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Marketing a Land Between the Lakes Deer Hunting Lodge: Public-Land Scale, Private-Lodge Comfort
Land Between the Lakes puts more than 170,000 acres of federal hardwood ground between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, and its 2026-27 quota deer hunts run from late October through November. The lodge on the boundary has two customers: the drawn hunter who needs a bed, a meal, and good local knowledge, and the hunter who did not draw and still wants a November hunt. Here is how to market to both without crossing the federal line.
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Sloughs WMA Duck Hunting Draw: Kentucky's Quota System, the Monday Standby Drawing, and the Private-Field Alternative
Sloughs WMA quota results land in mid-October, and most applicants learn they did not draw. Here is how Kentucky's Sauerheber, Jenny Hole, and walk-in system actually works for 2026-27, why the Sloughs standby line is a Monday night at the WMA office rather than a pre-dawn crowd, and how lodging, lease, and private-field operators in the Ohio River bottoms can serve the hunters left holding a plan without a place to hunt.
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Western Kentucky Coalfields and Mississippi River Bottoms Field Report: Flooded Bottomland Waterfowl and the Far-West Flyway Corridor
Far-west Kentucky is where the Ohio meets the Mississippi and the ducks come down the bottoms. This field report walks the Jackson Purchase WMAs, the managed water of Ballard and Boatwright, the reclaimed mine grasslands of Peabody, and the timing signals that shape the 2026-27 season from teal to the late-January push.
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