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From 1999 to 2003, I would visit the Check Station on the Cahaba River Wildlife Management Area at the close of each season and jot down the harvest statistics that were/are kept on a chalk board under the shed at the station.  The table below shows the information that I collected on these trips up until the close of the 2002-2003 hunting season.  In 2004, the Alabama Department of Conservation Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries began making detailed harvest information available on their web site.  Since then, I have only recorded the number of total kills as indicated on these reports.

The reports can be found in their entirety below.  They contain very detailed information about the results of each hunt on every Wildlife Management Area in the State of Alabama.  They are a statistician's dream come true!  I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions; however, here are a couple of my personal observations:

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Since the close of the 2001-2002 Season, the number of deer harvested annually on the Cahaba River Wildlife Management Area has increased by 226% when compared to 2005-2006 harvest data.  Surprisingly, the number of hunters has remained relatively constant through the same time period.

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In the period from the 1999-2000 hunting season through the 2003-2004 hunting season, you could expect (on average) to harvest a deer on the Cahaba River Wildlife Management Are after investing 38 days of hunting.  The man days per harvest for the 2005-2006 hunting season was 18.

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Last year it took 18 man days of hunting to harvest a deer on the Cahaba River Wildlife Management Area.  About half of the Wildlife Management Areas in Alabama took less man days.

 

2005-2006 Wildlife Management Area Deer Harvest Report

2004-2005 Wildlife Management Area Deer Harvest Report

2003-2004 Wildlife Management Area Deer Harvest Report

 

 
  1999-2000 Gun 2000-2001 Gun 2001-2002 Gun

2002-2003 Gun

 2003-2004 Gun 2004-2005 Gun 2005-2006 Gun 2006-2007 Gun  
Total Harvested 37 33 41 49 48 84 93    
Does 0 1 0 8          
Bucks 37 32 41 41          
Heaviest 195 lbs 225 lbs 238 lbs 220 lbs          
Best Rack (subjective) 11 pt 10 pt 10 pt 9 pt          
Oldest Deer 10 Yrs 4 1/2 Yrs 5 1/2 Yrs 8 1/2 Yrs          
Permits Issued Buck 1292 853 1359 1511          
Permits Issued Either Sex   79 136* 345          

*136 is the number of youth and/or female hunter permits that were issued.  Each of these permits was for the harvest of a buck or doe.

 

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