re: Maurapas wma

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I promise Phil and CoCo weren't the only ones back there hunting ducks. I hunted out of Big Casino Hunting club(used to be on the corner of Petite Amite and New River where the check station is now) with my Step-Dad and it was the exact opposite, being that everyone hunted ducks and only a couple hunted deer. I can remember trading hunts with either McElroy or New River hunting club a couple of times where we let them hunt our lease for deer and we would hunt ducks on their lease just to change it up a bit. I started hunting back there in 85 with my Step-Dad and your description is pretty much spot on. Man the sky was full of mallards! Like swarming mosquitoes sometimes. Got into a roost a couple of times and the damn things were practically landing on our heads. We used to be able to drive from the pumping station, down new river spoil bank to hunting camp on corner of petite amite in our trucks lol. Good Memories!!

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I looked at a map, and found the places you referenced.....that was for sure the same contiguous swamp, but really far from us. I'm not sure how far a man can hear "duck gun rumble", but that's for sure too far for us to have heard it. You are right in that there were obviously other folks in there though. I know some of the Lutcher boys (if y'all are from down there, y'all know the likely suspects...I'll just use nicknames/initials...."Stick", the son of a well known area planter - RIP/died much too young, "Frog", and SN - as well as other folks last names start w/N - used to hunt the same swamp, but they went in via Blind River. That's closer to us than your area, but still pretty far (I think) from where we were.