36 Alabama WMAs offer more than 768,000 acres of public hunting and access.
That does not include the refuges and national forests.
Hunting numbers are down "statistically." That's a fact.
It helps to say that, too, when Johnny's generation wants to play YouTube Rock Hero instead of coming in to grab the BB gun and go out in the field. But there is no field, the BB gun will get him arrested for possession of a weapon and Daddy's having to work his ass off because the economy sucks so they can't go hunting as often.
When they can go, the old Johnson place has been turned into a strip mall, the farmers who still have property lease the hunting rights to doctors from out of state or won't allow anyone on it due to liability and Daddy can't figure out how to take his kid on a public land gun hunt b/c he doesn't know the land and is afraid he'll get shot.
So they don't go. License sales decrease and people say there's no place to hunt.
Hunting numbers are down.
But that doesn't mean there are no places to hunt. You just have to put in some time, legwork, be appreciative of the spike or few does instead of the RackDaddyBigPecker wallhanger everyone believes is their God-given right to shoot in a 2-hour hunt and go do it.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
