I'm about done messing with deer hunting in Alabama. The last two years, I've spent more hours planting fields/working than in a stand. It takes a lot of time, energy, and money to consistently kill mature deer here, and more often than not, those mature deer will never touch 130".
I'd rather drive 4-8 hours and hunt a place that doesn't have a 3 month gun season and elmer fudd sitting on a corn pile every 20 acres.
Dude you kill bigger deer than the majority of people in the state consistently…I honestly see and don’t see your frustration as you have to see how blessed you are with the ones you do continue to get. It’s like my buddy in Montgomery complains, and I’m like come hunt the places I hunt and I’ll show you tough hunting with minimal deer numbers and max size of a 110” buck at full maturity… just saying.
And yes…out of state hunting is way easier even in Tennessee for consistently giant bucks pushing 130 plus. My friends out of state always kill studs not having to really work for em
That may be what it seems like from afar, but I rarely have a deer over 125” to hunt on my places. Like once every few years…..and as far as killing, there’s tons of people on this site who would wipe the floor with me.
The point of my original post, was it’s frustrating to have a piece of land that you never pull the trigger on, yet somehow rarely have mature deer. It’s gotten a lot worse the last few years. I’ve got one place that I’ve killed 2 bucks on in the last 5 years, but the hobby farms that back up to it have likely killed 50 in that span. Effort vs reward is much more appealing a few hours north or west.
