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This has got to be the best stretch of prime hunting weather we've had in years......

Opposite for me. Process my own deer and haven’t had to buy any hamburger or steak all fall or winter. Big grocery bill savings. Even at the processor you are saving money vs buying beef.

It's making up for the terrible previous 2 1/2 months, for sure.

Nope. No anomalies. Average weather happens every year is what you indicated earlier.

You sure that's what I said??

That may not be verbatim , but you made a statement to that effect when we were discussing the two very warm spells around Christmas.

As far as cold weather , we had a stretch of single digit nights and highs 12-15 January '24 and '25 up here. But "years" is plural .
Nothing new up here.

https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/scottsboro/year-2024

https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/scottsboro/year-2025

My observation is it’s a good thing the season is so long. There’s not that many truly great days to hunt. Most days the wind blows from every point on the compass.

I think they all took up duck hunting

Factual statement here!

Considering the upper Midwest gun hunting seasons are very short yet kill as many if not more deer

Sometimes drawing out a long season could be detrimental
I remember back I the early 90s talk of studies and families impact from hunting. Hunting widows was one term I’d heard of. I recall some studies with hunter involved questionnaires about how often one hunts etc…. States like Arkansas stated closing duck hunting on Thanksgiving and Christmas so hunters would stay home with their families. Alabama opened duck hunting on Thanksgiving for a few years but moved it to the Friday after.


Todays world kids have so many activities and parents and grandparents are intertwined with those activities accounts for less hunters

Also some studies suggest instantaneous gratification is a problem. The term light switch kids was coined. Basically generations have grown up flipping a switch and instant accessibility. Never learning patience and sitting there with nothing happening which gets boring. It’s why I never liked a shooting house over a field. Get off in the woods and become a part of the outdoors. Actually learn funnels and reading sign. These days folks plant a field and sit and wait to shoot. Really not hunting in its purest form

Sometimes change is not good. We’ve gone from hunting to farming for deer

Sitting under an oak tree dropping aint much different than in a green field imo.

People only have a few plots , whereas there are thousands of oaks on a property . Ya gotta know which tree or grove of trees to sit under. Sitting in an open stand is waaaaaay different than sitting in a shooting house. I could go on .............

I struggle keeping up with CNC's erratic posts on the turkey forum so don't do it here much and wasn't about to go through 31 pages of bloviating BUT..... seems like the 2 a day is going to eradicate all the does from Alabama..... wasn't that the original premise? Hell Ive had a hard time killing the does I need for the freezer this year.

The hunting experience is totally different

That in fact was the original premise until it didn’t come close to happening then it became that we had already killed all the deer. At this point no matter what happens he’s left himself enough wiggle room to make sure his “predictions” are right when it all comes out or he can look back next year and say I told you so. He says he wants discussion but until everyone agrees with him he’ll never be satisfied.

His posts are horseshit. The only point is to drag everyone into a horseshit debate.

Correct, you can learn a lot sitting in the woods. I've seen a wealth of interesting things from all wildlife , not just deer in 50+ years in the woods.
You need a different level of shooting skills as well, that's not learned shooting on a bench at the range. Just because it may not be long distance doesn't mean it can't be difficult .

Most of the time, he doesn't even agree with himself if you look at all his posts.

This brings up memory of my wife’s nephew wanting to come hunting with me. I’d guess 20 years ago and he was maybe 12-13. I asked him what he wanted to hunt. Duck hunting was tops. He’d been watching lots of hunting shows and that looked the most fun. Bear in mind this kid lived in south Florida and hadn’t even been around a gun. I asked about deer hunting and him saying well there’s nothing to that. You sit in a house wand watch a field, you shoot a deer. I took him duck hunting in the morning and deer hunting that next evening.

The next day we slept in and went squirrel hunting with dogs. That was his favorite type of hunting.

I think deer hunting is the most difficult IF one doesn’t sit a field while in a house. I’m not dissing that at all, it’s just not experiencing the world around you and listening for all the subtle clues. Figuring out the puzzle and so forth.


These days using all the technology kinda changes the expectations. I think that’s a bad thing. Used to look at the sign and try and figure out the bucks and how big etc… from the sign they’re making. Now put cell cam on it and get instant pics etc…. Then they get named and put on the save or the hit list. Now it lessons the wonderment of what is out there. I think that’s kinda where we’re at.
I think taking the mystery out kinda kills the zest or maybe that’s my older cynical self hating change. 🤷‍♂️

I guess where I’m going with this. I think there fewer hunters in the woods year after year