each house, acted upon by such committee in session, and returned therefrom, which facts shall affirmatively appear upon the journal of each house.


SECTION 63
Number of readings for bills; recordation of votes on bills; majority vote required for passage of bills.
Every bill shall be read on three different days in each house, and no bill shall become a law, unless on its final passage it be read at length, and the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of the members voting for and against the same be entered upon the journals, and a majority of each house be recorded thereon as voting in its favor, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution.

It's voluntary. If you don't like these minor restrictions, go fishing.

If an adult cant kill a mature buck with all the days we have he isn't spending enough time in the woods or there just aren't any where he is hunting! Bow season should open earlier!!! There should be a youth weekend the following weekend after deer season closes along with the one we have already. That way the kids can get in on the late rut areas without the adults jacking it up! Just my opinion!!!!!

I live and hunt in the SW zone, and even I was tired of the whining.

Quite honestly, I haven't really seen anything very impressive as far as MATURE bucks being killed in February yet. One or two, but most that I've seen killed thus far have been piss-ants. People have a right to kill whatever they want...fine by me if it's "club legal" or whatever where you hunt. But, some of the same ones who pissed and moaned the most about wanting February hunting so they could have a better chance at "mature" bucks, are the ones killing the bucks that would have been mature in a year or two. Hard to have mature bucks to hunt next year if you kill them this year as "juveniles". I'm no expert by any means, but that much I know for sure.

This is exactly the case for most! As I live and hunt this extended area also and this has been the norm the last ten days.

No doubt the season needs to be changed to include as much as two weeks into February, I guess the question is what part of the state. Using the states own conception dates as guidance, it seems the entire state needs to be extended. Average conception date samples show in the following counties the average sample dates of conception:
Colbert County - Jan 28
Jackson County - Jan 23
Limestone County - Feb 9
Madison County - Jan 29
Perry County - Jan 27
Randolph County - Feb 6
Walker County - Feb 3

Because of the various stocking areas of deer with different genetic breeding dates it is almost impossible to break the state into two or three hunting zones to allow the hunters the ability to hunt the rut.

People enjoy seeing bucks chasing does.

It's not a matter of "If youse cain't kill one in 3.5 months then quit!" or anything like that. That's a BS reply because everyone's hunting time, method and options are different.

It's the excitement of enjoying and hunting that specific chasing phase of the rut -- which is the entire period after velvet is shed, antlers are hard and hormone levels are high until bucks shed their antlers in spring.