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Lynn hammock had 6 over 150” in his shop from Alabama when I dropped one off last weekend. If Tuskegee NF can produce an 8 point over 150” any where should be able to

Good luck!

If I never have one scored then I can just say what I want it to be and it will grow a little every year. I still haven't took my best one to be scored, cause I wanna call it a 150 but in reality it's probably a 145. Not that it really matters I'll be lucky to ever get a bigger one around here

67 counties in alabama one per county, am I missing something?

Must be using the metric system...

Some counties do probably have 10-20/yr killed but those are the exception and not the norm. There are also a bunch of counties in Alabama that have 0 killed per year for 5-7 year stretches. I can assure you there is not an overabundance of 150" deer in Alabama. A 150" buck is a very special animal and those that have the genetics to reach 150" are few and far between. They have to survive hunters long enough to get to full maturity, they need to be in a situation where they have the proper nutrition to put on the growth, they have to survive coyotes, poachers, EHD, buck fights, cars, the rut and on and on. Throw out all the high fence stuff and all the 130's that people claim are 150's and there are probably 200-250 bucks a year killed in Bama that legitimately score 150". Assuming we kill 250,000 deer in Bama annually, that means that 1/10th of 1 percent of the deer killed in Bama score 150" and I think that's probably about right. Note that there are a lot more than that running around but for some reason, they get a whole lot harder to find and kill once they get old enough to sport that kind of headgear.

Sorry guys. I didn’t figger 1.3 deer per county would sounds any better.

Without looking at others responses I would guess at least 500.

Having looked at the other's responses and become reasonably swayed by the wisdom of my fellow aldeer'ers, I might be a little high. Maybe closer to 300?

No county needs more than 1.3 bucks scoring 150+ a year anyway.

I would say maybe 100 or less. A 150 is a freak of nature. Another thing, many guys see a huge buck and right off the bat its "gotta be at least 150". Seems whenever someone is describing a big buck to me they say "it was at least a 150. Most mature bucks are 8 pt.s and it takes one hell of an 8 to hit 150. I shot an 8 last year that was 23" outside and 20" inside heavy and long mains and tines and it grossed 145". The only 8 I have seen that grossed 150 came from Texas. Most 150 class bucks are gonna be 10 pt.s or better simply due to the addition of scoring two extra points. I think most hunters grossly overestimate buck scores. Saw a guy checking one in at a WMA years ago and several guys were guessing it scored "over 150". Biologist there green measured it and it grossed 127! And that was a huge buck!

Like abolt said, a lot of 130's are called 150's.

My wife, grandson , and I have all killed bucks over 150. Wife first buck scored 151. Grandson killed a 162" eight point couple years ago, and a 127" eight point last year.

I agree that there are piles of people that guess a racks score but never pull a tape. I know several that have never pulled a tape, but still throw out guesses. But scoring a deer is not rocket science, just follow the instructions and it only takes a couple minutes. Am I as exact as an official B&C scorer, surely not, but I bet I'm not more than an inch off. I have scored multiple deer that my taxidermist or someone else has scored and regularly come up within 1/2" of each other.

“4/8ths inch of each other”
-Serious Deer Measuring Guy

Some counties produce 20-30 a year and some zero. I’ve already scored several over 150” this year, all killed within a few miles of each other. No way of knowing but I’m going to guess between 200-300 a year statewide. Could be even more. Not a single one of the ones I’ve seen have been posted on here.

More on par with my guesstimate

Must be a figment of my imagination, MB posting here...

Is anyone going to show us some pictures of these 150’s?

I’ve never personally put my hands on a 150 class buck or seen one. My family has been hunting the same property in Russell Co. for about 10 years now and it has produced some nice deer but no 150s. My brother has killed 2 that scored around 137 and a few other members have killed some in the 130s. I’ve only had one on camera that could have possibly scored close to 150. We lease around 1300 acres and we have enough trail cameras out that if there was one on our property we would know about it. A 150 in Alabama is really something to be proud of!