This place is less than a mile from downtown Florence Al. It is 7 Mile Island Mgt Area and only open for bow hunting deer from Dec 26-Jan 31. Have been doing a bunch of scouting this week and found some great hunting places.
There are 4600 acres on the area with about 500 acres of crop land down the middle. This year it was planted in corn. Looks like they pick 10 rows and leave 4.the ground is littered with ears of corn, thousands of bushels.
A tornado went through my favorite part about 4 years ago. This let sunlight in and the privet went wild. Some of the area is very hard to get around in.
Before the tornado the banks of the sloughs were lined with giant oaks like this one the tornado missed.
There is still plenty of undamaged woods but one has to cut through the privet to get anywhere. I was following a nice trail along the banks of the Tennessee river.
I ran into another common obstacle, a cane thicket.