Saturday morning, an untold number of men and women in Alabama will wake up early, grab a cup of coffee and maybe a quick bite of breakfast, then head out into the initial pre-dawn of the 2015-2016 gun season for whitetail deer.
Yes, it’s deer season in Alabama.
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