Originally Posted by Mbrock
You have an unequalled opportunity to kill a true once in a lifetime deer on Bankhead. There are some giants out there. The age structure is very good. Do not expect to see deer like you did in Lamar county on either area. Not gonna happen. Bankhead takes time. You need to spend a lot of time scouting. Look at aerials and then go investigate with boots.

Listen to this man. I've never stepped foot on freedom wma but hunt black warrior wma for 5 or 6 years now. There's deer there but not like what your going to be use to and your going to have to put in some leg work to find them there is monsters that get killed out of there every year. The first year I hunted out there was mostly scouting,wondering around, trying to learn. The second year I finally started seeing deer out there the 3rd year I was determined to shoot the moby dick of deer out of there then I realized that was a pipe dream that might one day happen eventually. The 4th year I was dead set on shooting a decent buck out of there and they started the 4 point or better rule that year and I seen several nice 6 points but they wasn't legal. Last year was my 5th year and I had a decent 8 pt. that was 2.5 yrs old that took a ride home with me he wasn't no monster but I was tickled to get him as my first buck out of there after. This year I haven't had as much time to hunt it since I changed jobs and was off work from Thursday till today and we had a thanksgiving family function every day since Thursday till today. But I was out there last weekend and seen some does and a spike but he wasn't pestering the does that weekend but it was probably on pretty good this weekend. But if you hunt that black warrior wma you might as well get use to walking straight up and straight down and repeat