Originally Posted by abolt300
The problem is not the corn. It is the general mentality of the majority of hunters in this state. Kill kill kill. “I’m a big man because I limited out on bucks every year for the past 10 years. Or I killed 19 deer last year see how much of a great hunter I am.” Corn will definitely cause a deer to move through or go onto a small inferior property, but that doesn’t mean that deer has to die. That decision falls to the man behind the gun or bow. Alabama’s problems, herd decline or growth, nocturnal deer due to over pressure, piss poor age structure due to over harvest of young, immature bucks, etc is all 100% due to the hunters in this state and their complete lack of trigger control. Thank goodness there are still a bunch of us that manage deer and have big properties all over the state that can somewhat protect the deer and act as nurseries. If we hunted like some of my neighbors, there wouldn’t be a deer left in our area. Now that it’s legal, we feed corn and beans, not to kill deer over it but to try to keep them from roaming onto to other properties and getting shot.

Alabama’s DAs running things don’t help one bit either. They make decisions not based on herd management and health. They are now political decisions based on $$$. Kill a doe a day is stupid. You can hunt over corn if you pay for a license to break the law is really stupid. Extending the season in areas where the rut is well over, is stupid. And this is going to offend some on here that hunt almost everyday of the season, but having a deer season that runs for 118 days, with 102 of those days being rifle season, is dumb as hell and stupid too.


Lot of truth here. Sure, corn and cell cameras are cheat codes.

So is the guy feeding a ton of food per week, or the guy with equipment to plant acres of food plots. All are done to attract deer, improve habitat (grow deer) so that we can harvest deer.

If we all used common sense this could solve itself. Since we can’t, I am in the boat that the season is too long.