Ill go ahead and tell you from my experience from of living in AL and hunting all my life, the best time to kill a big buck is the bow season and the first weekend of rifle, the are still bachlored up and very easy to kill in pastures and corn if you have any. At least for the past 4 years ai have seen 5-10 bucks every time i go. I hunt in Fitzpatrick and also have a farm on lake martin.