Togo Island/Swamp Donkey Sting

So all of the wardens in MS. haha

Are the Primos guys still doing hunting show in MS? I know Jimmy was getting up there in age and they went thru a couple different places recently after Will sold his place.

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Many of the Primos guys are still doing stuff, just under other names. Some are in the real estate biz. Jimmy has a gun store in Madison. Brad ditched Togo several years ago. I don’t know for a fact, but I think it was over some typical camp drama.

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Brad gotten real big into real estate (great guy btw), he has a place in Claiborne he’s flipping with his partner, all the others are filming with Walker at cottonwood killing swamp donkeys.

That Claiborne tract is a good deal, whether they’re flipping it or not. Brad lives on an absolute gem of a spot in Hinds cty that he bought when he sold his Togo holdings, or so I’m told.

Instant gratification (baiting) will be the downfall of deer hunting. Hide and watch.

Back when ATCo had clubs all over the river bottom, those were the good ol days.

I was an ATCo hillbilly but I had some buddies in the swamp. Got to experience a little bit of it. I’ve ditched the lease and bought my own place, but you’ll never convince me that today’s deer hunting is better. If I could snap my fingers and go back 25 years, I would in a heartbeat. Spikes and all.

A few of the members knew what they had back in the day. Not many, but a few.

I have a family member who owns river bottom land very close to there. And I can tell you that when it's good, it's great. But when it's bad, it's awful.

We basically had high rivers for a decade. The 20 teens from about 2011 to 2020. One year (i can't remember but maybe 2018) that place would have been covered with water as late as AUGUST.

It absolutely devastated the deer. And they didn't just come rushing back either. Numbers were way down for years, even in the hills adjacent to the river. Because essentially does that got stressed either aborted or their fawns died or they never got pregnant.

Deer numbers in those areas just got back to normal within the last year or two. And they definitely aren't back to where they were 20-30 years ago.

Imagine spending millions on a place and not being able to access it for months on end. No electricity at your camp. All tbe food spoiled. The camp mildewed and musty. Roads covered with logs and flood debris. Culverts washed out. Huge piles of sand randomly dumped by the river. Deer stands with twisted ladders.

Now imagine dealing with that basically every year for a decade. And then having basically no deer or turkeys to hunt during that time.

No thanks.

I grew up hunting the river not far from Togo. But I'm glad that chapter is over.

Give me paved road frontage, year round access, no flooding, stable wildlife populations, and no river gage anxiety.

^^^ This is what the old guard at Togo understood that the FU Money crowd did not, or didn’t care.

They managed what they could manage, but weren’t going to spend a stupid amount of money with an uncertain return.

The place starts taking on water when Vicksburg is at like 22’. The hunting is electric when it’s at 25’. It’s inaccessible and there’s not a deer on the island at like 30’ or something. These numbers aren’t exact, been a minute since I kept up with that, but kind of puts it into perspective. The place low ground.

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They should be sent to Angola for naming a hunting club Swamp Donkey

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When I first heard that I honestly thought it was a bad joke.

Like something a cheese ball at the level of Michael Wadell would come up with.