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http://www.LouisianaSportsman.com April 2015 | Louisiana Sportsman 147

One of the problems with turkey hunting on private land is that

landowners and/or hunters on adjacent lands will often set up a

site to feed turkeys year round to keep turkeys hanging around.

Feeding turkeys is permitted, but a hunter cannot hunt within

200 yards of the feed.

Doing good habitat work on your land to attract turkeys can

offset the problem of corn to some degree. Maintaining spring,

summer and winter feeding strips of various seed plants, and

planting mast- and fruit-producing trees should enhance your

wild turkey habitat.

Last year on

both of the

small tracts I

hunt, adjacent

hunters were

feeding the

turkeys, and

the birds were

going to those

sites after day-

light. All the call-

ing in the world

could not lure

them away from

their morning breakfast of the yellow gold.

However, I observed that eventually the hens would make their

way to our food plots to eat clover — and the toms would follow.

One particular gobbler would follow a few hens in circular

route, visiting several plots and would wind up before roosting

time at a plot on a hill and crossing back over to the neighbors

property, roosting in some pines a few hundred yards away.

My friend Ken from Benton came down, and we made a morn-

ing effort to no avail. We hung around on the property until

around 11 a.m. But before leaving, we set up his ground blind

near the hill patch.

When we came back, I put a hen decoy in the patch and told

Ken I thought the tom would leave the patch to the west and

come up the woods trail to this patch, see the decoy and give

him a shot at some point before it crossed over to go to roost.

Sure enough, the tom did exactly what I thought it would do —

it came up the trail to the hill patch, stopped and gobbled at the

decoy before Ken dropped it in its tracks.

It was Ken’s first gobbler, a fine East Feliciana Parish adult tom

that had a craw full of corn.

I often use trail cameras to monitor the movement of the tur-

keys and the time when they visit the property. It is then a matter

of being there when they are, which can be a problem.

Needless to say, I am not a fan of the feeding/baiting regulation.

Feeding can be a contest between landowners in an effort to

keep the birds on their properties.

In this situation, the old feral hog can be a friend, particular if he

can find the corn piles and cleans them up.

— David Moreland

Corned-Up

turkeys

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18 ac. West Carroll Par.

Nice private hunting spot w/ 2 ac. open, 3 ac.

cypress brake & balance in nice timber.

$54,000. Call Bill.

166.5 acres West Carroll Parish

Bow paradise. Mature timber & 40 ac. of

water for ducks. $1,800/acre. Call Bill.

70 ac. Tensas Par.

Great deer hunting with exc. income.

Young CRP provides exc. cover.

$195,000. Call Bill.

1600 ac. Tensas Par.

Great bottomland hardwoods for deer

w/impressive water impoundments full of

ducks & trophy bass fishing. $3,800,000.

Call Bill.

128 Ac. Catahoula Par.

Prime farm land w/2 miles frontage

on Lake Louis. $575,000. Call Bill.

Lakefront

Lake Bruin w/camp - $115,000. Call Bill.

112 Acres Tensas Par.

69 ac. CRP, 33 ac. pasture, farmland and 3000

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1100 ac. Concordia Par.

1060 ac. under high fence, 3000 sq. ft. lodge

and bunk house overlooking 6 ac. cypress

lake; 170” deer common. $4,750,000.

Call Bill.

160 ac. Tensas Par.

Outstanding older WRP, giant duck pond,

great surroundings w/easy access.

$512,000. Call Bill.

36.7 ac. Tensas Par.

Farmland surrounded on three sides by Big

Lake WMA,excellent hunting & great

campground potential. $250,000. Call Bill.

120 Acres West Carroll Par.

This recreational tract has frontage on Hwy

587 & Barton Rd. Property consists of an

estimated $100,000 of hardwood timber

offering exc. deer/duck/small game.

$288,000. Call Bill.

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Claiborne Co. - 70 ac. – Secluded turn-key deer camp w/food plots, 5 shooting

houses, nice camper, metal shop & mixed timber. $220,000. Call Ken.

Copiah Co. - 29 ac. - Hunting tract located south of Georgetown on Hwy 27 with live

creek and nice mixed timber. $72,500. Call Ken.

Hinds Co. - 86 ac. - Exc. hunting w/nice mixed timber between Edwards/Utica near

Natchez Trace. $2,750/acre. REDUCED. Call Ken.

Jeff erson Co. - 28 ac. – Timberland near Fayette. Deer/turkey/small game. $65,320.

Call Tom.

Leake Co. -12 ac. - 3BR/2BA home sits on rolling timberland with several small pastures in a good

hunting area. $110,000. Call Don Schmidt.

Leake Co. - 16 ac.- Antebellum styled home. Great deer/turkey/small game area.

$225,000. Call Dale.

Leflore Co. - 343 ac. - 256 ac. in WRP, 43 ac. in CRP. Exc. deer, food plots w/stands &

duck holes. $651,500. Call Charlie.

Pearl River Co.- 30-50-75-100-2900 ac. - Cybur Farms located on Hwy. 43N just

outside of Picayune, MS adjoining Bogue Chitto NWR & Old River WMA. Mixed ages

of hrdwd/ pine timber offering deer/turkey hunting. $3,150/ac. Call Ken.

Rankin Co. - 10-50-100-950 ac. - Located in Johns Community, beautiful wooded

homesites w/light restrictions & exc. deer/turkey. $3,000 - $4,500/ac. Owner/agent.

Call Ken.

Simpson Co. - 113 ac. - Great hunting w/nice mixed timber, cabin & live creek

located east of Georgetown off Hwy. 28 & Hwy. 469. $2200/acre. Call Ken.

War ren Co. - 13.2 ac. - Nice hunting tract located on Possum Hollow Rd. in Vicksburg w/all

utilities and outbuilding. $3500/acre. $46,200. Call Charlie.

War ren Co. - - 17.93 ac. - This timberland property w/frontage is located on Burnhouse Rd. in

Vicksburg, MS. Exc. hunting w/development potential. $47,500. Call Charlie.

War ren Co. - 40-35 ac. - Located north of Redwood on Yazoo River levee. 40 ac

& 35 ac. wooded honey-holes on west side of levee adjoining WRP. $5,000/ac.

Call Charlie.

Washington Co. - 15-20-40 acs. - Duck holes south of Greenville in 3 tracts. $2500/

acre. Call Ken, owner/agent.

Wilkinson Co. - 135 ac. - Property at Lake Mary on Jackson Point Rd. $175,000.

Call Tom.

Wilkinson Co. - Waterfront lot on Lake Mary w/ exc. fishing/watersports. $20,000.

Call Bill.

Yazoo Co. - 202 ac. - 2-story lodge located in Benton w/100 ac. cropland, 50 ac. CRP,

and 50 ac. hardwood timber. This tract has exc. deer/turkey hunting w/6 shooting

houses & blacktop county road frontage. $950,000. Call Don Schmidt.

Yazoo Co. - 68 ac. - 3500 sf home w/pool overlooking 7 ac. lake w/mature timber/

horse barn/3 stocked ponds. $590,000. REDUCED. Call Ken.

Ken Hall, Broker - 601-942-9513

Bill Crigler - 318-201-0744

Dale Edgar - 601-540-7795

Don Pickens - 601-594-3767

Don Schmidt - 601-416-5878

Tom Middleton - 601-597-5727

Charles Feltus - 601-431-8285

Barry Maxwell - 318-719-0318

Noah Reeves - 318-282-6703

Charlie Spears - 601-953-1424

BELOW: A turkey craw full

of corn is evidence of that

someone is feeding birds.