The problem in Alabama is every partial of land basically is being hunted by somebody and the key to it is to be able to have alot of land that you can manage and maintain for years . I had to really educate myself quick on knowing what I was looking at and thru educating myself looking at deer's body and guessing there age I feel I have improved myself when i see a deer , I keep a digital camera with me at all times in the woods and I will take pics almost every hunt of what I see if I can I go back and study those pics to see if I made the right choice and 9 times out of 10 I made the right choice to let him walk , had guys say why didn't you kill him well hunting is about decisions and I try to make the right ones so maybe a fellow hunter will get a better deer the next year and i can truthfully say alot of hunters in our Club have benefited and got a good deer the next year , now fellow hunters have seen what I have been doing and now alot of them carry their cameras as well , we have been very fortunate and killed several deer over 140,150, and occasionally deer alot bigger , but Alabama has great potential if we educate ourselfs about deer age but we have to also realize every deer is not going to score 140 . I love to hunt but wouldn't feel right harvesting a deer either if somebody said there's a 150 that comes in at 1pm everday at that oak tree and I killed it , to me there's no satisfaction in that kill I didn't earn it and sure don't want to pay to kill it but everybody is different I'm
just glad God provides these animals and blesses us with this great sport of Hunting.
