General
Cannon Scout Series
With solid fire protection and a wide variety of features, a Cannon Scout Series safe is a good investment in securing your valuables.[…]
Year: 2012
Hunting
EPIC HD 1080
The EPIC 1080 Adventure Camera has the ability to record in stunning 1920×1080 High Definition, capturing all the action of the hunt with sharp, high-resolution video and crisp, clear audio.[…]
Columns
One gun theory
An old chestnut states “Beware the man with one gun.”[…]
Bass Fishing
Crankbait Campaign Trail
This one leans to the left; that one goes far right. Here’s one that keeps a centrist course.[…]
Bass Fishing
Don’t lose your cool — or your lure
About the only thing on a lake’s bottom that never gets tired of biting is the bottom itself. Particularly with moving “reaction” lures like crankbaits, snags are practically an assumption.[…]
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Hunting with Your Mouth Full
With the exception of what comes from wildlife and wild fisheries, almost everything the Earth’s peoples eat and wear comes from agriculture. The United States is truly a land of plenty, where real hunger isn’t felt. Hunters, like other Americans, have full mouths and bellies.[…]
Fishing
Closing the Gap
A huge gap exists between amateurs and professionals in most sports.[…]
Bass Fishing
Wind and tide two main variables
One of the most important considerations for heading to fish the Caernarvon area is just how quickly conditions can change.[…]
Bass Fishing
Hit the high-percentage spots
One of the things that BASS Elite Series professional angler Clark Reehm kept pointing out over and over as he discussed bass fishing around Delacroix was fishing what he called high-percentage places.[…]
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Belated Bucks
In the northwest corner of Louisiana, Red River bass fishing guide Russ McVey sits in a box stand overlooking a pipeline with his daughter Madison about to run out of iPod battery. They hope a buck trying to recover from the rut wants to grab a few kernels of corn.[…]
Deer Hunting
Creative corn techniques
In his efforts to save some money when it comes to the cost of corn, Russ McVey has learned that spreading it with an ATV spreader a few days before he hunts works well for him[…]
Deer Hunting
Concealment key to late-season hunts
One of the tallest hurdles about hunting late season deer is that they are on the back end of a season during which they have just about seen, heard and smelled it all. Deer are wary enough, but deer that have learned how to avoid being shot take the cake.[…]
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Bayou Bienvenue is BACK!
Everybody wondered if the fishing action around Bayou Bienvenue could ever recover. Like so many other fishing areas in Southeast Louisiana, Bayou Bienvenue was adversely affected by the BP oil spill and the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Great Wall is amazing
The Great Wall is almost 2 miles long and runs across the St. Bernard marsh, blocking the MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, or Ship Channel), Bayou Bienvenue and the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway).[…]
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Red Storm
It is your classic good-news/bad-news tale. The good news is there are more red snapper around the oil rigs in the northern Gulf of Mexico today than ever before, and they are much bigger than they have ever been.[…]
Hunting
Finish Strong
Imagine if every time you went to your refrigerator or pantry someone was there to smack you over the head just as you reached in for something to eat. You’re starving, craving your favorite snack, then out of nowhere, BLAM! Suddenly something prevents you from filling your stomach and satisfying your hunger, or more importantly, something stands in the way of you surviving.[…]