After intense deer restocking efforts from 1940 to 1960, Alabama's whitetail deer populations went from a few thousand to what could now be nearly two million. Yes, that's quite a few deer, but the reality is that the trophy-book bucks are going to be tough to find. There's one whitetail deer that breaks into the top 100 of all-time, and then the entries drop off a cliff. That doesn't stop the roughly 180,000 deer hunters heading into the Alabama pines to try and fill the freezer. After all, antlers don't make the venison taste any better.