Monday, August 4, 2008

Hunting Alabama: for you to know.

As many of us know, Alabama has one of the most liberal hunting seasons in the United States when it comes to white-tailed deer, and Georgia was a close second. Today's hunter is completely different than the hunters of the past. Today, there are nowhere near the number of hunters that there were 10, 20, 30, even 50 years ago. The hunter is a decreasing population but, the hunters that are around spend more money, travel longer distances, are are more involved in wildlife conservation than ever before. Alabama is a state that has allowed deer to flourish to an almost exaggerated over-population. I myself have hit 9(NINE) deer in the last 5 years while driving. One night i even hit 2 deer with in 5 minutes of each other. So I wonder, with the liberal hunting laws, why people don't hunt anymore. you can take 2 deer a day in the state of Alabama(2 does or a Buck and a doe). But this year there is a 3 buck limit for the season and each buck must be tagged and this is a law i do agree with since the doe-buck ratio is thwarted over the entire state. There are too many does for every buck with the exception of Conecuh and Escambia counties where there are to many bucks per doe.

So let me know what you think.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think the reason the number of hunters have decreased in the state of AL. is because of the limited days to dog hunt. Who wants to feed deer dogs all year long and only get to hunt a few weeks? Alot of the hunters that are spending more money is doing this because their buying up or leasing all the land they can so dog hunters cant even hunt close to them.