We need to hire someone from the Missouri Game and Fish division, to take over AL deer hunting. They are light years ahead of us.
Fur, in your opinion, what do they do differently from Alabama that we need to start doing?
They base their management decisions off actual numbers. You can look online and see how many bucks, or doe were killed with a rifle. Same with a bow. Knowing the actual harvest numbers would help. Hunters in AL are their own worst enemy. If everyone would participate in game check, it would help, The state thinks only half the hunters participate. The reason they think that is because the actual harvest doesn't match up with the estimated harvest. Estimated numbers are made up. I'm not against game check, but the state needs to use the data to adjust the season and bag limits, instead of saying it's wrong numbers. Alabama refuses to use Game Check as a management tool, because they say that only X% of hunters use it. How do they know? The same way they know how many deer we have, they guess. The MO game check takes about 30 seconds to fill out.
