Playing Hard to Get — Head to Old River WMA for great deer hunting

Old River WMA straddles the Louisiana border, and shares big bucks from the famed Bogue Chitto NWR. Here’s how to put a tag on one of those trophies.

Inaccessible river bottomland attracts more deer than it does deer hunters.

And it’s really no wonder because the very thing that keeps the hunters away — flood-prone hardwoods and cypress swamps full of foreboding thickets — is the same thing that congregates deer as they look for places to escape any chance of human interaction.

Old River Wildlife Management Area in Pearl River County just west of Poplarville and northwest of Picayune is actually closer to Bogalusa, La., than to either of these Mississippi towns.

In fact, it’s directly across the Pearl River from the much more famous Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge on the Louisiana side.Click here to read more on Playing Hard to Get — Head to Old River WMA for great deer hunting