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I never called you a liar must be your guilty conscious but while we're on the subject you shouldn't tell so many tall tales, it'd help a lot.

It's a dang shame too, BigT. I ain't ever seen 200+, but around '86 we hunted property in NW Mobile Co along the Escatawpa. One particular field would usually have well over 100 in it in the afternoon. It was a BAD DAY to see less than 60. Times sure have changed.

Here is what I have got out of the last couple pages.... So if you are seeing 20-30 deer per sit then they need to be shot. Why? Obviously the land can carry that many otherwise they would not be there.

Just because they are "there" that means they need to be shot. That's not a management plan either! That sounds like someone that wants to shoot something to me and has ZERO to do with "management". That's a complete joke.

If you are seeing 20-30 does and few bucks someone is shooting the small bucks. That's the truth of the matter. So - You should shoot a bunch of does? Is that so the person will have less small bucks to kill the next season I guess?

Is that management? NOPE. That is dumb as hail is what that is. You are totally screwing up the natural balance. If you took all the guns away there would be a good buck/doe ratio and the numbers of deer present would directly refect the land's carrying capacity. Nobody would have to "manage" a thing. Mother Nature will do it for you. But we like to hunt so here we are on the internet.

Probably both. I absolutely believe the numbers being quoted by Troy and others from the 80's and early 90's. I hunted as a guest on a club just west of Macintosh which adjoined the Boykin's private place back in the late 80's. It was on the dmap and there were several really big fields 400x200 (15 acre type stuff) that would always have 75-150 deer come into them pretty much every afternoon. It was actually hard hunting. There were so many deer coming and going that a good one could slip in without you catching him. Dont know how many times I'd be glassing and a buck would have somehow made it out into the middle of the field and be mixed in with 50-60 other deer without me even knowing he was there. It's hard to believe but you really can have too many deer in a field at one time.

You could definitely miss one in amongst them, but it sure was fun trying to keep up with it.

Yes it was. Days gone by now.

Hunted numerous times when I was growing up in Marengo county and seen 100+ in a single field. On the way out you would have to stop to let the deer cross the road they were one after another.

(There are still places to see a ton of deer everytime you go)

I absolutely agree but it is certainly not anywhere like it used to be. There were whole sections of certain counties where deer were like cockroaches. You could ride the county roads in between Linden and Thomaston and up toward Old Spring Hill and see literally hundreds of deer in one pass and a bunch of stud bucks too. Same thing with the old railroad bridge road from Pennington over to Myrtlewood, that whole area down around Nanafalia and Lavacca. Now you're lucky to see 10 deer total. Yes there are places where you can still see 20-50 deer in a field but they are few and far between and in very isolated pockets whereas in the past it was common place all over in almost all of the blackbelt counties.

I use to hunt at a place in Greene Co close to the river that had a big power line a was common to sit on the power line and loose count of how many deer crossed the power line in an evening. Guest hunted a couple times in Linden during that same time early 90's and between Demoplis and Linden after dark there would literally be deer every where every little dip anywhere there was some green grass on the side of the road. At the same time all these deer lived in that area they was also killing quite a few good bucks to.

Not possible. You can’t kill good bucks unless you kill the majority of does first. You know the rules.