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 Welcome
to the Whitetail Adventures website! Here, you will
find information about my lease and whitetail deer management
practices.
With close to 200 acres, I have a small lease with perfect habitat for
trophy whitetails.
My
lands are very diverse and range from large white oak bottoms to rolling
hills with
 mature pines. I maintain numerous high-quality food
plots on my land which greatly benefit the nutrition and the
size of the deer herd. Alabama
has one of the most liberal hunting seasons in the country. There are
over 100 days you can
hunt whitetails here in Alabama, and you can take up to two deer
per day--one buck and one doe, or two does. A good hunter can
quickly and easily fill his freezer with meat with the existing
bag limits.
 Deer aren't the only creatures roaming around
in these woods. There is a very healthy population of turkeys. Each year,
I add in seed such as chufas which is a big favorite of turkeys. My
lease has been under a strict management plan for
seven years
now, and we have seen a great increase in the population and quality of
the deer thanks to my practices. I plant several food plots on my lands with choices that have high nutritional
value. Lablab, tropical corn, soybeans, and peas are
planted each year in the spring. This helps attract new deer to our
land, as well as feeds and
maintains the current population of resident whitetails. In the fall,
I will plow up some of the spring plots to make room for fall/winter plots.
The tropical corn typically becomes mature and begins being utilized by
the deer around the first week of bow season. If there is a good corn
crop, I leave it standing.
You can find more information about this and other topics on our
management page. My lands have everything
you would ever want want to hunt--hardwood bottoms, both mature and young planted pines,
thickets, and beautiful creek bottoms.
 The
Summit Plot Mule has helped tremendously in getting in tight little
spots where a tractor can't go. To be honest, we haven't even used a
tractor once to do anything to our fields since I purchased it. The Plot
Mule has taken over those duties! It easily tills even the hardest
virgin soil that you can throw at it. Unfortunately, Summit ATV Products
has discontinued its product line, so the Plot Mule is no longer
available for purchase anywhere.
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2008-2009
Alabama Seasons and Bag Limits |
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Go here to check out pictures from our trail
cameras as well as deer we have taken off our land.
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Archery season: October 15 - January 31
Muzzleloader: November 17 - 21
Rifle: November
22 - January 31
**2008 - 2009 Bag Limits for Alabama**
Two does per day, or one buck and one doe per day. 3 bucks total
per hunter per year. Hunters must keep a harvest record of bucks
and turkeys during the 2008-2009 season.
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Current News
Be sure to check out
HuntinAlabama.com!
They are the fastest growing forum for everyone who loves the
outdoors in our state!
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2-2-09 It has been a while since I last updated this
site thanks to a fried motherboard in my computer. If you are
unable to contact me on my website e-mail, please e-mail me at
AbbevilleHunter@aol.com.
The 2008-2009 Alabama deer season is now over. This season
was very good for us. Off of my lease, there were 4 bucks and 3
does taken. I got to see many nice bucks, a ton of does, and
even had a close encounter with a 6 point that mistook me for
another deer. Christina got to shoot her first deer this year--a
big doe! Then I ended the season with a nice 170 pound 8 pointer.
Now the work to prepare for next year begins. I am going to
attempt an idea I have to collect shed antlers. If it works I
will post the results on this website! Below are some pictures
of the deer that Christina and I both took along with a couple
little field pictures.
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11-18-08 It is now muzzleloader season. No more stick
slinging until October 09! Throughout archery season, I saw
several nice bucks that I wanted to take a shot on, but they
were always just too far or didn't offer a decent shot.
An interesting note is that the bucks are beginning to make
rubs and scrape lines. We don't normally see this behavior until
the latter part of December or early January. I believe that
with the unusually cold temperatures and the full moon, the deer
are getting a little frisky. Maybe even a doe or two went into
heat?
Saturday marks the opening day of rifle season here in
Alabama. I wish everyone across the state the best of luck and
stay safe on opening day!
One of my new food plots
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10-24-08 Archery season is going great this year. I
have seen deer every time that I have been out. All the food
plots are doing great. A bulldozer came in and did some road
work and added a couple new plots for me. I just got those plots
planted yesterday, and within minutes of planting, the rain
began! I cannot wait to see what these plots look like at the
end of next week. Here are some pictures of a couple of the new
plots that I planted.
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10-16-08 *Archery Season is underway*
Only 48 hours into bow season and I have already gotten a doe
and seen a ton of deer. With the full moon, they are moving late
in the morning, around 9 and 10:00, and then again I am seeing a
lot of deer just after the sun sets at 5:50. This afternoon, I
took a doe eating in a corn field at 20 yards at 6:04.
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10-7-08 I am doing a lot of things at the hunting land right
now in preparation for opening day which is next week.
Rain is finally on the radar after a month long drought, so
today I will be planting a couple food plots. As soon as I get a
bulldozer next week, I am going to be expanding one of my food
plots in size. It will go from being just over 1/4 acre to over
2 and a half acres in size. This is going to dramatically
benefit the deer herd by introducing more high-quality food. As
soon as the work is done, I will post pictures of the new plot
right here in the news section.
