For sure you might could be a real “gen-u-wine” Mississippi redneck if your name is Jim Bob Allgood and you are the owner/host of the popular Southern culture outdoor television series known as Redneck Adventures created and operated from Natchez. As Jim Bob describes his unique television vision, “Redneck Adventures is somewhere between the normal [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 26,2012
Tags: bill, federal government, fishing, fishing camps, flooding, floods, hunting, hunting camps, insurance, law, lawmakers, legislative, rain, severe weather, state government, Weather
JACKSON — The state Senate has given final legislative approval to a bill to allow local governments to enforce federal floodplains codes at hunting and fishing camps and remain in the National Flood Insurance Program. The bill now goes to the governor. Lawmakers tell the Mississippi Press they expect the governor to sign the bill [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 27,2012
Tags: bills, deer, deer breeding, disease, hunting, law, lawmakers, legislative branch, Legislature, outdoors, wildlife
JACKSON — Missouri is the 15th state with confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild cervid populations. Wildlife officials there say tests found two white-tailed bucks killed by deer hunters in Macon County, Mo., in November tested positive for the deadly disease. They were discovered by Missouri’s Department of Conservation after it began [...] [...]
WARREN COUNTY — A federal case nearly five years old involving two landowner groups and Warren County is continuing to plod along, a year after settlement talks morphed into more motions and claims. No hearing has taken place before U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III since September in the civil racketeering case brought against [...] [...]
FLORA — Primos Inc. and eTAGZ have reached a settlement in its patent infringement case, according to eTAGZ. Salt Lake City, Utah-based eTAGZ reports it sued sued Primos Inc., a company based in Flora that sells hunting-related products, for patent infringement in Jan. 2011. Primos denied the claims. In October 2011 eTAGZ “amicably resolved” its [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 7,2011
Tags: deer camps, disaster, disaster recovery, federal government, flood mitigation, flooding, floods, hunting, natural disaster, rain, severe weather, state government, Weather
MISSISSIPPI DELTA — The federal government has rejected a request for a waiver from a flood mitigation ordinance for hunting and fishing camps located in the Mississippi Delta. The Bolivar Commercial reports it had obtained a copy of a letter from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Attorney General Jim Hood in which FEMA rejected [...] [...]
OXFORD — Thirty-two bow hunters have signed up this year for the city of Oxford’s urban deer hunt program. The program began last year after years of complaints about deer-vehicle collisions and the animals wrecking gardens and landscaping. Jimmy Allgood, Oxford emergency management coordinator and the city’s designated “deer guy,” tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 27,2011
Tags: camping, consumer safety, hunting, off-road utility vehicles, outdoors, product recall, product safety, recall, transportation, vehicles
NATCHEZ — A recall has been issued for Bad Boy Buggies off-road utility vehicles manufactured by BB Buggies Inc., of Augusta, Ga., and Bad Boy Enterprises LLC of Natchez. The vehicles were sold at Bad Boy Buggy dealers nationwide from August 2009 through June 2011. This recall includes the Bad Boy LT, Classic, XT, XTO [...] [...]
I hate it when that happens. Deer camp partner calls last week to give me the bad news. During the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee apparently we had some pretty strong winds blow through Holmes County across our property. It blew the covers off some of our tripod stands and wrecked general havoc knocking down [...] [...]
Every year, hunters flock to the Delta to take advantage of some of the best public hunting land in the state offered by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks’ wildlife management areas (WMAs) and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex. This year, however, hunters are wondering if [...] [...]