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"Opening Day"......

pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
edited November 2016 in General Discussion
Tomorrow is opening day of gun deer season in Alabama....oh what a cluster for us ole timers...we gotta go online and register our kills...Wa hahaaaaaaaaaaa...most don't have a computer much less a cell phone...the powers in Montgomery think we are gonna do their work(collecting data)...how many will lose their license? Stay tuned,should be hilarious...Could be my last year...[:D]

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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    thats a sign that the budget for your F&W people has been cut and there's not money to man the check stations.
  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,019 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Today is opening day in Illinois. Wife is out in the nest waiting right now. I have to get grandchild from school or I would give it a go.
    I am in a disadvantage, no cornpiles here in Illinois allowed.
  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,760 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Today was first day of rifle doe days here in Florida. I got a nice big doe to finish filling the freezer. Good luck on your hunting tomorrow.
  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,836 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So you actually have to hunt, and not just shoot. NICE! About time IL did something right!


    Merc


    quote:Originally posted by Grasshopper
    Today is opening day in Illinois. Wife is out in the nest waiting right now. I have to get grandchild from school or I would give it a go.
    I am in a disadvantage, no cornpiles here in Illinois allowed.
  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    with millions of acres in 200 bushel/acre corn do you actually think a puny 55 gallon drum of corn will do anything? thats funny. FYI baiting during season has never been legal. any feeders must be removed 10 days prior of season. and that would be archery season Oct 1.
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,494 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by discusdad
    with millions of acres in 200 bushel/acre corn do you actually think a puny 55 gallon drum of corn will do anything? thats funny. FYI baiting during season has never been legal. any feeders must be removed 10 days prior of season. and that would be archery season Oct 1.
    Shot 2 large Deer this year NEAR the corn piles. I sure hope that pisses some folks off. I will be eating fine for the next 2 years since my freezers are full of venison. BTW.. I plan on assassinating more for folks that need meat.
  • elubsmeelubsme Member Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We are assessed a $21.60 non reporting penalty fee when purchasing a deer tag in 2017 if we do not submit a 2016 harvest report. (Ca.)
  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A co-worker shot a big doe a few days ago for me. He'll bring me the meat next week.
  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by discusdad
    thats a sign that the budget for your F&W people has been cut and there's not money to man the check stations.
    ...never had any check stations...just trying to come up to Texas Standards...Who has the best whitetail population next to 'Bama!
    I have lobbied many years for a limit on bucks...
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Since I don't live in Alabama I don't have a say in the matter but why would you want a limit on bucks?

    I didn't know the limit had been changed, but it makes sense. As far back as the 1960s I remember the limit was a buck a day for the duration of the season and that didn't seem to reduce the overpopulation of deer.

    The object of limits should be to keep the deer population within what the state can support while maintaining a healthy herd and not a hazard to the public. It appears in most states limits are used as a revenue source.

    Mother Nature has her own way of controlling deer population. When the population gets too large some disease nobody has ever heard of pops up and there is a die off of more than we would like to see.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by discusdad
    thats a sign that the budget for your F&W people has been cut and there's not money to man the check stations.



    That sounds.....familiar. The check station here only runs Saturday and Sunday. Seems like they have plenty of time and money to burn making sure nobody catches a bull trout or cutthroat.[}:)]
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,494 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by shilowar
    A co-worker shot a big doe a few days ago for me. He'll bring me the meat next week.
    Good on him.
  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Zip! Nada!.....Wind blowing and swirling.....IMG_0216Rd%20Hunting_zpsvsomaqky.jpg
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