I have a question for all of you hunters. Have you ever used
Harmon's Deer Scents? For years, I was hooked on Tink's #69,
and it seemed to work fairly well at the right time of the
season, but after trying Harmon's scents, I couldn't believe
what I was missing. I was thoroughly impressed by the quality
and hooked on Harmon's products. I have been using Harmon's deer
scents for over three years now, and the quality, attraction
power, and effectiveness of Harmon's scents is unmatched in the
industry. You don't get one small ounce of scent as with
most companies--you get two full ounces of scent in a spray
bottle. The spray bottle eliminates a lot of the mess that us
hunters encounter while using scents. These scents have no
additives, chemicals, or anything else of that nature--they are
100% pure deer!
In addition to whitetail deer scents, Harmon's offers a full line of scent products
including scents for elk, blacktails, mule deer, bears, cougars,
bobcats, coyotes, and many more animals. For deer, the Triple
Heat and Rutting Doe scents are great for pre-rut and rut
hunting situations. Or, if you prefer to spray scent on your
boots while walking in the woods, try their Interdigital Gland
scent. This is the scent that comes from between a deer's toes
that they use to follow other deer. I have seen many deer follow
my trail after applying the Interdigital Gland scent to my
boots. In the early season, you cannot beat the Bow Hunter's
Premium scent. I have used all of
Harmon's Deer Scents,
and I know these scents work. Take a look at their website and
all the different scents they offer, and if you have never tried
Harmon's scents before, buy a bottle! You will be impressed with
the results, and you will keep going back for more!
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10-6-08 Archery season opens up for us in 9 days. This
year, October 15th (opening day of archery season) falls on a
Wednesday. Opening day is an unofficial holiday in Alabama which
many people observe. I know there will be people all across
Alabama calling in sick to work and/or school to go hunting. Do
I blame them? Nope! I have done the same thing in the past.
The deer are chowing down on the food plots. It looks like a
lawn mower has gone over each plot. Our current drought
conditions (no rain for almost a month) has also put a hurting
on the food plots as well. Thankfully, there is finally some
rain in the forecast for us.
We now have another new website partner,
Trophy Score! They
have produced a wonderful software program which will judge the
score of a deer from looking at trail camera images. For those
of us who use trail cameras a lot, this is
software program well worth purchasing! I originally field tested this
software as a Life Member of the North American Hunting Club.
During my testing, I gave this software the best ratings.
Trophy Score is
simple to use with clear instructions, and it is accurate to
within a couple inches of the actual score of a deer. After
taking several bucks that were scored using the software, I have
only found on average a 3" margin of error from the true score.
My most accurate score was within 1" of the true score of an 8
point. That is outstanding considering these bucks were
digitally scored from trail camera pictures! Be sure to check it
out--you will not be disappointed!
Another great product I want to tell everybody about is
Harmon's Deer Scents. Throughout my hunting life, I used Tink's
or Code Blue's scents religiously, until I found Harmon's
scents. Harmon's Scents have proven
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9-24-08 I would like to welcome our newest
website partner,
Trophy Rock! For several years, I have used Trophy Rocks on
my lease, and no other mineral supplement or block attracts deer
better! It is also the only mineral supplement which is legal to
hunt over under Alabama's laws. No other block, other than plain
white salt blocks which have no real nutritional value, are
legal in Alabama. For hunters and deer managers who want to
maximize the amount of minerals the deer get 12 months a year,
try a Trophy Rock!
There are over 50 different minerals
available to deer in a Trophy Rock, and both bucks and does use
the Rocks continuously 12 months a year. Bucks heavily use
the Trophy Rock throughout the summer which greatly aids in
antler development. Does and yearlings use the trophy rock all
year, especially in the spring and early summer when fawn
development in does. The Trophy Rock provides the nutrients
critical for healthy fawns and mother does. Below are pictures
of my 2 newest Trophy Rocks. Check back on this website because
I will post another picture of each Rock in over the course of
deer season to show how they have been utilized!
Above is a Trophy Rock after about 30 days.
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9-22-08 You saw the pictures of the food plots below when they
were planted exactly 7 days ago with my custom seed mix. Here
are the pictures of what they look like now after one rain.
Close-up of Perennial Clover and Chicory
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9-15-08 The deer are beginning to shed the velvet on their
antlers now with only 29 days left until opening day of archery
season. Fall food plots have been planted. The deer absolutely
destroyed all the summer plots that I had growing this year.
Those plots have been tilled and planted with my own seed mix.
Here are some pictures from the land that were taken while
planting the fall plots.
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8-9-08 Here are some pictures from some of the food
plots taken today. The deer were moving pretty good this
afternoon with half of a moon straight up in the sky.
The deer have eaten all the seed of the sorghum plants from the
Maximize seed mix. They
destroyed the peas and soybeans in this plot a long time ago.
Here are two does I drove up on that were eating in another
Evolved Harvest Maximum plot.
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