You get when you learn of a property you have hunted all your life just got sold and is now being clear cut. It has been so dry they are taking all the swamp chestnut oaks too. The timber in that swamp is virgin. I sure hope they aren't wanting to use it for anything. There's cotton spindles, screw in steps, and nails in just about every one of them.

Been there several times and yes it sucks

we just sold our 400 acre family property in TN....ownership was split between about 9 people (3rd/4th generation), none of whom could afford to buy out the others, keep it up themselves, or agree on a way to keep it in the family. Most just saw $ signs and refused to entertain anything but a sale. Only bidders were timber companies, so it will likely be cut here pretty soon.

I hate the thought of it, but it's been probably 12-14 yrs since I've set foot on the place and that likely wasn't going to change...at least not on a regular basis. And it's a shame too, because that was some primo land - about 250 acres of rolling hardwood with a couple of pine thickets on it, then about 150 acres of pasture mixed with swamp bottom, and several hundred yards of Hatchie River frontage.

My biggest regret is I didn't give 2 shucks about a turkey when I lived in Memphis and was able to hunt it regularly. Now I'm obsessed, and I'll never get to kill a bird off that land.

Yep buddy of mine lost theirs last month on the river (near steel mill) he's been there 20 year & his buddy 42 years.

I have that same feeling but because I’ll be moving to Orlando, FL.

DON'T DO IT! Orlando sucks all the way around.

That sucks what job u take down there?

That’s on you though. Not enough money in the world to get me to move there.

Yep got an offer from Brasfield and Gorrie I couldn’t turn down.

There's good land to hunt in Ocala. Plus they have Osceola turkeys. Deer aren't near as big as they are in central Bama but they rut in November.

I bet I know who bought the land and he’s bought everything up there that’s available..

Bet i know too 😀 Shot ya PM

Congrats on the new job. Line up some good Osceola properties down there and you will be overrun with aldeer turkey hunters in the Spring. Good fishing and golf down there too. Plus you can take Ben2 on a python hunt

Thanks guys. I’m familiar with the area it’s actually a home coming for me. I literally moved to Alabama after college to be closer to my family farm and good deer hunting. Just gonna have to change gears again. I’ve got unlimited access to 500 acres private land in Pierson, FL. Turkey hunting is good, deer hunting is not. That’s really all that not good there. All other kinds of game to hunt there is at least on par with what’s available in bama. The winters are what I’ll miss the most.

Scheduler position by any chance?

My popaw was a farm hand for a rich man when i was growing up. I got to hunt over 3k acres most weekends. From birth until i was about 20. Then the rich man died. His only blood was a nephew from out west. Never once saw him. My family took care of him non stop. No old folks home or health care. My family got 3 acres lol. The alcoholic nephew died 6 months after he inherited that mass fortune and estate farm. So the dead nephews wife got all of it. She leases it. Im not allowed on it. I know what ya mean boss!!! But it was awesome while it lasted!!!!

I worked for B&G back in the 80's....They sent me to Ocala....Orlando....Boca....Tampa... Stayed down there for almost 4 years....my HUNTING turned to Crap....Never had the time to come home. I told them you send me back to somewhere in Alabama or I'm leaving on my own in 2 weeks...I left!!! Went to B'ham....got a job within 1 week and my REAL LIFE once again returned!!! My nephew worked for them out of the Panhandle office until it finally closed....then he went out on his own. Excellent company....but You're just a number to the higher-ups...

If you are in the construction field Orlando is a really good place to be right now. Jilbuc congrats on the job, commiserations on coming back here. LOL If you have not been back in a while the changes in the Maitland area and Orlando as a whole since your little league baseball days are crazy. I have 3 years and 8 months until I can get out of this crap hole and come to Bama, not that I am counting.

Let me know if you get on an apartment job down there. We do a lot of work in that area.

If I moved back to Orlando, I'd be a hog and turkey hunting machine.