The opening days of the season can be very crowded with 1500 to 2000 hunters using the area each day, with the average of 350 hunters daily during the rest of the season. Duck numbers vary from one year to the next depending on the mast crop and water levels. Deer hunting is good also. During the permit gun hunt, it is not unusual for 40 to 60 bucks to be harvested off the area. Squirrel hunting is usually excellent, but populations fluctuate depending on availability of food.
Raccoon hunting is good.
Dogs are allowed for squirrel, coon and rabbit hunting. Turkeys were stocked on the area from 1941-1968. Turkey hunting is fair to good with spring flooding often limiting hunter activity and reproductive success of the birds. They are managed on a two-year rotation. Cox Cypress Lake, a 200 acre lake, is noted for excellent crappie fishing in early spring.