When I was a teen, (SE Texas, mid 60's) a local "big name Rice farmer's son", leased/planted soybeans where none had ever, never before, been grown. The deer went crazy for them ( like catnip) so he bought 5 new Browning BAR 30-06s, (he used only illegals for help) and they started whacking/stacking/burning them. No state permits, no quota, just the "good ol boy network" looking the other way. Well, all the deer leases within 10 miles that fall were affected, no deer to speak of. This made the deer hunters mad, who contacted/threatened to stop leasing the Paper Company land ( which messed with "their money" ) and the next year...no soybeans were planted in that tract of land. That farmer went back to Rice (his family had a gazillion acres further south)It was a mess.
