I bet the school looks just like the bus.

I probably would try and let it go, or report it anonomously so that maybe it gets stopped without a big investigation/prosecution...

I was undecided on the deal until I heard the details... I mean, if someone was speeding, I can ignore that, or something similar, but not like hunting out of season, smoking dope, etc. I was invited to a camp years ago as a guest... guy that was the lead guy in the group is smoking a doobie... I quietly packed and left. Didn't call the cops or anything, just left. My buddy said I should have seen the looks on their faces the next morning when they asked where I was..., he told them I was gone, and then told them I was a cop (at that time)... somethings you just can't let go on...

I turned in a guy that intentionally shot across a fence knowing it was a boundary and he waited till dark to go retrieve the deer.... game warden had come out, marked the deer, then sat back and waited for them to retrieve it, then came to their camp to get it, and them, and some guns and stuff...

I'm not sure how I'd handle the drug use thing... I know I'd have issue if they were doping and hunting @ the same time though...

My issue is that had they been hunting by the book, we all could have left with a deer (the place is LOADED with deer).

Instead I see a guy go by on his 4 wheeler with a buck and a doe, and the guy (me) following the rules gets to drive 7 hours home empty handed.

And thinking about it more, consider what this abuse does to the population...

TxP

Sorry to hear about your trip being messed up like that.

With the details I vote yes, turn their butts in.

One thing you need to think about however, is that this ain't them old boys first rodeo.

They have been doing this for a long time, probably for generations.

Evidently if there are that many deer, they are not hurting the population to make them stop doing it or make the Mississippi Game dept. crack down on these folks.

Think of it as a learning experience.

Thanks for the opinions...

on another note, you guys remember the movie My Cousin Vinnie, where he got to go deer hunting in Mississippi and he kept slippin n sliding in the mud?

I didn't fall in it, but came close more than a few times... I can honestly say it's slicker than dog snot!

Now I have to get all that orange crap off my boots n clothes...

TxP

To each there own. Me personally as a guest, I would of just said thanks for the invite something came up at home and I going to half to cut my trip short and high tailed it out of there. If I had paid money for the lease. The owner and i would of had a talk and he would of probated my lease fee.

Back when Oklahoma was pretty out law. People poached like no other. Tresspass was very common, so I stopped hunting up there.. Finally they changed the law and the Rangers understand that enforcing them is very benefitcal for long term... don't get me wrong there are few area of oklahoma that are still pretty outlaw.

Biggest problem is if those guys are pretty outlaw and have no regard for the regs then thats probley becuase GW is not enforcing them.... so contacting the GW might no help anything.

So 60% of people on this forum would turn someone in that had offered them a free hunt out of the goodness of their heart. Thats pretty sad, Squirrel hunter aren't you the one always bitchin about how much hunting costs and then when you get invited for a free hunt your thinking about turning these generous folks in to the LEO's. You know there may be another reason other than MONEY some of you folks don't have a place to hunt!!!!!

That doesn't surprize me at all. I've been to Mississippi 2 times and I wasn't hunting. I had to go pick up a big valve that could be operated by remote control. Some welders had dismantled a gas plant in Aberdeen Ms and had it shipped to Pettus Tx., to be reassembled. I was working on this job and they sent me to get the valve.

This welding shop wasn't real happy to have to give up this valve. I think it was left off the shipment on purpose, if you know what I mean.

When I got there at daylight, I called them and they met me. When they opened up this welding shop I saw 5 huge crosses that were made out of 8" x 8" oak timbers, that were coped together perfectly and bolted with stainless bolts. They told me that it was for a KKK meeting they were going to have. So I didnt ask any more questions.

This valve was was extremely heavy. I asked them to load it with their forklift and they refused. They said, you want it so damn bad, you can load it yourself, and continued work on another cross. I called the company that was reassembling the gas plant in Pettus and told them the bind I was in. They called this welding shop and talked to the people and they finally decided to load it for me. They told me go back to Texas and to never come back.

Believe it or not, there are still some people farming with pointed sticks over there in the rural areas.

Moderno, totally believe that too.. In rural Mississippi and parts of rural Georgia i have been to, they fly the rebel flag for a reason that isn't about southern pride...

LOL

TxP

First off, why hunt deer with dogs? Might as well get in a helicopter and shoot, lol, thinking of that, I envisioned the guy on the little helicopter on the movie Road Warrior!, lol. Did any of the guys look like him?
Anyway, I have nothing against dogs, but prefer to hunt with out them, even when hunting quail. Maybe because I am usualy deer hunting then too and don't want any in the area. You get out of Texas, and things get a little different. I hunted on some property we have in upstate New York about 5 years ago opening day deer season.... It sounded like openging day dove season, never hunted since. Now I know why you have to have orange on over there.
As for reporting the illegal activity, I would leave it up to your friend or report it when you are gone. You never know, just make sure your arse is out of the area!

I would have been absolutely PISSED that someone who called themselves my friend would invite me to go hunting when he knew it was going to be some whacked out poach-fest.

I would have asked him to reimburse me for my gas getting out there then, whether he paid up or not, left the place immediately and called the GW.

That guy would not have been a friend to me anymore so I wouldnt care if he caught sh!t from his other dirtbag friends. But that's just me.

Were they hunting deer with beagles?

Your first post has me a little confused, were all of you hunting the same parcel of land? You talk about diffrent groups, but I was wondering if they were hunting bordering land to yours?

I see you list your location as: Winchester, VA

In 2000, I spent a few days in a hunting camp above the Arctic Circle, and two of the guys in that camp thought that hunting deer with dogs, standing on a road in the swamps with a shotgun and wing shooting white tails as they went past was the ultimate in sport, and that hunting deer from a box blind overlooking a feeder was just shooting and not hunting.

One of the guys was from Virginia and the other from North Carolina.

I believe they were taliking about hunting that way in North Carolina, but it may have been in Virginia, I do not know anything about the hunting laws up there.

Harsh opinion here, but if you know they were breaking the law and didn't either talk to them about it or report it, then you are condoning it and it won't stop. That makes you part of the problem and not part of the solution.

Granted tough circumstances, but tough or not doing the right thing doesn't change. No offense met, jmo.

Hwy man - yes - with beagles...

Spanky, yes, everyone was on the same lease - it was a hunting club...

TxP

Update...

I looked at the MS parks and wildlife site and their reporting link is broken (go figure)... I sent them a question about maintaining my anonomity, we'll see what I get back.

TxP

Just me but if I did not like it I would just leave and be done with it. But knowing me I would have probably met some new friends and had the time of a lifetime and left with some of those deer. Might would have bought me a new dog to LOL

Shoulda just popped out about half your teeth, picked up a banjo, thrown away your shoes, sipped on some good ole shine and enjoyed the weekend.

I'd probably woulda reported'em or at least said something to them. Also I'd love to see the interior of that bus/camper. By the looks of things they may all die from carbon monoxide poisoning anyway.