Question for you LA hunters.. Why do so many of yall deer hunt in MS?

The Ms bottomland is great regardless of the side of the river, and there is a decent amount of Ms land on our side. Just one reason.

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hard to swallow

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Land is cheap in Mississippi.

He mad we chootin deers!

More deer hunting land in Mississippi. A lot of people from the NO and BR metro areas hunt in MS, because it is a quick drive for them and cheap. Most of S LA is nastyass swamp.

its where my land is...been in the family since i was born

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I think there are more deer in Ms and probably more rack bucks, but bigger, more massive bucks come out of la.

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How do you figure that? I would think it's about the same.

I agree with him, and I think its' because of the rules. People can and do shoot spikes all day long in LA. In MS the minimum antler size for bucks is 12" inside spread or at least one 15" main beam near the Mississippi River basin, and something like 10" spread or at least one 13" main beam everywhere else (I think, I'm not sure about the second set of numbers).

Where I live at least (in LA) I know people just walk the swamp and shoot every damn thing they can jump up.

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Seems like the farmland and river Delta in north la produces heavier horn deer than the hillier, cliff terrain in MS. They may take bigger bucks in north Ms, but this has been my analysis. Not saying there aren't big bucks over there

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Alright you've got a point there for South MS where there is a bunch of extremely hilly land. But there's a bigger Delta in MS than LA, a lot of river and large creek bottoms that produce big bucks in MS. The rolling hills in central and north MS can also produce big bucks when managed right. I'm lucky enough to get to hunt a creek bottom, hill land, and delta land in central MS, and the delta and bottomland is head and shoulders above the hills of south MS.

A lot of Louisianians don't know about parts of the Delta and a lot of the smaller creek bottoms. IMO, it's because a lot of it isn't talked about by the people who have it. We can afford what we have, but we can't afford for a lot of people to know about these little spots then have a land grab competition. There's a lot of people who have their little piece of the pie that nobody knows about, then you walk in their house and they have 3 or 4 150 inch deer on the wall.

I'm not trying to get in an argument with you, but i'm of the belief that if LA produced bigger bucks, I wouldn't see ten LA trucks lined up on the side of the gravel road that borders one of my little spots and a WMA where they're walking a mile in to bow hunt instead of staying in LA to gun hunt.