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Question for people who hunt around simmesport/marksville

Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:33 pm
Posted by A_bear
baton rouge
Member since Sep 2013
1960 posts
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:33 pm
I have a 5 day stretch to hunt, Friday-Tuesday, and wondering if people who hunt that area are seeing deer rutting. Thinking about heading back up to yancey and doing some tent camping and bow hunting. I hunted the whole week of Christmas and saw smaller bucks chasing, just wondering if it’s still going down in that area.
I hunted Sherburne today and found some scrapes and rubs, but the weekend crowd there is ridiculous. I’ve been weighing the pro’s and con’s all evening and narrowed it down to this:
Sherburne pro’s: there’s scrapes on the ground so they’re probably rutting. I can go home every night and shower and sleep in a warm bed.
Sherburne con’s: the weekend crowd of bow hunters, squirrel hunters and rabbit hunters.
Yancey pro’s: less people and easier to get away from.
Yancey con’s: it’s going to be in the 20’s and get down to the teens by Monday night and I’ll be in a tent. No shower or shitter. Don’t know if they’re rutting still.

I’m all for freezing my arse off if the deer are chasing, but I don’t want to waste my 5 day stretch on post rut deer. I typically never ask for info on what the deer are doing, but can someone who hunts up there help me make my mind up?
Posted by Ol boy
Member since Oct 2018
2928 posts
Posted on 1/9/24 at 8:40 pm to
quote:

I’m all for freezing my arse off if the deer are chasing, but I don’t want to waste my 5 day stretch on post rut deer.

If I had a chance to not be around as many people I would do that. Make a trip for two days and if the woods are poison in marksville then redirect and go fight the fudds close to home?!?
Posted by Bawpaw
Member since May 2021
916 posts
Posted on 1/10/24 at 8:32 am to
Stay in a hotel in Natchez or at the casino in Marksville.
Posted by shellbeachspeckzzz
nunya
Member since Jan 2024
250 posts
Posted on 1/10/24 at 8:55 am to
yancey might be your best bet. bundle up and stay as warm as you can and i think you'll be alright. i would do anything to go next week but i dont have enough pto
Posted by Koolazzkat
Behind the Tupelo gum tree
Member since May 2021
1694 posts
Posted on 1/10/24 at 8:56 am to
Scratch RKY and head to the south tract of Tunica hills wma. Hunt the creek at the end of north 1, 2 or 3 trails. You’ll see some chasing next week.
Posted by Captain Rumbeard
Member since Jan 2014
4061 posts
Posted on 1/10/24 at 2:56 pm to
There's a Hampton Inn across from the casino that's reasonable and fairly clean.

Not sure I'd be basing anything on scrapes or rubs in January. May be different there but I doubt it's that different. You're in post rut. There will be some does that didn't get raped well enough last cycle that might be coming up now but that's probably not many of them and you'd have to be the luckiest dude in the world to come across one in daylight.
Posted by AP83
Cottonport
Member since Sep 2009
2710 posts
Posted on 1/11/24 at 8:22 am to
It's definitely not post rut here in Marksville. It's the heat of the rut right now.
Posted by LPLGTiger
Member since May 2013
1288 posts
Posted on 1/11/24 at 10:17 am to
Deer are rutting right now. I hunt just outside of Marksville. They have been chasing for a week or so now. I’d imagine with this big weather push it’ll have them in overdrive. Don’t stay in a tent. It’ll be balls cold in the teens. Get a hotel in Marksville. Last weekend I heard they killed 15-20 deer in the Lake Ophelia lottery hunt.
Posted by A_bear
baton rouge
Member since Sep 2013
1960 posts
Posted on 1/11/24 at 2:23 pm to
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Don’t stay in a tent


I appreciate the report. I’ll be in yancey for the weekend. Still not sure if I’ll actually get Monday and Tuesday off with this weather coming. I have a heater for the tent and stayed in it in the 20’s and it wasn’t bad at all. I would get a hotel, but between Missouri in November and 2+ weeks in airbnbs around Louisiana, I’m deeper in room fees hunting public land than most guys are in lease fees, so it’s tent camping for the rest of the season for me
Posted by LPLGTiger
Member since May 2013
1288 posts
Posted on 1/16/24 at 9:28 am to
Give us an update baw. How was the tent in this weather? Hope you’re safe and got a big one!
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