Alabama public hunting land around Chickasaw

Hunting areas around Chickasaw

The access column says what it takes to hunt each place: a WMA license and area permit, a random draw, a disabled-hunter reservation, a free Corps permit or the refuge rules.

By size, Mobile-Tensaw Delta and W.L. Holland Wildlife Management Areas (51,040 acres) leads the 10-mile list. Hunters 16 and older on Mobile-Tensaw Delta and W.L. Holland Wildlife Management Areas need a hunting license, a WMA license and the free area permit, then check in for the day on paper or in the Outdoor Alabama app. Its biologist is Jared Knight, (334) 530-1765. Shooting houses at University of South Alabama Foundation Physically Disabled Hunting Area are booked by qualified disabled hunters. Splinter Hill Bog Complex (Forever Wild) is Forever Wild land: carry a hunting license and the free permit map and follow the county seasons. The WMA dove field page shows 1 field at Perdido River Wildlife Management Area (8 acres planted on the first).

Quick notes on land by Chickasaw

• Mobile-Tensaw Delta and W.L. Holland WMAs: Baldwin and Mobile Counties, north and south of the causeway; 51,040 acres; hunted for turkey, waterfowl, deer, rabbit, squirrel; deer by stalk only (permit PDF)
• University of South Alabama Foundation PDHA: 4,462 acres; listed game: deer
• Upper Delta WMA: Baldwin & Mobile Counties near Stockton; 42,451 acres; hunted for deer, turkey, waterfowl, dove, rabbit (permit and map)
• Grand Bay Savanna WMA: Mobile County near Grand Bay; 5,151 acres; listed game: deer, turkey, waterfowl, dove, rabbit; stalk hunting for deer (area permit map)
• Grand Bay NWR (Alabama portion): 2,610 acres; species: deer, waterfowl, dove, squirrel, rabbit

Lands from ADCNR WMA, SOA, PDHA and Forever Wild pages and layers, the 2026-27 area permits, USFS, USFWS, NPS, Corps and installation records (lands.json; each land page cites its own source). Boundary miles from places.json, other miles to each mapped point. WMA rules from the ADCNR Where to Hunt page. Checked November 1, 2026.

Limited-quota ground around Chickasaw

Within a 45-mile drive of Chickasaw sit 2 Special Opportunity Areas and 1 disabled-hunter area. This season the SOA deer draw window ran September 1 to September 14, 2026. Physically disabled hunters reserve PDHA dates after ADCNR approves the application.

From the ADCNR Special Opportunity Areas page and the 2026-27 PDHA map packet (lands.json); deadlines from regs.json. Checked November 1, 2026.

Butchers and mounts, Chickasaw

Listings come from Mobile County and the counties bordering it, ranked by miles from Chickasaw; big-box chains without a hunting counter are left out. Knock Em Out John Deer Processing, 33 mi off, takes field-dressed deer for food banks at no charge to the hunter. Stockton Deer Processor collects CWD samples for ADCNR. Shoulder mounts and fan mounts start with Southern Trophy Taxidermy, 7.3 mi out. Forgot the orange or pink? Bow Hunter Pro Shop in Saraland is 1.7 mi away. The 35-mile count of deer processors from Chickasaw is 3.

Processors

Mounts

Gun and bow shops

Processors from the ADCNR Hunters Helping the Hungry list, the ADCNR CWD sampling page and its drop-off map, and Yellow Pages; taxidermists, shops and preserves from chain store locators and Yellow Pages (services.json). Checked November 1, 2026; hours were not checked.

Upcoming dates around Chickasaw

Within roughly 30 miles, soonest first, there are 4 upcoming dates: DU chapter dinner, Learn to Hunt workshop, NWTF chapter banquet and hunter education course. Checked November 1, 2026.

On the calendar

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Chickasaw sunrise and sunset

ADCNR prints one sunrise and sunset table for downtown Birmingham and warns that other places can differ by 10 minutes or more, so the times below are worked out for Chickasaw.

Mobile-Tensaw Delta duck hunting ends at 1 p.m. on open days.

Hours rules from the 2026-2027 Alabama Hunting and Fishing Digest; sunrise and sunset worked out for this location (NOAA solar formula, Central Time), checked against the Digest’s Birmingham table; checked November 1, 2026. Legal hours for every county.

Chickasaw hunting FAQ

Answers from places.json, lands.json, counties.json, services.json and the 2026-2027 Alabama Hunting and Fishing Digest; Game Check from the ADCNR Regulation Book, hunter orange from ADCNR, baiting from Code of Alabama, Sunday hunting from Code of Alabama 13A-12-1. Checked November 1, 2026.

Before leaving Chickasaw

Distances here are straight lines from Chickasaw; every WMA, draw area and federal property has its own rules, so read the land page and the 2026-27 Digest before going.