Years ago I met a lady land-owner, who gave me permission to deer hunt. She encouraged me to come and kill deer at night, because they were in her garden. She DID NOT have any kind of legal status to allow this, but she really tried to talk me into night shooting. Later, I asked about shooting some doves on her place, and she got all excited, and said “No, I don’t allow any dove shooting. Doves are mentioned in the Bible!” This was (is) fairly common across much of the South.
On opening day of deer season, it became apparent that she stopped people on the road to give them hunting permission.Her yard looked like a parking lot. We stayed til daylight, ducking centerfire rifle shots that folks were throwing at flying duck, then low crawled to the vehicle and got out of there. Going down the road, one of our crew remembered a friend who had property, so we stopped by, got permission, and have been hunting there since 1972. We’ve become great friends with the family.
