I'm going by memory, but I think the property was across the county! Karen HAD told her mother, apparently, about Drew hunting there. I think it was another relative that caught Drew and his dad hunting on the property and did not know permission had been granted by the grandmother. I suspect Karen's call to her mother that morning was to tell her to contact this other unnamed relative and let them know it was ok for Drew and dad to hunt there in the future. I'm thinking Drew had to get to work that morning, and after the run-in with said uninformed Bobo relative, he just gave up on hunting for the morning and got ready and went to work, because it is said he was there by 8 a.m.
Your right that basically that is what we were "TOLD" mainly from that specific Jackson article that came out much later that provided a lot more details than we ever saw before. I began to take that article with a somewhat "grain of salt" because prior to the article being published, the newspaper had made an announcement that it was looking for public input into the upcoming article, and when it finally came out, there was basically nothing from "Joe Public", and all the info was mainly derived directly from family or friends of family. It all could be accurate of course, but just to play devils advocate on the above....Here are my concerns....
(1) - I have hunted turkeys, and most people I hunt with arrive at the exact spot (sitting down + ready) to turkey hunt at least an hour before Sunrise. Mainly because you have to be there for their fly down from the roost at day break, but also to blend in with the woods, and let the animals settle down from your stomping in to the spot. This means, IMO, that they MAY have arrived there in their vehicle either 4:30, 5:30, or at the latest 6:30 IMO. I saw a previously mapped out distance to "said property", and even though it is made to sound (in the article) clear across the county, it seemed the estimated drive back to Parsons could be accomplished within an hour (estimate was about 45 minutes max). No links here, just from memory in seeing this somewhere.
(2) - The article is not clear that they were allowed to stay + hunt there (after confrontation), so they could have immediately left after said "confrontation".
(3) - IMO, I am not even convinced the "flurry of calls" was due to said "confrontation about hunting", but lets go with it for now.
(4) - From past experience in getting told NO HUNTING HERE, we would typically leave to go to another spot familiar to us that we had success at before and were familiar with. Not our first choice, but nonetheless a "guaranteed spot" to go hunting. Just something to think about.
(5) - IMO, OVERALL, I am very sceptical of the specific times mentioned (like arriving back at work at 8 AM), because of one main thing that was also stated in that same article. The article had Clint saying he woke up about 7:50 AM (if I remember correctly) when all previous reports talked about things happening around 7:30 ish. So, with that one C statement, I have kind of had to throw the baby out with the bath water, on a lot that was stated in that article. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
ALL JMO ONLY of course.
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