Alabama deer 2024

[utah400elk]

Not going to lie…things are looking real good. I just had six does feed out into the open. A little but very interested 8 came out and chased them all over the place. He was not a shooter but it was fun. They eventually all ran back into the trees. Three more does plus the original six are now feeding back out. I am really hoping his big brother or daddy shows up. They were definitely in range of the 350 legend. Fingers crossed.

 

[DKenny]

Good Luck! The rut should be on down there, especially with that big front that just came through.

 

[utah400elk]

These are 140-160 away. Nervous from the little 8 that keeps chasing them all around. There are now 6 deer in the open and I can here the little guy chasing up a storm in the trees behind them.

 

[utah400elk]

Just watched the shooter that I have seen in the area chasing a doe about 350 yards away. This group of seven does is now just 80 yards away. I am pinned down. I hope the live bait works.

 

[utah400elk]

Too close now. A little 4 point is stiff legging into the field for his go.

 

[utah400elk]

The little guy came running in grunting up a storm. The herd ran by at about 15 feet. There are three back out now. Fun night so far. I wish I could post video from my I Phone. He was grunting like crazy, it was cool to watch.

 

[utah400elk]

Two little bucks, a spike and the little four are in the field now. Three more does have started feeding out from where they all originally came from. The does keep looking into the trees. I have about 1 hour of shooting light left.

 

[utah400elk]

And just like my college days, a little cocky bastard ruined the night. He chased everything out of the field. Even the spike. I have about 45 min until dark so we will see what happens from here.

 

[utah400elk]

No deer were harmed tonight. I saw 5 more does and two more small bucks. One small 8 had almost his entire left side broken off. Great night and lots of fun. I also saw that little four chasing two does but I am sure they were some from the original group.

 

[kansasdad]

Quite the Ma Nature show

 

[Sheltowee]

Loving the live play-by-play. Good luck.

 

[utah400elk]

I will be back out next weekend. I know there are a lot of really experienced whitetail hunters but this was the first time I actually saw and heard a buck grunting. What can I say…I am a simple elk hunter from the intermountain region who has been displaced by work, (less then 3 years until I retire) who is having a blast hunting south eastern whitetail.

 

[Boarmaster]

I’ve seen rattlesnakes(diamondback and timber) in AL, but mostly see cottonmouths and copperheads.

We are full of timber rattlers down in Lowndes County. But only in the early season. I dont see many after Thanksgiving.

 

[Sheltowee]

We are full of timber rattlers down in Lowndes County. But only in the early season. I dont see many after Thanksgiving.

The cottonmouths are *thick* over by White Hall. Always wanted to turkey hunt over there but never found a suitable, full-body suit of snakeproof chaps.

 

[Boarmaster]

The cottonmouths are *thick* over by White Hall. Always wanted to turkey hunt over there but never found a suitable, full-body suit of snakeproof chaps.

They stopped making full body armor quite sometime ago. Got used to snakes hunting in South and South Central Florida for 30 years. I always did one hunt in big timber in Southern Ohio every year. I still was looking down at the ground every step I took. Never stepped over a blown down tree. Habit I guess.

 

[utah400elk]

Soggy day here today with major temp change tomorrow morning. I didn’t get out hunting this morning but did see a huge deer in the area I hunt. I dropped my son off at a swim meet then went to see if anything was out before hunting this afternoon. Of course with no gun, I saw a huge deer. I am set up about 800-900 yards west of where he spooked this morning. I am on a field edge where I have been seeing 5-10 does every night. It’s 56° with a 5 MPH WNW wind and 88% humidity.

I already have does out in the field within range. They keep looking back so I am hoping a big buck shows up tonight. The double main beam buck I was after was killed.

 

[utah400elk]

I can hear a buck grunting to my south in the trees but I can’t see him. The does are out in the middle of the field now, about 90 yards away. Great live bait!

 

[utah400elk]

Ok. Buck came out…almost shooter 8. He came in down wind of me and the does were spooked off a bit. They are sitting @130 now. He was almost a shooter and similar to the buck I got last year. I had a doe he was chasing go behind me a blow for about 2 min.

 

[utah400elk]

I can still here him chasing around me to the south

 

[utah400elk]

That’s the tree line he came out of. The does left the field, so it’s empty now.