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re: Deer lease

Posted by 257WBY on 1/14/26 at 10:37 am to
Put an add in Mississippi Market Bulletin

HLRBO app

re: Deer lease

Posted by 257WBY on 1/14/26 at 6:33 am to
OnX is the tool you need.
The app is getting data from the parish/county. OnX is a great guideline, but I wouldn’t try to use it in court.

IST 1/14/26

Posted by 257WBY on 1/14/26 at 6:26 am
Madison Parish
Shooting house on long lanes
300 WBY
You should be able to find a ballistics chart for both.

re: IST 1/13/26

Posted by 257WBY on 1/13/26 at 3:22 pm to
Madison Parish
Box blind between lake and river
257 WBY
Yes. Baiting is allowed in Louisiana.
The work around is to release more tags.

re: 4 hunters , 5 hunts , no deer

Posted by 257WBY on 1/11/26 at 6:28 am to
Acorns aren’t sour because there’s been very little rain. Agree with others that acorns are still dropping. Good year for the deer. Not so good for the hunter.
I was on the River in Mississippi one morning and set up in open hardwoods along the edge of a two year old cutover with high grass. I rattled and called in a group of three bucks that circled me like sharks. When they’d get downwind of me and get skittish, I’d snort wheeze and they’d calm back down. This went on for at least five minutes. All of the bucks appeared to be three years old and just under club requirements. It can work in the Deep South, but you need to setup where you can cover downwind and isn’t very effective in areas on intense pressure.

re: Whitetail deer hunts in Illinois.

Posted by 257WBY on 1/11/26 at 6:17 am to
If you’re a rifle hunter, consider states where the rifle you normally hunt with is legal and gun season is open during the rut. Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky. Also, consider Canada.
I’d like to see a season in late August or early September when the bears are in the cut corn fields. Much easier to find a big boar then.

re: 4 hunters , 5 hunts , no deer

Posted by 257WBY on 1/10/26 at 7:38 am to
Our deer moved fairly well on Tuesday, but not much at all after that. Deer sightings for the year have been about half of what we usually see.

re: IST 1/10

Posted by 257WBY on 1/10/26 at 6:46 am to
Madison Parish
Shooting house on field edge with long lane going back into CRP
300 WBY
Main line has passed

re: Trail Cam Batteries

Posted by 257WBY on 1/9/26 at 8:01 pm to
I have a wise eye using lithium in Kansas. It’s been up there since mid September without a battery change.
Colorado gets very crowded. Montana and Idaho are much better fly fishing. Son worked four summers at Henry’s Fork Anglers in Island Park, ID. They run trips and are great folks to deal with. They’re about 30 minutes from West Yellowstone and have trips on a variety of waters.
Tyler Treece is an exceptional guide and he works out of Big Sky Anglers in West Yellowstone these days. Book a trip with him now before all his days are gone.
We had a hunter take a good bear (465 lbs) and we were contacted about another tag holder late in the bear season. We declined on the second one, as we didn’t have the other big bear absolutely locked down and our bucks were starting to move good.
The season structure is such that it interferes with the deer hunting in Madison Parish.