CaptJJ

Yep, same problem I've been having.

Look at SKB, they are great quality over and unders for the price.

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you can have your suboptimal hunting ground and good pig hunting. Frick a pig and anybody who advocates for their existence and sport hunting.

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The fact I got told F you over my comment is why I seldom every comment on anything, and why I don't have social media. I'm not advocating at all for or against hogs either way. They exist on this landscape and have for as long as my European ancestors have, and I enjoy hunting them. One thing you are 100% correct on, my hunting land is suboptimal. 100 acers of cutover briar patch and willow thickets, half of which floods from the pearl river. With all the king's gold it would never be some whitetail haven. But I live on it and hunt it and the public land that surrounds me hard and get to watch all the wildlife and impacts they have daily.

I don't doubt for one second hogs destroy crops. I know they do and have witnessed it firsthand many times. The point I meant to get across that perhaps I didn't articulate well is that the crop they are tearing up has already in and off its self-caused tons of impacts to native wildlife. An entire 16th section that has been nuked with roundup to kill every native plant, the gorund knifed in to kill every small native rodent and then planted in a GMO nonnative soy bean or corn isn't a healthy representation of a native environment, even if it might well help grow big whitetail antlers.

I've hunted in Iowa, norther MO and western NE for a couple of decades now. No hogs to be found. 10 to 15 years ago we use to hunt a ton of farmland just on permission alone, before leasing was even a thing up there. Every famer that ever gave us permission to hunt hated whitetail deer with a passion. If they could eliminate them from the landscape they certainly would, they are nothing more than an impact to their bottom dollar. Everyone that ever gave us permission would always strictly instruct us that we had to fill every doe tag we had in order to hunt, they could care less if they are left out in the field to rot.

I also don't for a second think everyone that hates hogs only does so because they were "told" to. Perhaps I tossed that out too generally. I think that is the case for many. Most others hate them because of either a financial impact, or because of their impact to another species they prefer to hunt. There are countless TV shows where they are hunting giant bucks and nuisance hunting does in suburbs full of mcmansions. Whitetail deer actually thrive in close proximity to humans. It would seem you can have large healthy populations of deer in environments that are not at all a representative of a healthy "native" environment. While MS has one of the highest hog densities in the country, we also have the highest whitetail density, both growing. Both deer and turkeys are expanding there range within the US. Not sure on deer, but there are states in the US where they have, and you can legally hunt turkeys where they were not native to that state. They have been introduced and flourished through conservation programs, but that large bird that was not originally native to the area is impacting food and carrying capacity to some other creature.

Perhaps I didn't articulate the log landing point well enough either as I was hurrying to type from my phone. Hearing somebody rant that hogs are destroying the property, while we stand in a log landing full of treetops and heavy equipment, on a lease that has been clearcut of all native trees, planted in a GMO pine tree, then sprayed as those trees develop, to me is an intellectually dishonest argument.

And hours, will come down to how it's maintained. If probably maintained and it's a good deal, I wouldn't be scared of a couple thousand hours, most of those 4cyl type engines are good for 8 to 10k hours if maintained.
Most of the compacts are not going to have enough hours to be broke in.

I live on the Carriere/Poplarville line, on the west side. My land borders old river wma. There is some great deer hunting along the bottom land of the pearl river in carriere and poplarville. Try and do your homework best you can, because I've found hunting quality can vary greatly around here from area to area withing just a few miles. There are lots of hogs, and turkeys seem to be making a good comeback in pearl river county. I've been up here since 08, I'd be glad to any specifics i could about a certain area.

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I've used these people for perforated aluminum sheet for a few jobs I've done. They probably have what your wanting, they are generally not cheap

When I was building my current home, which is on a piece of acerage I hunt on, I had a period of time where I had a bunch of equipment and such as well as my shop built and wanted to keep eyes on it before I had my road fully gated. I bought the Reolink cellular security cameras. I have three of them now and they have been fantastic. Since the house is done, I've moved two of them to feeders and they work as well or better than any trail cam, and you can pull them up in real time and have full pan tilt zoom.
I had the same issues with all the other cellular game games I tried, seems they would work a few weeks or month at best before they would stop transmitting and r require pulling them and a customer service call

5th year putting in for archery in zone 4, unsuccessful. Should finally get it next year. Will be hunting the MO side thr border again this year I guess.

It's always been required for any boat under 20'
Most get around it by issuing a state hull number. LA use to actually sell most of the builders mentioned state issued hull numbers, this would be the same type hull number you would end up getting with a home made boat. It was common to have a hull built by a builder with a builder code assigned to them, but the hull number on your hull would start with LAZ
The big change is on the mudboat and airboat hulls. Most all builders, myself included, had exemption letters that allowed for thr surface drive hulls to be built without foam. Same thing for airboat hulls. The coast guard has done away with that, now requiring level flotation equipments for sub 20' mudboats and basic for airboats.

When I built my new place last year, I built my shop and started moving some equipment out here before I had my gate up and place secured. Not that I'd had any issues, but bought 3 of those Reolinks to watch over my shop, equipment and road. They worked flawlessly for that, and as soon as the house was done, it left the one up at the entrance gate to my place and moved the other two onto feeders. My only cell came experience prior to this was with spy cams, which were terrible for me, but the reaolinks have been fantastic and completely trouble free for two years now. No problem ever logging in, can pan tilt zoom remotely and you can remotely format the SD card. I have been very pleased with them.