Originally Posted by abolt300
Originally Posted by Rainbowstew
So just because someone has more land they should be entitled to more deer than a small acreage land owner? Wish I had a 300 acres or 1000 acres. If i did I would be hunting it and killing deer by the state laws and not by public opinion standards and worrying about what neighbors were killing. I get my 11 acres is not going to hold or sustain these deer that come on my property. I don't kill every deer that steps foot on my property and I have yet to kill one this year. I plant a nice food plot for them and feed them all year, hunt by the regs, so if a deer shows up on my property I am going to kill it if I want to and not feel guilty because I only have 11 acres.

The lack of deer in some areas is mismanagement by the state, lack of game wardens and deer hunters that don't give a crap and kill any deer that walks. It's a free for all in this state. When you have 1 or 2 wardens per county there is no way you will get compliance with any regs that are designed to sustain deer numbers. Because if people want to kill over the limit they will because they know they are not going to get caught. I have hunted and fished in Alabama of and on since 1989 and I have never been checked by a game warden while hunting or fishing.

I would say pretty much everybody on here is against big govt but when it comes to deer hunting some of you are ok with the state telling a landowner how many deer they can kill on THEIR property? Rules will be followed by the honest hunters and the outlaws will do as they please. I know I have them for neighbors. Get rid of Corn, Cameras and 1 Doe a day and it may make a difference but I doubt it. Why? Limited enforcement of game laws.

Some counties have to share a single warden with the neighboring counties or at least that's how it used to be. There is definitely not a warden for every county in the state, unless something has changed in the last 5 yrs. Everyone has to somehow get along. Here's a situation for you Rainbow. How would you like this: Dont know what your situation is but lets say your 11 acre property juts up into a rich landowner that owns 1500 or 3000 acres, under strict management, and has plenty of money. Then lets say that you are shooting quite a few deer each year on your 11 acres and he's hearing a shot pretty much every weekend on your property. How will you feel if he decides that you're detrimental to his management program and he's tired of you shooting all the young bucks he's trying to grow, and he decides to spend $5000 and put a high fence down all three sides of the property lines between him and your property and effectively makes yours completely worthless to hunt. At that point, I'd have to assume that you would be just as mad about him fencing those deer off of yours and making your property worthless from a hunting standpoint, as he is about you shooting all those deer that he's raising and are living on his property that are walking across the line to a bait pile and getting shot on your 11. Not advocating it in any way, but if it keeps up and keeps on, at some point, it'll end up hurting the little guy a whole lot worse that it does the big guy because at the end of the day, the big land owners really do control the resource, even if they dont own it. Just saying the small landowners need to start thinking about the big picture more than they do. And it's not like this is anything new that has just come about since baiting started. It's been happening for years and years. Only difference is that now the corn piles are much larger, now that the little guys doesnt have to worry about the GW checking in on him and it's not like there were ever enough GWs around to enforce or do anything about it back when baiting was 100% illegal.



I could care less if someone wanted to build a high fence next to me. Not every deer lives on the 1k you mentioned. They would lock out all other deer and leave them to me to kill and then I would not to have to listen to a whinny neighbor bitchin about me killing his deer.