Originally Posted by ikillbux
Originally Posted by GomerPyle
Originally Posted by ikillbux
I can only sum this up to variations from one piece of property to another, but I'm impressed by local Bama folks who identify deer on cameras and actually see them and kill them throughout the season, because my experience with this is to get several deer on cameras repeatedly up until early bow season, at which time they vanish from earth to never be seen again.

Yeah, that's a foreign concept to me.......I've never hunted a place where you have a real "history" with deer............get them on camera multiple years, be able to compare yearly progress, see a deer on-the-hoof and know which one it is, pattern specific deer and know when/where to expect them. I have never had that luxury.


This is stuff that only happens to Midwest TV hunters
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Seriously that is because of 2 things:

1) hunting pressure in general

2) someone doesn't shoot them.


Billy Bob ain't riding the shooting house 60 days popping deer up there. We have about twice the number of deer those States have yet many fewer good bucks. Some would say we lack the genetics. I say that is BS... Alabama has better genetics than we give our state credit for I have seen many deer over 150 and some 170's killed within an hour of Birmingham. I can lower my expectations and that's fair. However, the reality is we don't have the age structure they have. A 4 year old deer in Illinois has a larger rack no doubt but show me a pile of 4 year old deer shot in Alabama.... You can't. They are all somewhere between 35lbs and 3 years old stacking them up like cord wood.

Y'all think we have vast expanses of un-hunted property throughout the State? We don't. There are a few but nearly every stitch of ground here is hunted.

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