Crickets

Y’all see where the director of the Mississippi dept of wildlife got busted for hunting over a field baited with crickets?

https://www.supertalk.fm/wildlife-c...egedly-baiting-turkeys-in-holmes-county/

https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/mississippi-wildlife-commissioner-cited-turkeys-bait/

Buddy just sent this. What in the cornbread hell???

how many crickets we talking about …….

We finally found out who wild bill is 😂 must be a good sanctuary

😂😂

Comes right before the vote the confirm him in MS senate…interesting timing

My goodness

Sounds like a political witch hunt to me

Can you be in possession of crickets if you got a fishin pole in the truck? Askin for a friend

Just how many crickets does it take to bait a 500 acre plot. A million? More? Sounds like a load of bullchit to me

Think about it like this.... If you are going to the trouble of baiting a field with some dern crickets..... they should write you a ticket for being the worst turkey hunter to ever pick up a shotgun. That's fact. I mean really.......

it was a frame job

Incorrect. Our director is Mr. Lynn Posey who is a good man. This is one of the Commissioners who "set the rules" for hunting. This is also one of the commissioners who ignored the recommendation of our biologists and made baiting legal for deer. It's past time to have some qualifications for rule makers. One such would be to have a biological background and not some "good ole boy" who has connections with the governor who appoints these positions.

My mistake, thanks for the correction.

No problem. The entire fiasco makes this state look really good. May God Bless the wardens who have to protect this resource (wild turkey) and make people do right.

Those crickets must have been free range in the big pen.

it was a great idea just dumb for getting caught

Any contact info on where you buy the crickets? Need to remember not to buy from them..

Isn’t a wild Turkey a Federal Bird? If so will the charges be stiffer?

I drop them from my drone while I'm roosting birds in the afternoon.

No

Thanks

Wonder a crickets rate and distance of travel…

Looks like that would be kinda hard to prove unless they just got caught in the act of putting them out

Only thing I think. Someone ratted on him.

I think Bill is right. He said he checked the feeders and they were empty. How could you possibly check for crickets, and how many crickets would it take to actually draw turkeys? I'm not sure it would ever be possible.

I thought it was an April Fools joke when I first read it. Seems likely to me someone is out to get him

I was told a turkey could hear a tube of crickets at night from the roost a mile away. Their ears are specially tuned to that frequency or something

How could they tell the difference in all the other crickets between the tube and them in a mile… I agree they do have a very awesome gps system built into that little head and can hear really well… but that’s a little far fetched to me.

Now that the word is out, how bad will this inflate prices? I am thinking about selling DG stock and putting that towards Zoo Med's or Flukers cricket farm. What's a good company that makes cricket tubes?

And if he’s feeding those zoo meds the turkey ain’t gonna hear a chirp cause those ain’t breathing!

You mean you don't know facts on this? Do some charts.

All I know is……you can dang sure hear that kinda stuff at night, especially from 40-50 ft up in a tree.