Originally Posted by turkey247
Originally Posted by Okatuppa
Walker County is the new Jackson County.


Most folks would be surprised to know that - there were NO deer in half of Walker County 40 years ago. I’m not saying a few, I mean ZERO. I grew up in one of those places. We would see a deer track in the garden, eventually - and you ran home to tell everybody. Then, in my teens - we killed a couple “around the house”. Things fortunately changed fast.

But there was a time that most every hunter in the area traveled south and west to find huntable populations.


That’s what I keep saying. There are large areas in northwest AL going through the population boom the black belt encountered in the 80s to early 2000s. The populations here have grown exponentially over the last 30-40 years. There were NO deer here 50-60 years ago. Not just a few, but like you said zero. That’s why I think the Bankhead population has maintained its genetic integrity for almost a century. It had no competition and movement from deer populations around it. It was an isolated pocket of deer expanding outward with no other influence until recently.

Last edited by Mbrock; 12/09/23 09:41 AM.