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Deer Hunting In North Webster Parish
Posted on 12/1/24 at 4:29 pm
Posted on 12/1/24 at 4:29 pm
This season so far and last year has taught me it’s just about borderline to impossible to hunt at the club I’m part of as much as I used to. Between the 2.5 or hour drive to Waterproof I have now and two young girls that aren’t quite ready for “camp life” yet it’s just hard to get down there on a somewhat regular basis. I still get to go fairly often and plan to still be part of the club for as long as I can financially bear it (been there since I was a kid and have an uncle who still hunts there I like to spend as much time as possible with while he can still hunt) but know eventually those days are most likely coming to a slow end and was thinking of looking into somewhere closer to go the weekends and days I can’t make it down there.
The wife’s family has about 100 acres of mixed timber around Shongaloo about an hour from the house that as far as I know isn’t getting hunted so I’ve got a hell of a starting point but I’m not familiar with the area or what it offers hunting wise. Any fellow OBers with knowledge of the area have any insight on it?
Many thanks in advance
The wife’s family has about 100 acres of mixed timber around Shongaloo about an hour from the house that as far as I know isn’t getting hunted so I’ve got a hell of a starting point but I’m not familiar with the area or what it offers hunting wise. Any fellow OBers with knowledge of the area have any insight on it?
Many thanks in advance
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Posted on 12/1/24 at 5:21 pm to Zap Rowsdower
Yes I grew up hunting the area. Shongaloo has some good deer, especially along dorcheat creek, but they get a lot of pressure. Lots of hunters in the area. Maybe you’ve got a nice honey hole and it works out. Just try for a year and see. I’ve seen some nice bucks come out from around there and Leton. Even on public land.
I hunted more toward the east side of Springhill and it was pretty brutal to manage deer on less than 500 acres. If it had antlers it was getting shot at by neighbors. Couldn’t get shite going on our 80 acres. Now hunting east and central Texas, I laugh thinking about how hard I hunted Webster parish just to see spikes and does every third hunt. It was a beating but gave me patience.
I hunted more toward the east side of Springhill and it was pretty brutal to manage deer on less than 500 acres. If it had antlers it was getting shot at by neighbors. Couldn’t get shite going on our 80 acres. Now hunting east and central Texas, I laugh thinking about how hard I hunted Webster parish just to see spikes and does every third hunt. It was a beating but gave me patience.
This post was edited on 12/1/24 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 12/1/24 at 8:08 pm to Zap Rowsdower
I might be your neighbor. I hunt just south of Shongaloo. There's a lot of deer. There's big bucks but they act like big bucks and go nocturnal as soon as gun season starts. You can catch one slipping that first weekend or bow season. I've seen a few. The rut starts early November with them checking scrapes in September till January. We just got our first sounder of hogs this year up in the hills. I used to hunt Dorcheat and that's a different environment entirely from the hills. There's too many does. Shoot does.
Also our game warden is a little hotty.
Oh, and bears are moving in.
Also our game warden is a little hotty.
Oh, and bears are moving in.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 8:19 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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Also our game warden is a little hotty.
The wife’s cousin
Posted on 12/1/24 at 8:20 pm to Wade Phillips
Appreciate the responses fellas
Posted on 12/1/24 at 8:26 pm to Zap Rowsdower
If you've got acorns, get cameras on them for the next year and figure them out. From what I can see the acorn groves in that sea of pines pull ALL the deer into them while they're dropping. Then the pattern changes and they disperse in December.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 8:31 pm to Zap Rowsdower
I live and work in the area. I saw a really nice buck driving to work a couple days ago. Lots of deer in the Shongaloo, Leton, Blackburn area. You probably won’t be able to manage for trophy bucks with 100 acres but there have been many great deer killed there.
Posted on 12/1/24 at 11:14 pm to mudcat tiger
I've talked to most of my neighbors that hunt around me and they all seem to be all pushing for everyone not taking small bucks. We don't. Although this year I did shoot a doe with a slick head that I looked at forever that when I went to drag her out turned out to have a cocknballz. Weird.
Tastes great though.
It will take a pretty serious wallhanger for me to pull the trigger on a buck these days. I've killed a mountain of them in Texas. But the cool thing about this area is you just might see that deer. My neighbor shot one that was in La Sportsman. 155" or something eight point.
Tastes great though.
It will take a pretty serious wallhanger for me to pull the trigger on a buck these days. I've killed a mountain of them in Texas. But the cool thing about this area is you just might see that deer. My neighbor shot one that was in La Sportsman. 155" or something eight point.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 12:45 am to Captain Rumbeard
“ slick head……………………turned out to have a cocknbalz”
I killed one like that at Tensas back in the ‘90’s.Shot it for a big doe,rolled it over to field dress and what a surprise.
Biologist at check station was shocked,said he had heard of that but had never seen one.Said he was glad I killed it.
Was slick headed like a doe,head was perfectly smooth,not even a bump on forehead.
I’m pretty sure I have one on my property.I was watching a doe at a feeder and suddenly took off like a scalded dog.Saw a,deer come up through the food plot,not very big,maybe 110 lbs.Was all over the food plot sniffing the ground,came up about 20 yds and with binoculars I could see no sign of pedicles.Left pretty quickly sniffing the ground all the way.
Afterwards,I wished I had shot it.
I killed one like that at Tensas back in the ‘90’s.Shot it for a big doe,rolled it over to field dress and what a surprise.
Biologist at check station was shocked,said he had heard of that but had never seen one.Said he was glad I killed it.
Was slick headed like a doe,head was perfectly smooth,not even a bump on forehead.
I’m pretty sure I have one on my property.I was watching a doe at a feeder and suddenly took off like a scalded dog.Saw a,deer come up through the food plot,not very big,maybe 110 lbs.Was all over the food plot sniffing the ground,came up about 20 yds and with binoculars I could see no sign of pedicles.Left pretty quickly sniffing the ground all the way.
Afterwards,I wished I had shot it.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 5:46 am to Zap Rowsdower
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The wife’s family has about 100 acres of mixed timber around Shongaloo
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as far as I know isn’t getting hunted
Posted on 12/2/24 at 6:15 am to LSUA 75
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I killed one like that at Tensas back in the ‘90’s.
Yep. We’ll still have one show up every few years where we’re at around Waterproof. Apparently that’s always been a hotspot for that genetic
Posted on 12/2/24 at 6:20 am to LSUballs
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as far as I know isn’t getting hunted
If you knew my FIL you’d see why no one has approached him about leasing it before
Really nice guy but a couple of motorcycle wrecks and brain injuries has caused him to become a bit… uhhh… let’s call it- eccentric
Posted on 12/2/24 at 6:27 am to Zap Rowsdower
Pick your times to go, but don’t ever give up going to Waterproof. You were a hunter when she married you.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 6:43 am to 257WBY
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Pick your times to go, but don’t ever give up going to Waterproof. You were a hunter when she married you.
Oh I’m staying there until we lose the lease or all get run from there
Like I told her a hunting club is a low supply thing these days and one where everyone gets along and enjoys being with another is even more rare and you just don’t leave somewhere you’ve been hunting at since you were 14. 22 years on a place is nothing to sneeze at just because the trip gets a little longer and there’s daddy-do’s.
Posted on 12/2/24 at 7:38 am to Zap Rowsdower
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Also our game warden is a little hotty.
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The wife’s cousin
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