I've seen the same thing at my place in Early Turkey season. Matter of fact had my dad and I not been sitting in my double bull last year we would have gotten run over by a nice 8pt chasing a doe. They came so close to my blind I fell out of my chair and was trying to climb up my dad to get out of the way when they came by on my side.

Why Alabama can't get on board as other states have and have a late season primitive weapon season or something. According to the article in the AL Rule book its not even on the horizon.