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What are the key dates for Alabama 2024-25 hunting season including for deer, turkey and waterfowl
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The Alabama hunting seasons are about to get started in some cases with others coming in 2025.
The first season to get started is dove, which started on Sept. 7. Waterfowl, squirrel and rabbits seasons start on Sept. 14. Here are the key dates for the 2024-25 hunting seasons in Alabama, with notes on restrictions and bag limits.
Key dates for 2024-25 Alabama hunting seasons
Fishing
The licenses for the 2023-24 season expired on August 31 and 2024-25 fishing licenses went on sale Sept. 1.
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When is deer hunting season in Alabama?
While the specific dates depend on what zone are you reside or are trying to hunt in here are the approximate dates for around the state. For more on each zone, including what zone you are in, click here.
- Bow and Arrow: October 15, 2024 to February 10, 2025
- Private or leased land (Deer stalking): Nov. 23 to Feb. 10, certain restrictions differ between zones
- Open, permit public land (Deer stalking): Nov. 23 to Feb. 10, certain restrictions differ between zones
- Private or leased land (Dog deer hunting): Nov. 23 to Jan. 15, certain restrictions differ between zones
- Open, permit public land (Dog deer hunting): Nov. 23 to Jan. 15, certain restrictions differ between zones
When is waterfowl hunting season in Alabama?
For specifics on seasons or bag limits and other regulations, click here.
- Youth and military dates: Nov 23. and Feb. 8
- Rail, Sora and Gallinule: Sept. 14-29 and Nov. 29 to Jan. 21
- Special Teal season: Sept. 14 to Sept. 29
- Duck, Coot Merganser: Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 and Dec. 6 to Jan. 31
- Geese: Sept. 7 to October 6, Oct. 19 to Nov. 2, Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 and Dec. 6 to Jan. 31
When is turkey hunting season in Alabama?
While it depends on the zone like deer hunting, turkey season runs from March 25 to May 8, with youth and special hunts the two days before. For more on zones and special hunts or specific dates, click here.
- Zone 1: March 25 to May 8
- Zone 2: April 1 to May 8
- Zone 3: Fall season is Nov. 16-24 and Dec. 14-29. Spring season is March 25-May 8
When is squirrel hunting season in Alabama?
Squirrel season is Sept. 14-March 2 in Alabama. There is a limit of eight a day and eight in possession.
When is rabbit hunting season in Alabama?
Rabbit season also runs from Sept. 14-March 2 in Alabama. There is a limit of eight a day and eight in possession.
When is raccoon hunting season in Alabama?
There is no closed season in Alabama for hunting raccoons and they can be hunted during the day or night. On private land there is no bag limit, but on open permit or public land there is a limit of five per party. Dogs can’t be used during daytime on open land or after 3 p.m. during spring turkey season.
When is opossum hunting season in Alabama?
There is no closed season in Alabama to hunt opossum and no bag limit. Dogs can’t be used during day time on open land or after 3 p.m. during spring turkey seasons.
When is beaver, nutria and groundhog hunting season in Alabama?
There is no closed season in Alabama to hunt beaver, nutria and groundhog and no bag limit. They can only be hunted during daytime hours.
When are starlings, crows, and house sparrows hunting seasons in Alabama?
There is no closed season in Alabama to hunt starlings, crows and house sparrows and no bag limit, they can only be hunted during the daytime hours.
When is snipe hunting season in Alabama?
The hunting season lasts from Nov. 9-Feb. 23 with a limit of eight per day. The hours are from one-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
When are mink, muskrat, otter and striped skunk hunting seasons in Alabama?
The season runs from Oct. 26-Feb. 28 for mink, muskrat, otter and striped skunk. They can only be hunted via trapping.
When is dove hunting season in Alabama?
Dove season lasts in the north zone from Sept. 7-Jan 19, with some gaps. In the south, it lasts from Sept. 14-Jan. 19. Click here for zones and specific dates.
When is sandhill crane season in Alabama?
The season has two periods, the first is from Nov. 29-Jan. 5 and the second from Jan. 13-Jan. 26. The hunt is by limited quote permit only, click here for more.
