Alabama Bound!

[Boarmaster]

I haven't tried them, yet. I've heard they are some count.

I gonna pick up a pack next week at the grocery i shop at in Greenville. My lease is only two exits north of Evergreen where their plant is.

 

[Boarmaster]

I need to do this one year. Indiana deer hunting effectively wraps up for me in late November as I don’t have a muzzleloader and the activity after that typically isn’t worth bowhunting. Heading south would definitely extend the season!

If I took up bow hunting for whitetail and hog and turkey hunting in AL after the deer season closes on Feb 10 th I could hunt about 6-7 months out of the year there. I love hunting but I am pretty well ready to get fushing SWFL Florida by March.
We traded out our turkey hunting rights to the guy who puts in our food plots so I dont hunt them.

 

[Autiger95]

Yep great place for climbers. Thousands of trees that all look the same. But the tree in the most perfect place seems to always have a bunch of vines growing up it.

Those older pines in dense public land always have them.
I have a buddy who will find the trees he likes and trim the vines off of them with a small hatch before the season starts

 

[omicron1792]

Those older pines in dense public land always have them.
I have a buddy who will find the trees he likes and trim the vines off of them with a small hatch before the season starts

Biggest difference for you western and northern boys is it will be super flat. Instead of draws and valleys you have to find funnels based on other things. Bend of a creek. Swamp. Where a clear cut meets a thicket.

Change from pine to hardwoods. Bucks are edge creatures and will walk the edge where one type of vegetation meets another.

 

[N2TRKYS]

Biggest difference for you western and northern boys is it will be super flat.

Maybe, maybe not. I hunt places in Alabama that are way steeper than where I elk, mule deer, and turkey hunt out west.

 

[Boarmaster]

Maybe, maybe not. I hunt places in Alabama that are way steeper than where I elk, mule deer, and turkey hunt out west.

Pretty hilly where I am at. Nothing like mountains. Lots of drains. Pretty good visibility now with understory all leafless but when we start up in November it's a dang jungle.

 

[Boarmaster]

Biggest difference for you western and northern boys is it will be super flat. Instead of draws and valleys you have to find funnels based on other things. Bend of a creek. Swamp. Where a clear cut meets a thicket.

Change from pine to hardwoods. Bucks are edge creatures and will walk the edge where one type of vegetation meets another.

I have a spot I will be hunting next week that is in a corner of a hardwood slough, an old clear cut and mature pines. On the other side of the slough there is about a mile by quarter mile patch of last years clearcut. I cant get any more edges than that.

 

[Boarmaster]

Another tip to remember…..don’t think because you’re coming to the South that it doesn’t get cold. 30 degrees and 90% humidity will freeze your butt off.

16 is then predicted low this coming Tuesday. LOL.

 

[omicron1792]

I have a spot I will be hunting next week that is in a corner of a hardwood slough, an old clear cut and mature pines. On the other side of the slough there is about a mile by quarter mile patch of last years clearcut. I cant get any more edges than that.

That sounds perfect.

It will be cold. Be prepared. They aren’t lying. Will feel 10-15 degrees colder than the temp.

Young clear cuts here they use almost like a food plot. Bucks will come out of the mature hardwoods. Good luck!

 

[flathead#2]

Yeah, supposed to snow here on the Gulf Coast.
It's Al Gore's fault.

 

[Boarmaster]

That sounds perfect.

It will be cold. Be prepared. They aren’t lying. Will feel 10-15 degrees colder than the temp.

Young clear cuts here they use almost like a food plot. Bucks will come out of the mature hardwoods. Good luck!

I’m not up there until Wednesday so looks like l might miss the coldest of it. I been up there many years when its 20s and raining for days. Damn sticky red clay mud all over everything and just chilled to the bone.
I got a good warm cabin to crawl into and a good hot food to eat so I will be good.

 

[AlabamaMountainMan]

Idk if anyone has said it yet but AL post a map that shows the expected rut times on their main website. It is also pretty in-sync with the OnX southern rut heat map. For what it is worth, I have found deer to be rutting a bit behind it this year in 3 different rut zones. I basically start in Choccolocco WMA / Zone E and work my way down through Clay and Cleburne counties as the rut changes.

 

[Davyalabama]

Yeah baby, if you're going to be in a tree later today or first thing in the morning, you better have all the Sitka gear you own on, hahahahahaha. Have you got a woobie? How about some heater packets?

 

[Npike4040]

Just got back and man that was awesome! Killed a decent buck and my buddy killed his limit of 3! The timing was perfect bucks were cruising everywhere. Saw close to 15 different bucks in 3 days of hunting. Was not expecting the terrain to be almost all hardwoods and big rolling hills. I saw more buck sign on 40 acres than i did all season on a couple thousand in Missouri. Had a blast and cant wait to go back next year for a couple weeks with my bow! Definitely a great way to extend my season and not worry about chasing giants.

 

[flathead#2]

Idk if anyone has said it yet but AL post a map that shows the expected rut times on their main website. It is also pretty in-sync with the OnX southern rut heat map. For what it is worth, I have found deer to be rutting a bit behind it this year in 3 different rut zones. I basically start in Choccolocco WMA / Zone E and work my way down through Clay and Cleburne counties as the rut changes.

I grew up hunting those WMA's and NF.
I still get up there occasionally.
Good stuff.

 

[BrowningGuy88]

I saw those hotdogs. Are they any good?

Yeah they are good! Once you go to conecuh sausage, it’s hard to go back.

 

[AlabamaMountainMan]

I grew up hunting those WMA's and NF.
I still get up there occasionally.
Good stuff.

It sure is pretty country out there. Tough deer hunting but great for turkey and small game.

 

[lhbackcountry]

Decided to take up a buddies offer to come hunt Alabama in the "off" season this year! Never been before but excited to be hunting deer in January that are about to rut! Going to hunt some of his ground and may hit up some national forest. I supposed most people take their climbers for those pines? Anybody from down thata way know how the rut is looking so far?

Saw this too late.. Had a small 6 chasing last weekend.. A few solo bucks still not tied down yet either from my cameras.

As I am sure you saw, cold front pushed almost 1 foot of snow into Louisiana and its been cold enough in south bama with flurries that my fingers hurt typing indoors

 

[lhbackcountry]

x2 on conecuh. its good for the soul and belly