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Defining a true sportsman
A few weeks ago, I spent Friday night at Camp David so I could get an early start on our Saturday work project and to check on the pig that seems to always be eluding me. […]
Grunts & Gobbles
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Put a ribbon on it
The deer hunting is over and it’s time to talk turkey. But before the gobbling and clucking begins, the 33rd Annual Louisiana Sportsmen’s Show & Festival will take place in Gonzales on March 9-11, and it is time to look at some of those deer heads that were featured in the Deer of the Year story in last month’s issue. […]
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A new year in paradise
The magazine in the doctor’s office referred to Grand Teton National Park as a nature lover’s paradise. No doubt it is, especially in the winter when the game descends the mountains and walks around with the humans. […]
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A new year
The old Carol Burnett Show used to end with the phrase “Seems we just got started and before you know, it’s time to go.” For me it seems the deer season just opened, and now this is the last month of the season. […]
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Success is all about timing
If you like baseball, then you probably watched the World Series games between the Rangers and the Cardinals. If you did, you saw some excellent hitting — Albert Pujols hitting three homers in a game, Josh Hamilton hitting what Ranger fans thought was the Series winner in Game 6. […]
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Escape the dark side
The key to a successful deer program is to keep the habitat productive for deer throughout the entire year, not just during the hunting season. In fact, when the hunting season comes around, deer growth and development is over, and it is now harvest time. […]
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Nock-n-hold, lock-n-load: The 2011 season is here
While Tropical Storm Lee put a damper on the opening of dove season, there is still much to be excited about. I visited Bowie Outfitters and took advantage of the tax-free weekend for guns, and ammo and there were plenty of others doing the same. […]
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Solar power lighting up and pigging out
As I have mentioned before, it seems like there is an article about feral hogs in every hunting and wildlife magazine on the stands. Since the season is wide open on pigs, I have made an effort to hunt them hard this summer and reduce their numbers around Camp David. […]
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Management work continues despite the high water
A lot of time, money and effort spent doing wildlife habitat work is being washed away as the waters of the Mississippi rise and are diverted into the floodway systems. […]
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Deer, turkey seasons over, but management work continues
When the hunting seasons end, many hunters leave the fields and woods, and never look back until next fall rolls around. For them it’s off to the lakes and rivers, baseball fields, NASCAR tracks or whatever gets them excited now. […]
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An old Revelation brings success on a turkey hunt
I could not hunt the opening day of the 2010 turkey season due to an obligation to teach a deer hunting and management seminar in Alexandria. […]
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Grunting is over, gobbling has begun
For the most part, the 2010-11 deer season is over, although I still have scrape cameras out in Pointe Coupee Parish (Upper Area 6), and no doubt will have photographs of antlered bucks on them during the middle of March and possibly into mid-April. […]
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Tom foolery time at Terra Nova
A few years ago, the Moreland/Guidry families invested in 25 acres in East Feliciana Parish about 10 miles east of Clinton. My wife came up with the name Terra Nova for this property (Terra Nova is Latin for New Land). […]
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Time for the Tenth Legion to make ready
It’s never fun spending the holidays at the hospital, but I guess it is worse when you know a loved one is not coming home. My wife’s father, Robert H. Parks Sr. (better known as PawPaw), died on New Years Day. […]
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It’s time for some serious deer hunting
The estrus or heat cycle of a white-tailed doe lasts for 24 hours. This is the only time that she will stand still and allow a buck to breed her. Prior to this, she would run away from his advances, and this activity is referred to as the chase phase of the rut. […]
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Late fawns, feeding deer, rut update
I took the photograph of the spotted fawn in East Feliciana Parish on Sept. 29, two days before the 2010 bow season opened. […]