So Nutterbuster has decided that he wants to take a stab at filling his buck tags with something a little more impressive this year. To that end I complied a spreadsheet with all 68 Alabama counties containing data on B&C records, P&Y records, Alabama Whitetail Records (AWR), 2020-2021 buck harvest numbers, county population, and a few other variables. I'm still playing with that data but I put together a "trophy buck heat map" of sorts and have identified 10 hotspot counties that produce something like 75% of all the trophy bucks. They form 4 clusters and 3 of those clusters have public land in them. 2 of them have a fair amount of property that is within 3 hours of my house.
The goal this year is to hunt those areas every weekend I am free. I have a few stand locations local that have produced bucks pretty consistently, but by the numbers Baldwin County is just a crappy location and 20 years of hunting experience backs those numbers up. I'm saving those stands for rainy days.
I've gotten fairly proficient at long distance hunts, but this will be a new stretch for me. The plan is to leave every Friday night and come home Sunday evening. I'm thinking I can get by with this because the wife and I work from home together and I can bring her along for fair weather weekends.
I guess my question is, for guys who routinely do the weekend thing, what are some tips? Who all routinely has to drive for their hunting?
The goal this year is to hunt those areas every weekend I am free. I have a few stand locations local that have produced bucks pretty consistently, but by the numbers Baldwin County is just a crappy location and 20 years of hunting experience backs those numbers up. I'm saving those stands for rainy days.
I've gotten fairly proficient at long distance hunts, but this will be a new stretch for me. The plan is to leave every Friday night and come home Sunday evening. I'm thinking I can get by with this because the wife and I work from home together and I can bring her along for fair weather weekends.
I guess my question is, for guys who routinely do the weekend thing, what are some tips? Who all routinely has to drive for their hunting?