790 - 85-Year-Old Game Warden Tells the CRAZIEST Poaching Stories Ever | Ray Kilgore

This episode is pure old-school Alabama outdoors history. Ray Kilgore spent 26 years hunting poachers across the Alabama River with no backup, no cell phones, and sometimes no idea if he was walking into danger.

At 85 years old, Ray shares some of the wildest game warden stories we’ve ever heard, from chasing night hunters through soybean fields to uncovering illegal fishing operations using old crank telephones.

If you enjoy real hunting history, outlaw stories, and hearing how things USED to be in the Deep South… this one is hard to beat.

• Working as a game warden in Alabama starting in 1968• Hunting armed poachers with no backup• Alabama River outlaw stories• Night hunters shooting deer from boats• Illegal fish shocking with crank telephones• The ORIGINAL deer decoy sting operations• Wives acting as getaway drivers for poachers• Old-school game warden tactics before modern technology• Threats from poachers and dangerous encounters• How game wardens and hunting culture changed over time• Crazy stories from Monroe County in the 60s and 70s• Ray’s advice for young game wardens today

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