Scent Shield key to bagging bucks
Brad Doughty is an excellent deer hunter, regularly bagging big bucks on public land. However, he does it with a little help from his Scent Shield and deer calls.[…]
Brad Doughty is an excellent deer hunter, regularly bagging big bucks on public land. However, he does it with a little help from his Scent Shield and deer calls.[…]
As passionate as Brad Doughty is about chasing trophy whitetails, he is also an avid bow fisherman in a quest for outsized alligator gar and boss gobblers.[…]
Brad Doughty relies heavily on two deer calls — a bleat can and a grunt tube — to draw in bucks during the rut.[…]
Steve Smith is the ultimate teacher. The back of his business card is emblazoned with “Things to know before you go!!!!,’’ followed by directions to four information sources to make successful Vermilion Bay area fishing trips on your own.[…]
Tete Butte Reef is a natural reef comprised almost entirely of oyster shells. Most of the shell is dead, and much of the crest of the reef is made up of broken shell hash.[…]
Many hunters claim they would like to kill trophies, while at the same time making hunting all about the numbers. What these hunters don’t understand is that quality deer require time to develop, and that means sacrifices have to be made.[…]
Complementing the umbrella rig’s benefit of quantity, you also have an amplified element of experimentation.[…]
Similar to its bass-market counterparts, the multi-bait crappie rig has seen rapidly expanding creativity. Local models and homemade jobs are many, but here are a handful of commercial models:[…]
Little things make big differences in all hunting.
Let’s face it: Hunters who succeed time after time — as well as those that don’t — do 99 percent of everything the same. They get up at the same time, shoot the same guns, wear the same clothes, hunt the same areas and use the same calls and attractants.[…]
Ducks and geese have to be the most difficult of all game animals to cook. They have a reputation for being strong and gamey — almost “livery” in taste.[…]
Hunters who plan to only use the breasts of their ducks have little need to clean and transport whole birds from the field or camp to their home.[…]
Swamp rabbits are larger than their upland cousins, and the habitat they reside in is some of the toughest terrain you’ll ever walk and hunt in.[…]
Rabbit meat is some of the most-delicious meat you can harvest. While some claim they don’t care for the gamey taste, I’ve found quite often is it’s all in the handling.[…]
“When I was a kid, squirrel hunting was a big traditional thing, like deer hunting is now,” Bob Childress said. “Men would schedule their time off around squirrel season.[…]
Kisatchie National Forest is a gem for Louisiana hunters and fishermen, one surprisingly little known beyond the Shreveport to Alexandria corridor where most of its lands lie.[…]
Squirrels have some of the sweetest and whitest meat of all game animals. Here’s Bob Childress’s recipe for Old-fashioned squirrel gravy.[…]