Originally Posted By: slipn
Originally Posted By: Driveby
Originally Posted By: Steve Ditchkoff
But, the one thing that very few people have mentioned is....the biological effects that a season change may cause.

Steve, a few days back I started a thread that simply asked for a biological reason as to why the season should be extended. After several pages of responses, would you care to guess at how many answers I got to my question? ZERO!!! It's kind of like talking to children while they are drooling at the window of the candy store. You can tell them the candy could rot their teeth out down the road but all they care about is the satisfaction of the here and now. They want what tastes good to them now, not what's healthy.
hunting all phases of the rut has not hunrt the deer herd in areas of alabama with a december rut - this was the case even before the 3 buck limit - why would an extended, shorter deer season that includes all phases of the rut have an adverse biological affect 10 miles away?


Do you consider the post rut part of "all parts" of the rut? If so, when would you think the post rut to occurs in south AL? Should hunters be able to hunt that period as well when the deer get back to a period when they can be patterned?

"After all, it is not the killing that brings satisfaction; it is the contest of skill and cunning. The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport." Dr. Saxton Pope