Anybody ever hunted in forest Mississippi and what could I expect good hunting or not

Public? good private can be found in that area!

Private

Yes north of forest has some really good deer!

Always wanted to turkey hunt miss - one of few states i investigated that i could not find an outfitter worth a crap online

Yes sir my father lives right across the interstate south of Morton. Go to the garden patch in Forest for lunch. Deer are plentiful, but definitely smaller than the delta. A mature buck will weigh in the 175 range. PM me if you’d like.

In most cases you have to follow the good dirt to find trophy deer like in along the Mississippi River and a small area along the Tombigbee River around Columbus MS. While there are always exceptions, most of deer hunters in Mississippi hunt "deer" and the bucks simply do not live long enough (> 3.5 years old) to produce a quality rack. Mississippi has lots of deer and a very long season. Baiting is legal in MS so if all you are after is some venison - make sure you have some corn.

The rut is very crazy in Mississippi as some places it hits late November and other places it does not start till late January or early February. South MS has a late rut, so the season is open till mid February. Read the hunting regs closely!!!

The primitive weapon season is also different. They have a statewide prim weapon season in early to mid December (13 days) and another that starts mid January to the end of Jan. On public land you can use archery, black powder and straight walled guns (444, 45-70, 350 Legend etc.) but on private land you can use weapon of choice (30-06, 270, 7 Mag, shotgun and etc)

Good luck.

Primitive weapons are not straight walled cartridge guns in Ms. The reg says single shot 35 caliber or larger with exposed hammer (35 Whelen is legal)

10 miles north of Forest!

close to same area!

On my land about 15 miles north! this was bout 8 years ago and on the last day of our season and the only pic I ever had of him!

One more from my place, had pics of him for 3 years and no one ever claim they got him, good genes in the area! hunt it if you get the chance!

3 they long arming them deer and all of em needed another year! 😂 jk jk shoot man those are all some serious studs!

Awesome deer

Bigger than anything i grow

Good area. The rut is around Christmas.

The Pearl River runs from Winston County(Louisville) to the gulf. From the Pearl to the Mississippi the hunting gets better and better..the more south east you get from the Pearl the hunting gets worse. Scott County(Forest) has some areas north of i20 that are in that Pearl region. I live 30 mins north east from Forest and the hunting is terrible. You can go 20 miles west of me (Leake) it’s tremendously better.