Deer Hunting
Best deer-tracking equipment
Successful tracking does not require any hi-tech equipment, although special lights and Luminol-type products are available.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer Hunting
Backing off plots puts less pressure on deer
When former Louisiana Sportsman editor Todd Masson and I began working on my land in Washington Parish, we set out stands right on the edges of the small plots we had planted.[…]
Deer Hunting
Soybeans proved to be the buck meal ticket
If there has been any one magic ingredient that has attracted more deer to my small property in Washington Parish, it has been the implementation of a summer food plot program.[…]
Deer Hunting
Scent-control tips for bowhunters
Curtis Simpson has devised a system of washing, spraying and height that has proven good enough to help him hide from deer noses.[…]
Deer Hunting
Patience required to maximize stand setup
If your property is large enough to hold deer, West Monroe bowhunter Curtis Simpson believes you can help hold more deer by setting up a system of stands that move progressively deeper from the outside edges of the land to the interior where bigger bucks are likely to be.[…]
Deer Hunting
Preseason bow-hunting prep important
Dan Preaus played baseball at Louisiana Tech during his college years, and he said playing that game and bow-hunting deer requires attention to some of the same factors.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer hunters reminded about either-sex tag option for 2013-14 season
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is reminding state hunters the six tags issued with 2013-14 big game licenses include an either-sex tag.[…]
Deer of the Year
Ruston hunter arrows big velvet buck in Tensas Parish
Ruston’s Lane Cox and his hunting buddy Brandon Hearn attach nicknames to the deer they hunt at Winter Quarters Hunting and Fishing Club in Tensas Parish. […]
Deer of the Year
Central hunter arrows 11-pointer in West Feliciana Parish
Dustin Henson is a self-proclaimed trail camera junkie, always monitoring four or five cameras on his 1,500-acre Wakefield lease in West Feliciana Parish.[…]
Deer of the Year
West Monroe hunter arrows 154-inch brute
The skies opened and the bottom fell out the first weekend in October across North Louisiana, as a weather system with accompanying cold front sloshed through. But Bill Petrus, a West Monroe businessman and avid bow hunter, didn’t let that bother him.[…]
Deer Hunting
Safety harness saves West Bank bowhunter from 20-foot fall in Caldwell Parish
Mitchell Franks’ Wednesday afternoon bow hunt started out like countless others he’d experienced as he settled into a 20-foot-high lock-on tree stand in central Caldwell Parish.[…]
Deer of the Year
Ponchatoula hunter takes three-beam West Feliciana Parish buck
The time and effort Michael Marciante spent carefully concealing and brushing a ground blind at his West Feliciana Parish lease over Labor Day weekend paid off pretty quick just before dark on opening day.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Communication
Scent pheromones and their distinct odors are instinctively utilized by whitetails to convey a realm of communication related to dominant hierarchy and sexual interactions.[…]
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Time Sensitive — Early season bow-hunting tips for public lands
Temperature’s dropping to 48! But it’s two days after Christmas. Getting in your deerstand for dawn? Probably. But you’re not really pumped for the occasion.[…]
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After the shot — Tips on tracking deer
It is often at the most disheartening times that we have an epiphany and realize we must change our ways. For Thibodaux’s Joshua Chauvin, that defining moment came when he was just 17 years old.[…]
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End of the Beginning — How to make the move from deer hunter to deer manager
A tan streak flashed across the front of my truck as my son and I made our way to school a few weeks ago.[…]