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Homochitto National Forest

Started by Xtrema30, February 24, 2015, 03:57:07 PM

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Xtrema30

Any information on this place would be helpful. Not looking for your secret spot. Its just homochitto is 2.5 hrs from the house and I was hoping to possibly make two weekend hunts before the season opens up here in LA.
Thanks

FullChoke

Check on Craigslist for the schedule of the daily shuttles that run from Louisiana out to the Homochitto NF.

All kidding aside, that place is jack hammered by OOSers worse than anywhere else in this state. Google scouting works occasionally.

Cheers

FC


Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Blong

Arkansas and La hunters swarm the place for the first 3 weeks! Campers at every camp sight.

catdaddy

Quote from: FullChoke on February 24, 2015, 04:37:06 PM
Check on Craigslist for the schedule of the daily shuttles that run from Louisiana out to the Homochitto NF.

All kidding aside, that place is jack hammered by OOSers worse than anywhere else in this state. Google scouting works occasionally.

Cheers

FC

Dead on the money here. I hunted the HNF in the late 70's and early 80's and at that time, the pressure was very light. Now, its crazy. 

TheSportsman

Hunting pressure is unreal. I've got friends that used to go and these guys are killers. They still killed birds but quit doing bc off too many oosers and too many rude folks

silvestris

My license from last year covers me for the first five days this year.  What I hear those five days will be the deciding factor on whether I pony up for the rest of the season.

Last year HNF was atrocious.  I heard four turkeys gobble for a total of five gobbles.  It was April 19 before I connected.  I saw 7-8 hens beside the road in the afternoon about 2pm with no gobbler in sight.  I figured there had to be one close with that many hens. 

Two days later after studying the Topo, I went to where I thought my call might reach his ears.  The woods were burned clean as a whistle and I had to enter through a hollow to keep from being seen.  Found a "decent" tree and put up the stakeout.  Clucked twice in rapid succession falling off into four soft yelps with a slate-type caller and he clucked right back.  Waited two minutes and softly yelped five or six times on a trumpet and he hammered me about thirty yards over the ridge.  This allowed me to turn and raise my gun.  In less than a minute he walked under the gun at twenty steps.  I kinda felt cheated.

That sums up my season in the HNF.  If the first five days of the season are like last year, I will hunt in Louisiana until the season closes and then pick up the camera if I need a turkey fix.

You really have to work for them in the HNF these days.
"[T]he changing environment will someday be totally and irrevocably unsuitable for the wild turkey.  Unless mankind precedes the birds in extinction, we probably will not be hunting turkeys for too much longer."  Ken Morgan, "Turkey Hunting, A One Man Game