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Re: Wilcox County
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06/03/21 12:53 PM
06/03/21 12:53 PM
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abolt300
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In general terms, all are pretty decent in that area. Further north in Wilcox up toward Lamison and the other side of the river toward Camden have better genetics IMO. Historically, that Pine Hill area has also had a very strong/healthy population of locals there, that will watch over your property for you on a regular basis and keep your place hunted for you when you are not up there. If you're on the north side of 10 and west of the mill, I'm probably familiar with the property you're looking at.
Last edited by abolt300; 06/03/21 12:56 PM.
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/03/21 02:36 PM
06/03/21 02:36 PM
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ColeT
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I wouldn’t go there expecting much. I looked at that land a month ago and we were supposed to have the lease. But it looks like money talks. So just a heads up. it could be a different piece but it’s almost the exact location
Last edited by ColeT; 06/03/21 02:41 PM.
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/03/21 03:03 PM
06/03/21 03:03 PM
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abolt300
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I wouldn’t go there expecting much. I looked at that land a month ago and we were supposed to have the lease. But it looks like money talks. So just a heads up. it could be a different piece but it’s almost the exact location If it is the property that I am talking about, that land comes up for lease every couple yrs. Owner uses it as a buffer between his personal property and the locals coming in off the RR tracks. For what it is worth, I passed on it 5 yrs ago, when I was looking for some "shooter land" to take clients/guests on, to just see and shoot a deer, so that we didnt have to take them hunting on our managed place. Heard it was back on the market the following year and he was trying to get it leased to someone else. I know it has changed hands at least 3 times since I passed on it 5 yrs ago. My FIL and some of his buddies had that same exact piece leased back in the early to mid 90's and let it go after just one year then.
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/04/21 07:38 AM
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BhamFred
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about, is that the old Bonner tract? has a RR ruling thru it, low land on one side and red clay hills on the other. If so I had it leased in the late 70s for several years. Good number of deer but a buttload of poachers.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/04/21 11:14 AM
06/04/21 11:14 AM
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abolt300
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about, is that the old Bonner tract? has a RR ruling thru it, low land on one side and red clay hills on the other. If so I had it leased in the late 70s for several years. Good number of deer but a buttload of poachers. That's the one. FIL said they'd come up and find fresh shotgun and rifle shells up and down the tracks and in all their shooting houses every time they showed up to hunt. Couldnt leave a climber out on it for more than a couple days without it disappearing. Said same thing you said. Good numbers of deer and still saw deer every hunt. Local pressure kept most mature deer nocturnal and my FIL was a lot like you and knew if he kept it, he'd end up having to kill or seriously hurt someone on it. Based on what I could tell when I looked at it, things hadn't changed much over 45 yr period during which both you and he had it, to current day. The children of the poachers you dealt with in the 70's were the poachers my FIL was dealing with in the 90's and their kids are probably the ones poaching it now. It seems to be a generational trait that is passed down. People were nice as could be when you see them around PIne Hill but they just are not going to stop hunting it when you're not there. I deemed it not worth the headache.
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/04/21 11:36 AM
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abolt300
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Is that close to the area where the guy got killed by some local thugs a few years ago? Sounds close to where I remember. Probably 7-10 miles south as the crow flies.
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/04/21 01:23 PM
06/04/21 01:23 PM
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BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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abolt, those poachers used to walk down the RR tracks and hunt the land. BIL caught two of them one day and they told him straight up they were going to hunt and he could stfu about it.
best thing about that place was when the mill blew its horn every morning every gobbler in ear shot would gobble.
I had that place and the old KImbro gravel pit leased together. Gravel pit was full of arrowheads and stone tools.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/06/21 09:27 PM
06/06/21 09:27 PM
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JohnnyLoco
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Had land close to an old slave settlement called Campbelltown near bouts Bear Creek and Alabama River closest town Lower Peach tree. Drowned my first big buck, 240lb 12 point in the river 1978.
Poachers in the area, heck yeah. Leave them alone…in your best interest
If y’all are referring to “thugs” as being black folk, its just as I remember. I learned a lot from those guys. In fact, you could do a television show about their hunting and fishing and it would go number one.
Its a small world too, I was sitting in a craphole in Africa and I started making small talk with a young black Army Ranger, I asked him where he was from, he said “Sarge you’ve never heard of where I’m from. I’m from Lower Peach Tree Alabama”. I chuckled then strung him along a journey into his initial disbelief and awe. Both of were ordered to stay put and direct air support while watching the whole little battle. It was hard on both of us.
Just to add to the world being small thang, I was in Kuwait and ran into a crazy guy from Wilcox county named John Champion, who we would run some deer drives with from time to time. He was working over there on government contract.
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/07/21 08:50 AM
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JohnnyLoco
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I’m not defending them, I said leaving them alone would be in the best interest. No double evil from me friend, just letting you know, I know what they are.
I can tell you how I really feel if the Admin agrees not to ban me for “Critical Race Theory”, “Racist”, or “Politically correct” reasons.
I understand “thug” was being nice.
Try not to judge a race by the bad apples or us white folk are in trouble.
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Re: Wilcox County
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06/08/21 09:25 AM
06/08/21 09:25 AM
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CNC
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Last edited by CNC; 06/08/21 09:27 AM.
We dont rent pigs
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