Coonass Conversations...

[sunnylab]

I have recently moved to lafayette, la from jackson, ms. After one week here, i now know why there are NO deer in south LA. Every stereotype you have ever heard about coonasses and their hunting strategies/ethics is true. The following are just a few conversations that i have been involved in, or overheard, or just been subject to...and not responded with anything. here goes....

coonass #1: hey brah, come see. I got a new rifle set up. its a 22 rifle wit a night scope. I can see up to bout 75 yards with it. i can kill a deer and don't even have to use my headlights. (this guy was dead serious....)

coonass #2: we had a good wknd at deer camp. we killed 5 does, 2 four points, and 3 (tree) spikes. (i can't make this up)

coonass #3: (in academy sports) i got a dumb friend of mine dat joined a new camp...he is dumb b/c the camp rules limit them to only 4 bucks a year...the state law is 5. You gotta be one dumb person to pay to kill less deer than is allowed by the state. (once again, i told him i don't hunt much and didn't really know anything about LA or deer hunting) (this is really how these people think)

coonass #4: i went to my camp to check my trail cams and put out another 80lbs of corn. I got a new spike on da trail cam..i never seen him before...gonna try to get him dis wknd. I don't have any racks on trail cam yet...they must not be moving yet. (i'm thinking to myself, maybe he killed all the racks or potential racks last year.)

Had one of these 3 strike up a conversation with me...as we were talking i told him i killed a big 8pt over the wknd... was scrolling through my phone to show him a pic when i asked him where he hunted..his response "i hunt wherever i want to hunt" ...then this is where he told me about the 5does, 2 four points, and 3 spikes they killed at thier camp....i slowly just closed my phone..put it back in my pocket and told him i really didn't know much about hunting, but i think its cool.. you know, sometimes its just not worth engaging conversation with someone so ignorant about a topic. ..plus he would have prob had a heart attack when i showed him the 137" 8pt i killed. This guy has never laid eyes on a 4.5 year old deer or older.

So any of you MS guys that have heard stories of these people...it is all TRUE.

I have yet to find a person that knows anything about deer management or following state game laws. Of course, i'm not trying to bash the residents of south LA, but when somebody says something like...oh gosh here come dem cajuns..they kill everything they see... dont be mad b/c the shoe fits.

also i thought this appropriate b/c this is a MS hunting site.

[quack fiend]

I understand where you're coming from, but there's plenty o' rednecks just like that, too. And to play devil's advocate, not everyone is interested in quality deer management, including myself. I'm just as happy shooting a couple of does with my bow, and antlers mean nothing to me. These woods goats are just a brief diversion before duck season.

[ntzhunter]

I moved to Baton Rouge about 3 yrs ago but work out of Lafayette! I travel the coastline from Venice to Cameron weekly! Let me tell ya brother, we stick out like sore thumbs! I have always said thats why they dont have the deer populations like we have in Mississippi! They love to KILL! I know there are a bunch of Ms rednecks that like to do the same thing, but the coonsasses beat em! Now before I get comments, its not all of them. I have made lifetime friendships with 100% tried-and-true raised on the bayou coonasses! But everything you posted, I have heard in one way or another!

[ntzhunter]

and let me tell ya.....deer hunting in "Mississippi" is the "glory-land"! Let em find out you have good hunting land in "Mississippi", and you will have plenty o new friends!

[sunnylab]

haha!!! yea..definitely all good people. just not gonna make any new hunting buddies.

nothing wrong with loving to KILL but some of these guys take it to the EXTREME. i mean...they shoot deer at night...tresspass on whoevers property they feel like, etc. etc. its a madhouse down here.
the funny thing is they talk about it openly like there is nothing wrong with it. I like to hear the stories...keeps getting more interesting every time.

[r.c.a.1971]

Gotta luv dem cajuns........!! My background doesnt fit most of what you mentioned, but I am a "Registered Coon Ass" !!

BTW.......Im just down da road from you (New Iberia)......holla at a cajun sumtime!!

