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375 H&H yup that ought to do 😉

Well.....we could make this the Alabama Canon hunt.

I haven’t killed a deer with my Rem 700 8 mm RM in some years. It’s sighted in with ammo ready to go.
Hadn’t thot about bringing it......but it’d work.

I found this in addition to the USFS maps.

https://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/wildView?WID=556&tab=Maps

BTW: If you want to do some good virtual scouting, download the free version of Topofusion. It has topos and aerial imagery of the whole US. The cool feature is it also allows the topo and aerials to be viewed in 3-d. The 2 map layers I use the most are "My Topo" and "USGS Aerial Imagery". I've been using it in conjunction with Google Earth for years. Gives me something to do at lunch time in the off season...............

In addition, if you want a personalized map, you can use Topofusion to zero in on your area, go under "File", "Order Printed Map" and it takes you to My Topo to finish your design. I have waterproof maps of all my hunting areas.

This file sheds a bit of light on the weird rut in Alabama.


Alabama deer conception dates

Scroll down to the map. I have a pdf of a better map and explanation but can't figure out how to put it in this thread.

I've done a fair bit of investigation into Alabama deer and even joined a lease down there not far from the Bankhead. Alot of timber company property in that part of the world. The Bankhead is part of the Black Warrior WMA. I talked to several biologists down there and all pointed to BW as the place to shoot a nice buck. They all mentioned the deer density is fairly low. Black Warrior does have the earliest rut of any of the WMAs in the state. Now that you guys are headed down there, my interest is renewed. I'll try to get down there for scouting in November. I like the trail system in the Sipsey.

Is anyone bringing a defibrillator for the old dudes...grin

South is weird ruts for sure. I've hunted deer in GA that were in the rut around Halloween. Just across the Chattahoochee river in Alabama, they were rutting the end of January.

Bring it!

Hope so.

Yup Bankhead NF and Black Warrior WMA Have two distinct ruts, the northern section ruts early November like the original Michigan deer that were brought in to the area years ago. The southern portion has a later rut that hits early to mid December, this was learned last year by talking to a fellow that literally lives and hunts the whole season on Bankhead. He was very successful and had a few nice bucks to show including the one his daughter took while we were there. Like you said the deer density is low but there are some real monsters taken out of there each year. I’m using the app huntstand to overlay topi and satellite imagesetters along with property lines. Some private land is within the Nation Forest so the property line stuff really helps. I can mark up the map plan routes know distances and share the maps I create with a group. Extremely useful and it’s free.

Next year we will probably hunt the Freedom Hills WMA bear Florence as the deer density is much better but we know nothing about the area yet.

Contact me when you plan on scouting maybe we can get together.

Yup my family small property in south Al ruts end of January to early February thankfully they extended our season till mid February now. There were a lot of years we didn’t get to hunt the rut before they did that.

I’ll be slumming a 243 maybe a 30-30 if I can stage the one I have my eye on.

You know,you can borrow one of my rifles if you want?

Will have a new Kimber to bloody and either a 7600 or 30-30 Marlin trying to make up my mind which one I want.

Y'all PLEASE don't confuse me. Those 2 are perfect.

WELL..... how about that Kimber ? keepin something from us?

Kimber Hunter 243 will wear a fixed 6 Meopta. Should have it in two weeks.

Kind of getting horned up about this 7600 I’m looking at. Will know by the end of the weekend if I can work out a deal on it.

What is the 7600 chambered for?

You know,I could play musical scope and put a Leupold 3x on the .35 Whelen.

Or,bring a Ruger M77 .240 Wby,

Maybe a .257 Roberts or .25/06.

So many rifles I can choose from.