Let's put this OOS thing to rest.

[pntailhntr]

Who Farted?

OOPS Sorry

[Roach]

I thought I heard a Gadwall!

[pntailhntr]

No stupid, that was my fart!!

[Roach]

GO WIPE!

[pntailhntr]

It's OK, nothing there, I checked!! Just a stinky one!!!!

[cmwangsdixie]

Does having a aunt who was born and raised there, and still lives there, along with me growing going there all the time qualify me? hahahah

[mossyisland]

Is Tchula in the Delta. Because sometimes I think it is the African Jungle.

[Anatidae]

Hee hee, just out of curiousity why do you think any public ground is yours?

I don't know how you got the idea I thought it WAS mine.......but let me clarify something. I probably should have said, "I respect that when I go into someone else's woods", instead of "you gotta respect that........".

I never said I thought it belonged to me........my point is that I respect the fact that other folks hunt certain spots - maybe they've done so all their lives. Yes, it's public ground - but all I'm saying is that I think locals oughta be accorded some courtesy. I'm careful not to do anything that would make them resent my presence there......(even if it doesn't belong to them, either)....just by vitue of the fact that they don't want to have to drive any farther to get to a decent hunting spot, than I would.

I've seen a lot of folks over the years come into the area I hunt and their attitude seems to be......"Here, lemme show you how it's done"......and proceed to run over everybody to get to what they came for. That includes shooting at everything that moves, just because they bought shells, and they came to shoot........something........anything.

Just this morning, we had a few birds that were workable.......and these guys just kept shooting at anything that flew over......including a dove. Dove season doesn't start back up 'til Dec 22nd. Meanwhile, I'm hoping to work a duck or two and get'em to stick there feet out before I pull the trigger. 'Not many folks these days, that'll be patient enough to work a duck until it pulls the rip-cord. Most folks are content to shoot'em on the 'dip', or lob some 3-1/2" 'black bull$#!+' skyward in hopes that one pellet will make it's mark.

I finally got the opportunity to work a duck without any distractions. It was a hen gadwall that I worked for a good 5-6 minutes. That'll really try your patience, 'cause gadwalls are so unpredictable - you never know if they came-in because of what you did, or in spite of what you didn't do.

Nevermind - I'm not wasting anymore time on this. I think you and I are on the same page........you just misinterpreted what I meant, perhaps because I didn't do a very good job of saying what I intended, the first time. But I still say.....some folks just aren't going to 'get-it'........(i.e. understand my consideration for local hunters on public ground). I guess I'm foolish to think other folks might feel the same way when they hunt on the same public land where I hunt. ....and I guess that's my point. Not, "Here, lemme show you how it's done, buddy." Hell, I don't give a crap how it's done.

Happy Hunting!

[MSDawg870]

or lob some 3-1/2" 'black bull$#!+' skyward in hopes that one pellet will make it's mark.

[Anatidae]

Yeah........'Federal' makes it......

[Locked&loaded]

I live way north of the Delta, I'm a Damn OOS'er. Although the best food, hunting & the prettiest women Ive ever seen are in the Delta (Greenwood). I started lurking here a few years ago & I really enjoy it. Because where I live it aint no fun to be a duck hunter. Big whitetails & tons of turkeys, but if we get any ducks they just plain lost.

[Hammer]

I was born in Coahoma County Hospital in 1961...Father from Clarksdale, mother from Greenville....8 generations of Delta DNA in my bones including Grandfather's grandfather James Lusk Alcorn, Mississippi governor and US Senator and Alfred Jones Mitchell, Mississippi State Representative and Delta businessman who drowned in MS River while hunting ducks in 1946...I have hunted the MS Delta from one end to the other starting n the South Delta with my grandmothers first cousin near Holly Bluff (where my grandmother was born and raised) in 1971...I have owned land in the Delta but just sold my most recent piece and looking again...PM me if you have or know of farm/timber/WRP land at a fair price in the South Delta.

HAMMER

[HOOD]

i tried to live there once with a very brief delta state stay....man deer and beer was fun ...all in all I am just a wanna be deltonian wonder what could have been had i stayed in cleveland

[lowbar]

i tried to live there once with a very brief delta state stay....man deer and beer was fun ...all in all I am just a wanna be deltonian wonder what could have been had i stayed in cleveland

Hanging with the Pikes I see I grew up in Delta City until we moved to the big city of Anguilla when I was in high school. Then moved on up to Cleveland for college. Moved to Rankin county after that but still don't feel at home until I go down that last hill at Satartia or Yazoo City.

[Bluesky]

I wouldn't want to live in the delta year round.