Originally Posted By: BSK
Originally Posted By: mike35549
I would say that a lot of those states kill just as high percentage of young deer as is killed in Alabama...


Absolutely true. Hunters in the Midwestern states kill about the same percentage of yearling bucks as hunters in most of the Southeast states, and hunters in some of the notorious "trophy" states kill quite bit higher percentage of yearlings (in Ohio, 50+% of the kill is yearlings).


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The difference is they have corn and soybeans growing in very fertile soil and we have pine trees growing in very marginal soil.


And that's the Final Answer. TN hunters actually killing more mature bucks per square mile than KY hunters, yet KY hunters are loading up the B&C recordbook and TN hunters are not. What's the difference? Soil and habitat quality.


I guess I am surprised this is still in question. There is only so many ways this can be said.

AL is NEVER going to be equal to a mid-western state. The best we can do is manage each area based on its own merit (Real Data). Have a tangible tagging system that can be checked and enforced easily. Make it so CEO's don't have a harder time than they do already and deer hunt.

If yall really want big deer. Buy all the timber land, cut down all the pines, take years to build up the soil and grow corn and beans grin

Last edited by NightHunter; 02/08/13 12:58 PM.