Hunting in
the Delta!
By Brian McCombie
The “New” Hunting Camp: OWU Comes to the Mississippi Delta!
T
his past March, five members
of Outdoor Women Unlimited
(OWU) met near Yazoo City,
Mississippi, to spend some
quality time together, to
improve their outdoor skills, and, most
importantly, to hunt wild hogs. in the
process, OWU was helping to redefine the
Old Southern Hunting Camp, one hunt at
a time.
led by OWU founder and President
rebecca Wood, the group of hog hunters met up at a hunting lodge owned and
operated by tim Saxton, a part-owner in
the Simmons Farm raised Catfish compa-
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ny. assisted by local hunters Jay Coleman
and Mike Hurt, the OWU members first
made sure their rifles were sighted in.
Coleman and Hurt also presented information on how to hunt wild hogs (a first for
nearly all the OWU members on this hunt),
and then the OWU hunters headed out to
their respective hunting blinds and stands.
“Hog hunting has become an exciting
and popular hunt for our members,” says
Wood. “each lady had come to hunt and
harvest a hog, first and foremost. But there
was never a somber moment! We were
always up in the early morning and out
in the blinds, battling the various weather
conditions encountered. Back at camp, it
By the end of the hunt, only one hog was was all about the laughter, the excitement
taken, though OWU members had chanc- of the hunt, and the stories.”
es at two others. But the ladies from OWU
left the hunt with a new enthusiasm for Yazoo County, where the hog hunt was
hunting what has rather recently become held, represents the beginning of the
one of the country’s top game animals, the Mississippi Delta, the northwest section of
wild hog.
the Magnolia State that lies between the
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