Anyone hunt the Poplarville MS area?

My familys land is right in between poplarville and bogalusa off of hwy 26.

We have pretty much every chain eatery you want on MLK Jr Blvd. Have a couple decent boiled seafood / fried seafood places Big Al's on tunnel blvd Cajun Critters a little further down tunnel and 1921 on Barrow. If you want a more relaxed meal with some cajun music there is the Jolly in on Barrow street and also Bayou Delight on bayou black near Gibson both have live cajun music on the weekends for supper.

Place i am looking at right now is northwest of the city of Poplarville and appears to be down a couple miles of dirt roads. looks like larger properties around that are pretty much completely wooded except for a food plots. Definitely don't want something with a bunch of red necks in trailers all around me hunting the place while i am not there.

I've hunted the poplarville area the last few years. You arent going to kill a trophy but you can fill the freezer with doe meat. We had tons of hogs on our property a couple years ago, they seem to have moved on, although im sure they will be back.

eta: everyone runs dogs, and they dont care where they go, probably 25% of the hunts i made got interrupted by dogs

I have a place east of there in Perry County and I know a guy just NW of there in Lamar County. Like you say there won't be many big bucks, but there are deer.

Hunting pressure is key; try to find out how hard the neighbors hunt and if they are still hunters or hounders.

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Yeah definitely going to have to take a ride out there and see for myself.

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I hunt not far from there. I would be looking for empty beer cans and four wheeler tracks, and that will tell the tale. People (and dogs) around there aren't too talented at recognizing property lines. EVERYONE hunts, even if they don't have a place to. Property owned by out of towners makes a great place for kids to mudride and drink beer.

That said, you could have a great little honey hole if you can keep the tresspassers, joyriders, and dogs out. You won't kill any monsters, but the bucks that do make it past 3.5 are definitely worth shooting.

My place backs up to that trail/road

My camps in that area. Little less than 700 acres off of hwy 43


People love to tresspass in that area.

Been hunting that area all my life and have never owned a Mississippi license. I've never seen a game warden out there.

the game warden in that area lives down the road from us on Stanford Lake road. He's a Poplarville local. Really nice guy and seems like he tries his best with the trespassing, but we had issued a few years back as well. Not so much now. He's never bothered us once. We did run into him not too long ago and said he was retiring soon because he wanted to run for sheriff. I don't think he won, so I don't know if he went back to being the game warden.

Went look at the property this past weekend. It would be great for a hardcore hunting tract but 2 miles of non-county maintained road coupled with not level campsite full of stumps was most of the deal breaker. No way you are getting a motorhome of fth wheel back there not to mention it was recently thinned and would be damn near impossible to bush hog in its current condition. Plenty of deer sign though.