re: Any of you baws hunt Thistlethwaite WMA?

I hunted often in the late 80's, early 90's. Never once encountered logging. Pretty sure it all began around 2002 (20 yrs ago), and is still being done today. I don't blame the family one bit for logging THEIR land. Some gorgeous hard wood, bottomland timber worth lots of $$$. Logging and clear cutting helps the wildlife as I'd love for TW to eventually have a huntable, sustainable turkey population. The pigs were hit or miss in the early 80's. They migrated wherever they wanted. As of late, the pigs are everywhere and the LDWF traps them during the offseason.

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cut all the palmettos

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I agree but you can't get rid of that stuff, it's worse than kudzu. If you miraculously got rid of the palmettos, there would be 10,000 Baws from Evangeline and Allen Parishes hunting TW every day and the deer would go nocturnal.

Now we’re gettin’ somewhere haha.

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been known that a sneaky individual cut such a trail that begins in the thicket, not to a road. You need the gps lat long to get to the beginning. It likely is one man wide and takes you to a honey hole.
I would guess that a deer buggy fits on it.

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I used to use a few of these in Tensas. Made hauling deer out easy. They'd stop about 100 yards from the 4wheeler trail.

I would speculate that bypass pruners would work better than anvil pruners.

these individuals probably listen for gobbles early march mornings, then work on their trail seeing how it is probably still cold.

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Take some kind of heavy machinery in there and make some inner roads-

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I do this with my e-bike.

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We’ve marked blood trails that way.

Last year I finally used Huntwise, and I was able to mark some waypoints.

All compass before last year..

There were plenty of times I wished I had it.