In some ways, 9-year-old Brier Williamson is a typical third grader. He enjoys school, but looks forward to those weekends when his dad drives him down from their Rayville home to Ridgecrest to hunt with his grandfather Jerry Poole. […]
Opening day (Nov. 19) in Area 4 dawned warm and muggy, and Bastrop insurance agent Bardell Bostick decided to sleep in that morning. However, his hunting buddy talked him into going to his stand that afternoon, and he’s glad he did.[…]
As a first-grade teacher at Sterlington Elementary School, Melissa Winkler is accustomed to her students asking her permission for things they want or need to do.[…]
Twenty-two-year-old Cody Bergeron has taken a definite liking to hunting North Louisiana, especially a private tract in Tensas Parish where one Jan. 8 he downed a 10-point buck that has green scored in the mid 160s Boone & Crockett.
It was a kill that almost didn’t happen because the Gonzales hunter wanted to give up on the deer because of what he deemed to be unfavorable rutting conditions when they arrived at the property near Waterproof.[…]
A shot in the gloaming was all it took for Michael Golden to get his shot of a lifetime.[…]
Ryan Evans has spent a lot of time hunting public lands, and Red River Wildlife Management Area is so close to his heart that he bought some nearby property and has been working on building a camp.
But Evans had been so busy on the camp and squirrel hunting with his kids that he hadn’t had time to make a deer hunt on Red River. So it didn’t take much for brother to convince him to make a trip on Friday (Jan. 13).
Ryan Evans left that evening with a true public-lands trophy —a 155-inch 11-point.[…]
Alton McLeod is no stranger to Tensas National Wildlife Refuge, having spent time hunting there every for 25 years. But it was the choice to hunt a new part of the 80,000-acre public property that paid the biggest dividends of his hunting career Saturday (Jan. 7).
That’s when he arrowed a monster 28-point that has been green scored at 222 inches Pope & Young, which could make it the largest non-typical deer ever killed by a bow hunter in the state.[…]
The buck was no secret on the St. Francisville lease: Everyone had seen the trail cam photos of the huge deer last season, but the beast seemed to have disappeared midway through that season.
Baton Rouge’s Todd Tregre and his buddies fretted the deer had been shot elsewhere, and then the animal’s image appeared on a trail cam in February.[…]
Gabe Tunnard made a last-minute decision on Dec. 23 to use his girlfriend’s rifle when he headed to his favorite stand on his West Feliciana lease.[…]
Ryan Bergeron had seen a big buck on a few trail-cam photos throughout the early season, and he was thinking about the deer on Dec. 28 while sitting in a climbing stand on his West Feliciana Parish lease.[…]
Jamie Brown pulled on her hot-pink bibs, drove up to her deer stand in her hot-pink jeep and promptly bagged a deer. With all these “girly” things going on, it was only natural that the deer she bagged was a doe.
However, it was no ordinary doe; the weird deer sported a velvet covered 5-point rack with a 20-inch inside spread and unbelievable 9 ¼-inch bases.[…]
Winter Quarters, a 10,000-acre hunting club situated inside the Mississippi River levee in Tensas Parish, has a rule hunters follow to determine if a buck is mature enough to take: The animal has to have main beams measuring at least 20 inches.
The buck that stepped into Dr. Kenny Cox’s crosshairs Nov. 25 easily passed the eyeball test. The brute not only met the 20 inch minimum; it exceeded it by 7 ½ inches on the left and 6 ¾ inches on the right, and has green scored at more than 160 inches Boone & Crockett.[…]
When the deer you’re after is a mature heavy-antlered buck, everything has to be perfect to give a hunter the best chance at scoring a trophy. Or does it?[…]
Ron Anderson and the buddy with whom he shares hunting rights on a couple of hundred acres in East Feliciana Parish weren’t happy with how the season was unfolding.[…]
The vast majority of deer hunters in Louisiana look for their quarry from the vantage point of elevated stands. Many also utilize trail cameras to give them an idea of what they’re hunting.[…]
Berl Lawson’s dad erected a deer stand at the edge of a pasture on the family’s cattle farm 25 years ago, a stand the elder Lawson hunted until his son was older. Now that Berl has a 13-years-old son, Lewis, the youngster is claiming squatter’s rights to the stand, and with good reason.[…]