Five Surefire Tips For December Bucks You can count on two things this month: The deer will have changed their patterns -- and most hunters won't have changed a thing. So how can you take advantage of this situation? (December 2007) ... [+] Full Article
Alabama's 2007 Deer Outlook Part 2: Finding Trophy Bucks
The southeastern corner of the state is made up of the counties of Butler, Covington, Crenshaw, Pike, Coffee, Geneva, Barbour, Dale, Henry and Houston. Bill Gray is the district biologist.
Barbour WMA continues as a top pick for a quality buck on public land. It has been under quality-deer management rules for several years. Again, three points on one side of the rack are required for a buck to be legal for harvest.
The area has almost any kind of habitat a hunter would want to seek out. "It has hardwoods, cutovers, thickets and grown-over agricultural fields," Gray explained. "It has over 100 quality food plots."
Gray noted that a hunter could get in a thicket where he could see only 20 yards, or could be hunting on a clearcut or fallow field where his line of sight stretched out to 400 yards.
The biologist's picks for the best quality private-land hunting are Barbour, Pike and Crenshaw, all of which are perennial producers of better bucks.
What will the drought, the freeze and the new buck limit actually mean for this year's hunting in Alabama. Time will tell. But it stands to reason that the 2007-08 season could be one for the history books for the Cotton State!
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