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Ive been as a guest on Reelfoot in private blinds by a college classmate. The stories he told me about not screwing around with another group's blind were memorable but not surprising. You just do not screw around with another man's blind on Reelfoot. Period
They would probably rather you took their wife for a night .

I think it was on some duck forums I read that there had been altercations between these two and the old guys grandkids previously

I've hunted Reelfoot a couple of times, they have a bunch of different rules with blinds. They set up a system where private previously known blinds were registered to one owner, when they die, that blind goes into the yearly state draw. I heard grandparents were registering blinds in their grandchildren's name to keep it in the family as long as they could. The State owned blinds go into a lottery every year. The rule is, you have the right to your private or state draw everyday of the season, if the blind is unoccupied at sun up, it's an open blind for that day, this is what might have happened. No one in blind at sun up, three guys get in it, old owner comes by to go hunting but is late, tells the three guys to get out, they don't and the shooting starts.

Blinds are at least a 1/4 mile away from each other, hard to say if ducks were going to one blind or the other. One time, we must of had 10 or 12 flocks of mallards circle out blind, not like the set up or the guides calling and go due west to the next blind and come in. That blind had 7 guys limit by 11:30AM and leave, just the way it goes. Once we were at the launch and a local couldn't get his 4-stroke started and the line started backing up, my buddy from New Jersey jumped in the boat and got it started, we saw those hunters at the restaurant that night and they tried to buy us diner, we already paid for it. I heard there were fist fights over blinds, it's sad that two young men had to lose their lives over a blind.

For what it's worth, some of these blinds are pretty elaborate, electrical hook ups for motion decoys, pretty nice stoves, If I put they much time and money in a blind, I would be hunting it or have good friends out there hunting it.

From the info on the Refuge Forums, it was a public draw blind that used to be private.

Got to give the old man credit. He backed up his words.

i have a 24 foot diver boat. i run a big diver spread when the conditions are right. I even have a layout boat. i get its public water but have some morlas and ethics, i completely get the guy being mad about guys wearing ducks out every day of the season. but aint much you can do about it. what relly pisses me off is when guys set their spread 100 ayrds from me, or better yet are the damned fishermen.

hell 2 years ago we set up off of a point. about an hour after daylight here comes this kid in a 12 foot car topper and an outboard, no heavy coat or life jacket on. its january and 3 degrees out. scumbag drives right through my Bluebil long Lines.

Meh, most times merely a sentiment.

I remember first time I watched someone fishing in our spread...they guy I was with was used to it, when big tournament money is on the line, a decoy or duck hunter isn't gonna stop them.

Yep, that certainly turned out to worth it.

It helps if you know just how much lead to put on a spinner bait

Public private whatever

Duck hunting is bigger than religion at Reelfoot

All this drama, ruined lives, just for some ducks

Ducks that usually get tossed out at stop signs or pitched in the weeds at the boat ramp.

Personally I never could eat duck, nasty mfers.


Old man probably never killed a banded duck, the ultimate quest in life. SMH

Guess it's a good thing the old codger didn't put up a ladder on your on your prop line!

So here is a little update..not much..


OBION COUNTY, TN — The Obion and Weakley County District Attorney Tommy Thomas tells Local 6 the boat of David Vowell was found by investigators Tuesday.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says they are still looking for 70 year old Vowell, of Martin, Tenn., — who is considered armed and dangerous.

Law enforcement has blocked off the road which leads to where the two bodies were found. The TBI says they're not releasing any new information on the two victims or the suspect.

https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/inv...28407b4-5ffe-11eb-b013-f32b5a6a7a4f.html

Oh, the humanity!

A dumb one.

Two dead and only one alive to tell the story. A 70 year old comes up to 2 armed and trespassing men and it goes south. I strongly doubt it was premediated and suspect emotions were high and someone went for a weapon when they shouldn't have.

You’ve never had VarmintDuck obviously

I bet the background story is a lot more complicated than it sounds. When things like this occur, something has usually been festering for quite a while.

Where do you get tresspassing? I've read on here, on other forums, and news articles, and none of them say anything about the two victims were tresspassing.