Originally Posted by abolt300
No agenda. I’ve run clubs and held big leases since the early 90s in multiple counties. Washington, Covington, Choctaw, Marengo, Wilcox, Clarke, Dallas. Smallest was around 800 acres, most 2000-3000 acres. When you control big pieces of property, you touch a lot of smaller surrounding properties. All were low membership and high member/acreage ratios, so it was a fairly controlled group of guys. Rare was the year that we didn’t kill multiple deer, on our managed, non-baited property, that showed up at our skinning shed full of corn. I’ve helped game wardens make a bunch of baiting cases over the years. Call it in and report it, show the GW where you think it is occurring and then let them access across my property to bust the neighbors baiting their smaller inferior property just across the line, who mistakenly thought the GW would have to come in off the highway, or by their house, the same way they were coming in. Lot more of it going on than people would think. If you didn’t control a big piece that touched a bunch of other parcels, you’d never know. Happened enough that I lost all faith in people actually following any of the game laws in this state. I’m sure others have similar experiences.


Only difference now is that they can pour out a truckload and don’t have to hide while doing it and hunting over it. The tonnage of corn is definitely more because they no longer have to be discreet about it. They were doing it plenty back then too but it was 5-50lbs at a time, not 500. But it still pulled deer and they still shot everything that showed up at the pile.

Last edited by abolt300; 01/18/24 09:44 PM.