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Bucks Look Up
I could see halfway down ivory antlers that looked wide and heavy moving above the gallberry bushes. I stood quietly, clicked my mechanical release onto the string of my bow and prepared to draw.[…]
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Black Gold
Gilbert’s James McMurray was getting worried. Deer season was ending and his freezer was sorely lacking packages marked “venison” to carry his family through the months ahead.[…]
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Back to Normal
Like most everybody else in Southeast Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, my family and I spent our days assessing damage, clearing downed trees and just generally looking after other folks. Normal seemed such a long way away. It still does.[…]
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The Cousin’s Tale
He missed the really exciting times in the swamp.
By the time he got out of the Army, back from Vietnam, and back in college, working on his graduate degree, it was several years after all the night hunting and control shooting had occurred.[…]
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The Thrill’s in the Kill
Something flickers, and my head jerks left. I tense up. My eyes focus. These are predator eyes, quick to spot movement. And they face forward, like the lion, leopard, falcon and wolf, the better to stalk and ambush prey.[…]
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Oodles of Options
Big Lake has a well-deserved reputation for outstanding speckled trout and redfish angling in its wide-open 52,000 surface acres.
But October provides an outstanding opportunity for fishermen to stretch their wings to other regions north of Calcasieu Lake.[…]
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Living (DU)large
Heaven for Brennan Head feels a lot like hell.
When the rest of South Louisiana is perspiring at leisure and debating the feasibility of cooking breakfast on the sidewalk, Head is smiling.[…]
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Keep Your Powder Dry
I admit I was pumped. The prospect of taking a deer with my muzzleloader on video set pretty well with me.
I was hunting with good friend Luke Lewis on a hunting lease that is adjacent to Jackson-Bienville Wildlife Management Area south of Ruston. Lewis, a wildlife biologist, planned to video me taking a deer on video, and was all set to preserve my special moment for my grandchildren to one day enjoy.
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Bushytail Baksheesh
The smell of fat, homemade biscuits and Community coffee greeted us as we rolled out of bed.[…]
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Boudreaux Tackles Alaska
There were just too many caribou charging through the valley at once. Hank, 11 years old, had a hard time drawing a bead on a good bull.[…]
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Cover: October 2005
Want to kill a big buck with your muzzleloader? In this issue, we tell you about two public areas that’ll give you better odds than most.[…]
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Mojo Management
For more than 35 years, Mike Centanni didn’t simply hope to kill deer — he expected to.[…]
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Cover: September 2005
COVER: Louisiana Sportsman kicks off the hunting seasons with its forecasts for WMAs, ducks, and the deer rut.[…]
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Way, Way, Way Down There
Many people fish — or at least profess to fish — just for the thrill of feeling the raw piscatorial power throbbing through the line.[…]
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Tarpon in the Triangle
As the morning sun was just starting to glow over the horizon, the Mr. Todd made its way down Tiger Pass. The needle on the vessel’s temperature gauge climbed almost as quickly as the thermometer, reflecting the record 95-degree heat radiating from the nearby marsh.
Capt. Coon Schouest slowed the vessel to check out the situation.[…]
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Slack Busters
Robbie’s face lit up. His eyes bugged. A crazy grin creased his face. He’d just answered the cell phone from the passenger seat as we passed the Greater Macedonian Baptist Church on the way down to Venice.[…]