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Tensas this weekend - 12/4 - 12/5
Posted on 12/1/21 at 10:28 am
Posted on 12/1/21 at 10:28 am
Heading to Tensas NWR this weekend for a hunting/scouting trip. Have a week long trip planned after New Years.
Looks like it is also primitive weekend. Poor planning I suppose. What should I expect as far as overall pressure and hunters? Will it be WWIII?
Looks like it is also primitive weekend. Poor planning I suppose. What should I expect as far as overall pressure and hunters? Will it be WWIII?
Posted on 12/1/21 at 11:10 am to JPB
If you don’t speak Cajun French you might want to learn hand signals or another means of communication.
Hwy 65N looked like an ISIS parade last week.
Hwy 65N looked like an ISIS parade last week.
Posted on 12/1/21 at 11:20 am to White Bear
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Hwy 65N looked like an ISIS parade last week.
Feds moving illegals?
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Posted on 12/1/21 at 11:48 am to JPB
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Looks like it is also primitive weekend.
Niiiice. I'll be stationed on 65 Sunday around Newelton drinking a blood and watching the exodus heading south. It is a sight to behold.
This post was edited on 12/1/21 at 11:49 am
Posted on 12/1/21 at 12:47 pm to JPB
Primitive weekend is typically the most crowded weekend of the season. Especially with what's considered "primitive". Hopefully there's a few deer left after the first lottery hunt last weekend. You're almost guaranteed to see a few hogs...they're everywhere this year. Best of luck, wear your orange.
Posted on 12/1/21 at 3:23 pm to jdawg44
Well that’s a kick in the nuts but kinda what I was figuring it would be like. Oh well. Beats the hell out of being at work or honey do’s around the house
Posted on 12/1/21 at 4:29 pm to JPB
quote:It will be close. That can be a miserable place when you are bumping into folks every 4 steps.
Oh well. Beats the hell out of being at work or honey do’s around the house
The good news is that most of the coonasses dont like getting more than about 200 yards off a road, so if you do a little walking you may can get some peace.
Posted on 12/1/21 at 5:01 pm to tigerfoot
I’m curious how many of y’all actually hunt Tensas. I spend a decent amount of time out there and rarely have other hunters walk up on me while I’m hunting or vice versa. If you get away from the main roads and trails it’s not that bad. But as far as scouting and just walking threw the woods this is probably not the best weekend for that.
Posted on 12/1/21 at 5:08 pm to JPB
Get 100 yards off the road and HUNT. Pressure pushes the deer to layup near the roads. Not kidding. Find some sign and hunt. Let the people push the deer to you.
Posted on 12/1/21 at 6:04 pm to JPB
Very overrated. Noting like it was years ago due to bears and hogs. Overall deer numbers are very low. Like another poster said, plenty of hogs to shoot.
Posted on 12/1/21 at 7:57 pm to tigerfoot
My buddy and I got into saddle hunting this year and are fairly new to the public land stuff. Grew up hunting on private property over feeders and food plots. Neither of us have ever hunted Tensas but we’ve heard all the stories. This weekend is more about finding some spots deep in the woods for our January trip when hopefully the bucks will be on their feet and less people in the woods
Posted on 12/1/21 at 8:10 pm to jmkidder
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I’m curious how many of y’all actually hunt Tensas. I spend a decent amount of time out there and rarely have other hunters walk up on me while I’m hunting or vice versa. If you get away from the main roads and trails it’s not that bad. But as far as scouting and just walking threw the woods this is probably not the best weekend for that
It really ain't that bad if you're willing to work. Like others have said most folks want to walk 200 yards and are happy with a button buck or yearling doe.
Posted on 12/1/21 at 11:47 pm to JPB
Definitely not less people in the woods in January. Especially the first week.
Posted on 12/2/21 at 11:16 am to jmkidder
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I’m curious how many of y’all actually hunt Tensas.
Hunted it a couple years. First year found a spot, killed a mature buck.
Next year, went later in the year (rut) tried to go to the same spot, there were hunters everywhere. We walked 9 miles in one day trying to find a place to hunt.
Gave up after that year and started hunting out of state.
Posted on 12/2/21 at 6:46 pm to Farmtiger
The amount of hunters hitting buckhorn, big lake, and tensas over Thanksgiving weekend was the most I have seen in the 5 yrs I've stayed up there.
5am the highway was like baton rouge
Also, it is a dry year. People will hunt much deeper thank historically because no muddy swamps to cross.
5am the highway was like baton rouge
Also, it is a dry year. People will hunt much deeper thank historically because no muddy swamps to cross.
Posted on 12/3/21 at 9:10 am to jimjackandjose
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Also, it is a dry year. People will hunt much deeper thank historically because no muddy swamps to cross.
In a wet year, there's no where to go without a boat/pirogue and knowledge of how to get where you are going and what's above the water line.
Those without that walk 9 miles and can't find a tree further than a 100 yards from someone else.
Posted on 12/3/21 at 10:02 am to Farmtiger
I've had good hunting in the wet and dry years. But this one is unusually dry and last time it was like this, I had people crawling all over my spots
Posted on 12/3/21 at 10:23 am to jimjackandjose
Say boss, where dem spots at?
Posted on 12/3/21 at 11:21 am to JPB
Truth: Tensas is just not worth the trouble anymore. Over Hunted with tons of pressure, Congested with hunters that just don't know what they are doing and show no respect, Bears have destroyed what some call the best hunting areas from back in the early 2000's. Honestly I'd go somewhere else. Game wardens are there by the dozen, not that its a bad thing but they are borderline harassing at times and ruin at least one hunt each time i go by just randomly walking in the woods checking hunters. Pisses me off to no end. But that's another post. Now if you enjoy a guys trip, cooking, drinking, a few lies around a camp fire. Thats the place to be. Sorry to be so blunt but it is the truth.
Posted on 12/3/21 at 1:17 pm to Farmtiger
Not on tensas ha
True story though. The big bucks hug the waters
True story though. The big bucks hug the waters
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