Rodney, MS

[JMallard]

Does anyone on here hunt around Rodney, MS?

[RB]

JMallard.... I have a friend who just started hunting in the hills around Rodney... I have heard the hunting is great anywhere around that area... ducks in the bottomlands and deer everywhere. You in a club around that area?

[JMallard]

Just duck hunt down there around Rodney Island. Heard that all of the IP land down there has sold. Wondering if anyone on the LA side kept there lease.

[duforester]

[peewee]

[RB]

[Crowell]

[getsome]

Having hunted the bottoms around Rodney for almost 20 yrs, you are correct there is really good hunting in the area. The individual who is buying up all the land in this area( 20,000+ acres so far) is managing it for ducks. Sounds good so far right. He is taking it all out of hunting,no ducks,deer etc. Hundreds of hunters in this area have been displaced and are looking for new places to hunt. What do you think this will do for already high lease prices? If you can find a place to hunt, there is now a 20,000+ acre, and growing every year, refuge managed for waterfowl that will never be disturbed. You can't compete with that. I guess I'll be hunting divers on the big muddy this year. What is the world coming to!

[timberjack]

IP has been selling land in other areas as well. Last year Weyerhaeuser bought everything they had in Webster, Choctaw and Winston counties. Not exactly sure of the acreage but I know it was several thousand. Weyerhaeuser turned around and sold tracts that would be more beneficial as hunting tracts or recreational areas. To my knowledge IP hasn't sold any of their land in Leake or Attala county but I'm not sure about that. I guess after closing their mills there's no need to keep the land base.

[JMallard]