Hunting success comes from planning ahead.
Even though the 2012 turkey season has ended and the 2012 deer season is months away, it is not time to leave the woods and go fishing; there is plenty of work to do to get the habitat in shape for the new turkey poults and for the upcoming deer season.[…]
A recent study found that the average age of college students is on the rise. Over 38 percent are now 25 or older.[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
I found your article on GPS datum settings very interesting. Differences between the NAD 27,83 and WGS 84 were very interesting. Thank you[…]
The buck movement trends that I have chronicled on my property over the past few years have proven helpful during deer season.[…]
Have you ever heard of the VPC?
The Violence Policy Center was formed in 1988 by individuals from a group of long-time, prominent anti-gun activists.[…]
The freshwater fish family Centrarchidae, commonly called the sunfish family, is arguably the most-important freshwater fish family for North American sportsmen.[…]
My dad grew up in North Louisiana when deer could only be found in the thick bottomlands of the Tensas River delta and anyone killing one was hailed a hero.[…]
It wasn’t too many years ago that if you shot a bow — a compound bow — you were among a select group of hunters who loved the pursuit of that extra challenge. It seems now the trend is even going one step farther.[…]
With the weekend set, I was eagerly anticipating a full-out ruthless fishing assault at my lil’ brothers bachelor party in Cocodrie. Unexpectedly, there was a last minute curve ball thrown at us: A huge, swirling low-pressure system making its way from Texas was planning to curve toward us all three days.[…]
Louisiana Sportsman is of course the best outdoor publication around, but I do read a few others. So when the March 2012 issue of Petersen’s Hunting hit the mailbox I took a quick look at the petersenshunting.com page for the monthly highlights.[…]
In February, the Wyoming state legislature considered an amendment to a bill requiring that state to purchase an aircraft carrier. Even though it failed, there were 22 legislators who voted for the amendment.[…]
A recent concealed carry class included a newlywed couple. The young woman was an attractive emergency room nurse with a winning smile, long brown hair and a dad who was a retired federal law enforcement officer.[…]
For a man who has been making some of the finest artificial lures in the country for 31 years, Texan Lonnie Stanley sure was talking excitedly — gushing, actually — at length a few weeks ago about his newest baby: a Wedgetail Mini Wedge Runner.[…]
The late Ken Morgan believed that turkey hunting was a one-man game. In fact, he wrote a book titled “Turkey Hunting: A One Man Game.”[…]
Dear Capt. Paul:
My Garmin GPSMAP 60csx has some downloaded maps from Garmin MapSource TOPO 1:100,000, but these maps aren’t very good for marsh fishing. My Blackberry cell phone gives me Google Earth, but it won’t stand up to rain/pounding and it doesn’t work where there is no cell phone service. Is there a way to get Google Earth maps on my map60csx?[…]
Cobia, also locally called lemonfish or ling, are a prized Gulf of Mexico fish. They are cool fish and their mild meat is prized in Louisiana.[…]