[dukluk]

I got several coonie friends down there....some don't have that kill-anything-that-moves mentality, but some definitely do....not too long ago, I mistakenly did not check out this group, and leased a piece of hunting land to four coonies for two years....at the end of the second year, the only living thing that was left on that tract was a couple of armadillos, skunks, and muskrats....I'm sure they woulda eaten those, too, if they had been able to kill 'em.

[munyoz70]

Man its pretty regional too, just like in Ms, your marsh coonasses murder more critters than your swamp coonasses, not saying there arnt outlaws in the swamp area, but the concentration isnt as dense and alot of the state has alot of outlaws period. Hell the word cajun comes from arcadia canada which is where the coonasses got kicked out of for being outlaws and rejects and they fled/migrated to LA.

But I know several coonasses from pointe couppe parish and the tri parish area that steadily practice qdma... Hell they killed a 196 drop tine buck on hwy 190 in Irwinville last year right across the street from Raxx's.

Its all regional, and marsh/ south of I-10 dont really have a fighting chance and that region doesnt grow tremendous deer in the first place.

[Jeff]

I completely agree with you just like I still believe to this day that men in Mississippi still loose their virginity to their sisters, and EVERYONE from MS lives in a mobil home.


While Louisiana does have a lot of people that like to hunt and like to kill stuff, and our culture in the past certainly has been to outlaw sterotypes are killers. However believe what you want too, If you belive MS is that much better and the people are too (there are great people in MS), please stay there, don't come back for our duck hunting, or fishing just stay in MS.

[LODI QUACKER]

I knew it wouldn't take long before this thread got under somebody's skin.

But Jeff, sorry man but its the truth! Plain and simple. Now, You do realize this is a MS board right?

Should not be an insulting, what's true is true. Not necessarily a bad thing. Most just don't care about anything but the meat. I have seen it first hand in several clubs myself.

[MudHog]

So 5 people is speaking for the entire state of LA.


It's not that I'm offended by the post, I'm more upset that this whole thing is based off of 5 people. I'm more than certain that there were more than 5 people in the entire store of academy as I've been to the store on different days and it's packed just about every time. So that leads me to think he was simply listening to the stories he wanted to listen to.


As the saying goes, people always remember the bad and never remember the good.




If you ever want to have a real conversation, shoot me a PM and we'll meet up for lunch. I'm in Broussard, but can go anywhere. What's the reason you moved down?

[stang67]

What's the reason you moved down?

If he's like most of us MS transplants, he's here because they need some smart folks to run all these plants down here.

Many of the people I know down here hunt in the Felicianas, and they are very selective.

[landscaper]

If you're from Mississippi and those conversations surprised you then you've been under a rock! Or, (if I may be permitted to make assumptions about you much as you did about people from southern LA) you have never had to hunt anywhere other than a high dollar hunting club where the members had plenty of time, money, and resources to put into deer management. Don't get me wrong, I wish I were that privileged, and I'm all for conservation and deer management, but the fact is that that isn't a concern or possibility for the majority of hunters. Some people hunt to eat, man, not just to put horns on the wall. As for respecting game laws I'll agree that that should be priority one for any hunter, and respecting the game and other people's property should be priority one for any sportsman.
All in all, though, I think that was a pretty broad and judgmental brush you used to paint a lot of people with.

[camlock]

after working in a hunting outfitter store in Baton Rouge, that drew in people from a large surrounding area, for two years...I could tell you some stories...I can also say I have met some good people...but the head-scratchers FAR outweigh the good guys (hunting ethic wise, not good people or bad people)

My dad made a simple comment that really explained it all to me once, he didn't mean to be so enlightening but he was...he compared a grown cajun man that he deer hunted with to my (at that time he was 12) 12 year old nephew. The comparison was based on how they acted/though regarding the harvest of deer. How excitable and blood thirsty they were and etc. As innocent as a young boy on a mission to kill a deer (ANY DEER and as often as possible) they just never grow out of that... Thinking in depth about it, he was in my opinion, spot on...

[munyoz70]

that sums it up, I know a MAN who shot such a little deer he cooked it whole in a pot on his stove and brags about it. But I bet it did taste good!