When is bobcat, coyote, fox and feral swine season in Alabama?
There is no closed seasons on bobcats, coyote, foxes or feral swine but there are restrictions based on the time of year and location, click here for more.
When is bullfrog and pig frog hunting season in Alabama?
There is no closed season for bullfrogs or pig frogs and they can be hunted anytime of day. There is a limit of 20 frogs per person from noon to noon the next day.
When is Alligator hunting season in Alabama?
Alligator season is by special permit only and the registration opened on June 4, 2024. For more on alligator season in Alabama, click here.
What animals in Alabama are not allowed to be hunted?
According to Outdoor Alabama, there is no open season in Alabama for bears, mountain lions or ruffed grouse.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers reunite with former Alabama State cornerback
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After 11 days on the roster of the Carolina Panthers, cornerback Keenan Isaac is back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Bucs cut Isaac when they reduced their preseason roster to the regular-season limit on Aug. 27. He landed on the Carolina Panthers as a waiver claim on Aug. 28. But on the eve of their Sunday season-opener, the Panthers waived the cornerback.
On Tuesday, Tampa Bay announced Isaac had been signed for its active roster.
The Buccaneers reunited with Isaac after placing cornerback Bryce Hall on injured reserve. Hall was carted off the field during Tampa Bay’s season-opener on Sunday, when the Bucs beat the Washington Commanders 37-20.
Two other Tampa Bay cornerbacks left that game – starter Zyon McCollum with a concussion and reserve Josh Hayes with an ankle injury. The playing status of those players for Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions has not been announced.
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A football and basketball standout at Midfield High School, Isaac became a starter in the Alabama State secondary as a freshman.
Isaac entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie on Tampa Bay’s practice squad last season. The Buccaneers elevated Isaac to active status twice during the season, and he got on the field for 11 special-teams plays apiece in a 26-9 victory over the New Orleans Saints on Oct. 1 and a 20-6 victory over the Tennessee Titans on Nov. 12.
Isaac spent three weeks on Tampa Bay’s active roster after his two appearances but did not play again.
Isaac intercepted a pass in the Buccaneers’ 17-14 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Tampa Bay’s preseason opener on Aug. 10. In the three preseason games, Isaac played 77 defensive snaps and 22 special-teams plays and made three tackles last month.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.
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Mississippi State Reportedly Hosting Alabama Commit Caleb Cunningham
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According to Chad Simmons of ON3 Sports, the top football recruit in Mississippi, 5-star receiver Caleb Cunningham, will be in Starkville this Saturday.
Cunningham is from Ackerman, Miss., just 35 minutes from the Mississippi State campus.
Mississippi State and first-year head coach Jeff Lebby seemed in an excellent position to land the 6-1 190-pounder back during the spring, but lost the momentum. The out-of-state schools began to get Cunningham’s ear with visits to Auburn and Alabama before making his pledge to the Crimson Tide official.
Five-star @calebcunning13 doing what five stars do!
Big YAM Cunningham! pic.twitter.com/HTWRerzBBX — Rion (Ree-un) Young (@MacCorleone74) August 24, 2024
In the past, Mississippi State would have a tough time landing a top receiver due to the lack of explosive offenses, but Lebby changed all that. The former Oklahoma offensive coordinator runs an offense appealing to receivers – he can go after the top ones.
However, Lebby is an unknown head coach, which likely made Cunningham a little hesitant to commit to Mississippi State. Alabama has a long history of producing great wideouts like Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, Devonta Smith, etc. and it’ll be a fight to get him.
🐐TALK @juliojones_11 pic.twitter.com/V8AYfgoPPh
— Caleb Cunningham ✝️ (@calebcunning13) September 10, 2024
New Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer also has a pedigree as a head coach, having led Washington to the national title game a season ago. It is hard for Mississippi State to recruit against Alabama, but with a kid so close to home, there is always a shot.
The key for Mississippi State to land Cunningham is for Lebby’s offense to deliver on the hype.
