Originally Posted By: Matt Brock

Originally Posted By: FH308
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Originally Posted By: Matt Brock
I haven't had a hard time seeing deer yet. I've been 15 total hunts, and seen 77 deer.

If I were some of you I'd start looking for somewhere else to hunt.


How many people have to post about declining deer numbers on here before you admit Alabama needs to reduce doe killing?


One other thing. I know this isn't the case everywhere, on all properties, but it is on some. Pressure is the leading cause of nocturnal deer and not seeing them where you hunt. I hunt a property near a large club. We lease some of the same property they do. Right now we are seeing plenty of deer in certain habitat types, but not others. If I only based my deer sighting activity on that property I would think deer don't exist. They were there in early bow season. Now the pressure has changed, and food sources have changed, and so have the deer.


This is what it all boils down to. The man is right. I haven't seen a buck but twice since gun season opened. Pressure changes everything. I save a few honey holes for rut and ours are in the early stages now. My son hunted one spot for the first time today and had 3 bucks cruse by. 7:00 am, 9:00 am and 10:am. He would sit all day but has school.We will not go back to that spot until Sat. Deer cruse that area for a year. Human's intruding on their place and they gone. If a dog can trail a deer 24 hours after it was shot, how much better do you think a deer can smell you.

It's not a Passion, it's an Obsession. That's what I tell my wife, but she promptly informs it's a disease to which is incurable.