Originally Posted by Mbrock
Originally Posted by CNC
Originally Posted by ALclearcut
No doubt you need age to get them that big and rough terrain contributes to that. But there are a lot of places in Alabama with rough terrain and old bucks that never produce what other areas can.



I would think that food is probably playing a big factor in that. I know Jackson Co has a lot of fertile valleys mixed in with those rugged mountains…..Isnt Bankhead surrounded by farmland??

Something about this buck too that nobody has mentioned…..Its no doubt a stud with great mass but a lot of that non-typical stuff it has going on may just be tied to some kind of antler injury or something…..If you look at the other side its just a basic 8 pt……The hunter may have just gotten really lucky to have killed this deer on the right year

To the north there’s a decent amount of Ag. Every other direction no.

Where this deer was killed there’s no agriculture to speak of. I typically see the better deer in north AL come from heavily timbered areas rather than ag lands.


That’s what I find so fascinating about that area. Anywhere else producing really big deer has easy explanations: Bankhead’s Michigan genes, the Black Belt’s soil, other areas with lots of ag fields. Walker and surrounding areas don’t have any of that. Something has to be going on with minerals in the reclaimed strip mines.