If Mississippi State can put an explosive offense on the field for the remainder of the season and build momentum heading into the offseason, it might a legit shot at landing its first 5-star since CharlesCross.
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Can Kalen DeBoer solve Alabama Football’s recent road woes?
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New Alabama Football coach Kalen DeBoer has an early chance to endear himself to the Crimson Tide’s fanbase. If Alabama can go out and dominate Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday afternoon, it will buck a recent trend of road woes that has plagued the Tide the last few years and give Tide fans even more reason to be confident that DeBoer is the right successor for Nick Saban.
During the peak of Saban’s dominant run in Tuscaloosa, it didn’t seem to matter who Alabama played or where they played. There was typically a game here or there that would be closer than it should’ve, and there were a handful of upset losses thrown in the mix, but for the most part against teams Alabama should handle, they handled. Anybody, anytime, anywhere.
Damion Square once famously said in the locker room years ago, “we runnin’ in they house, we blowing that ***** up, and we going home.” And that’s what the Crimson Tide did time and time again.
Whether it was a four-touchdown win over No. 8 Georgia in 2015, a 39-point win over No. 9 Tennessee in 2016, a 29-0 shellacking of No. 3 LSU in 2018, or the dominance of every opponent the 2020 team faced, Alabama seemed impervious to the road struggles that typically plague college football teams across the country.
Road games are notoriously difficult. So, it’s not a flaw in Alabama that they’ve looked like everyone else on the road over the last three seasons, but it was an obvious chink in the armour of the Saban machine that had begun to leak a little bit of oil.
Alabama narrowly avoided an upset to an eventual 6-7 Florida team in the Swamp in 2021. It took stopping a two-point conversion with 3-minutes left on the clock for Saban’s team to escape unscathed. A few weeks later the team dropped a road game to an 8-win Texas A&M. 6-win Auburn gave Alabama all it could handle in the Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare, with the Tide narrowly escaping with a win in four overtimes.
2022 was more of the same. 8-win Texas nearly pulled a week two upset in Austin, with Will Reichard hitting a game winning field goal for a 20-19 win. Alabama lost on a game winning field goal a few weeks later at Tennessee, snapping a 15-game winning streak in the Third Saturday in October rivalry. That loss prompted the infamous Will Anderson quote about anxiety that sent the fanbase into a frenzy. Alabama’s next road game was an overtime loss at LSU.
Alabama went unbeaten on the road last season, but they had a forgettable performance against South Florida, a close win over Texas A&M, and then needed a miracle in the Iron Bowl.
From 2011-2020, Alabama was a ridiculous 38-4 in 42 true road games, good for a winning percentage of 90%. Since 2021, the Crimson Tide is 11-3 on the road, a 79% winning percentage. Winning 79% of your true road games is an impressive feat, particularly in the SEC in some of the most raucous environments in college football. But it is telling that over a 10-year span Alabama lost only one more road game than they have in the past three seasons.
Camp Randall Stadium is widely considered one of the toughest places to play in college football. EA Sports ranked it 7th on the toughest places to play list for the new CFB25 video game. But, Madison hasn’t exactly been a house of horrors for ranked non-conference opponents.
Per Jesse Temple with the Athletic, Wisconsin is 1-9 against Top-10 ranked opponents at home in program history. Their lone win came way back in 1974 and the Badgers haven’t even faced a Top-10 non-conference opponent at Camp Randall since a blowout loss to Miami in 2001. If you move beyond the Top-10 and just count ranked opponents, the numbers aren’t much friendlier: Wisconsin is 3-19-1 all time at home against ranked non-conference opponents.
Wisconsin is 2-0 to start the season, but it’s a shaky 2-0. They won by 14-points each against overmatched opponents in Western Michigan and South Dakota in the first two weeks. So while this environment won’t be easy, Alabama should be able to win and win comfortably, if they are to be taken seriously as contenders.
More difficult road tests await the Tide, with trips coming to Knoxville, Baton Rouge, and Norman on the docket. This Saturday, we’ll get a good gauge of how Alabama might fare moving forward away from home, and if Kalen DeBoer has immediately reduced the anxiety that bothered the last few Saban teams.
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