12 bucks off 2500 acres is WAY to many bucks to kill off that land!!! Clearly you should leave that club and find a club where you have like minded hunters who take trophy managing seriously. Those clubs are out there for sure.
In Alabama there are all different types of hunters. Many here have not evolved into the conservationist/land manager type. I think that is where you ultimately want to end up. When you get there, you really enjoy the herd management perspective almost as much as the hunt. The guys I hunt with do more planting and feeding of the herd than we do harvesting. All of us really get excited to watch bucks grow from year to year! A lot of the enjoyment we have is just pulling camera cards to see what we have on the property.
Now don’t get me wrong. I love slinging lead as much as the next guy. It’s just my perspective has changed in almost 50 years of doing this. I was in Auburn in the late 80s and early 90s and man there were deer everywhere and big bucks too!! I would wack em and stack em with everyone else! Once again, I have evolved and so have many others. I also think that lots of hunters did not get to experience those days so I do not judge a person for pulling the trigger.
I truly believe we should go to a tag system. That is the only system that works. This reporting stuff is crap and no one does it. How can they possibly think they are getting accurate data????? Go to a tag system like every other state and then increase the fines to painful levels if people don’t use it. Then we will have a true understanding of what is happening in our state.
