Originally Posted By: Sulli
Originally Posted By: mike35549
Originally Posted By: Sulli
Fayette county
BELOW
BELOW
BELOW

that being said I'm giving it one more year. If next year is as bad as the last couple of years, I'm seriously considering giving up hunting in Alabama and taking the resources & applying those to a couple of out of state hunts. That's my thoughts on deer hunting here now. It has steadily gone down hill the last 5-8 years or so.

Easy some people on here will get there panties in a wad. If you bad mouth deer hunting in AL. Especially if heaven forbid you say it sucks. I seen it happen first hand. LOL

For me Fayette Co
Does = Average , Below Average. Average
Bucks = Below Average, Below Average, Below average


Mike 35549, my panties aren't in a wad, it is simple economics. The ROI hasn't been there the last 2 years. Why not take my resources and use them where the ROI is present?


I hunted public land in Kentucky the past two seasons and had way better hunting than anywhere I hunt in Alabama. Killed 1 buck and 3 does each for my hunting partner and myself over 4 days of rifle hunting this November. Passed up probably 40 bucks between us, and ended up both killing deer on the last hunt similar to ones that we passed earlier. We found that some of the lesser known WMAs are loaded with deer. Just need to find enough woods close to crop fields, and stay away from the huge WMAs with nothing but hardwoods. Also, when you get a doe up there, you have something. More meat than 2 does around my place. I hunt escambia, Monroe, Wilcox, Limestone, and Morgan counties in Alabama. All private land and each place seems to have lower numbers the past few years.