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John's
Journal... Entry 20- Day 1 DEER HUNTING AT BENT CREEK LODGE EDITOR'S NOTE: John Lanier of Jachin, Alabama, lives close to I-59/I-20 as it runs down the Mississippi border in west/central Alabama and owns nationally-known Bent Creek Lodge with his partner Leo Allen. With more than 30,000 acres making up the lodge's lands, Bent Creek Lodge offers the hunter a wide variety of hunting opportunities. QUESTION: In the fall, you have deer hunting at Bent Creek Lodge. How big are some of the better deer hunters that have taken there? ANSWER: Usually our hunters at the lodge kill two or three bucks in the 150-point class on the Boone and Crockett scale each year. And, of course, the lower the class of buck, the more of them we kill. QUESTION: In a three-day hunt, generally what will a hunter see at Bent Creek Lodge? ANSWER: What a hunter sees depends on the weather. On a cold, clear day, he'll see numbers of deer. QUESTION: What can a hunter take here? ANSWER: At Bent Creek, a hunter can bag one buck per day and one doe per trip. QUESTION: How many greenfields do you have on your lodge lands? ANSWER: Bent Creek probably has a couple of hundred, 2- to 6-acre each greenfields on our property. QUESTION: What do you plant in the fields for the deer? ANSWER: We plant wheat, rye grass and clover. For more information, contact John Lanier at Bent Creek Lodge, P.O. Box 4267, Jachin, AL 36910, (205) 459-3065 or his partner, Leo Allen, at (205) 398-3437 or email Lanier at bclodge@pinebelt.net. TOMORROW: HOG HUNTING AT BENT CREEK LODGE |
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