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Prescribed fire as a management tool
Fire can be your best friend or your worst enemy, depending on the context of how fire is used in your wildlife management program.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer Hunting
Hunters reminded of similarities between wild hog, bear silhouettes
As deer season prepares to ramp up and hunters begin to trek into the woods and marshes across the state, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries would like to remind everyone of the similarity between wild hog and black bear silhouettes.[…]
Deer Hunting
Who’s your daddy?
Research studies in the Southeast have found that a doe can be bred by multiple bucks and produce fawns with different fathers.[…]
Deer Hunting
How do you know when a doe was bred?
Determining breeding dates is a matter of normal biological activity for a deer biologist.[…]
Deer Hunting
Coyote harassment and bedding
Coyotes are known for disrupting the whitetail’s normal feeding and bedding routines. This harassment can cause deer to be highly unpredictable, becoming more evasive in their attempts to throw off the canines.[…]
Deer Hunting
Post-rut bedding
Once the rut slows down and the post-rut begins, surviving deer will eventually return to bedding sites used prior to the rut — as long as there was no intrusion.[…]
Deer Hunting
Plano’s model 1144 bow case adjusts to any bow
With today’s modern compound bows coming in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, it’s sometimes difficult to pick the right bow case.[…]
Deer Hunting
Barnett Ghost 410 wins Outdoor Life Editor’s Choice Award
The Ghost 410 by Barnett is as quiet as its name implies.[…]
Deer Hunting
Texas man pleads guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm
A man arrested in January by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents in connection with night hunting violations in Caddo Parish pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in U.S. Federal Western District Court in Shreveport.[…]
Deer Hunting
Stealthy Micro Crush Cam 10 trail camera is user-friendly
The Micro Crush Cam 10 from Wildgame Innovations features a sleek body style with a 10 megapixel camera designed with infrared technology to take perfect photos or HD 720 video day or night.[…]
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2013-14 Rut Report
Many factors can impact the breeding season of deer but, for the most part, breeding activity occurs during the same month every year.[…]
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Bedded down — How to use the bedding instinct against deer
After early morning foraging, the white-tailed buck moves into the adjacent woodlands. He slowly and effortlessly follows a deer trail up a steep ridge. With a steady pace, he heads to familiar ground.[…]
Deer Hunting
Laser Game Marker pinpoints exactly where deer falls
Hunter’s Tech has developed a product, the Laser Game Marker, that will help deer hunters mark and track deer that are shot during the last few minutes of daylight.[…]
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Planting tree plots
Properly constructed tree plots are a wonderful addition to a system of seasonal food plots on just about any piece of hunting property.[…]
Deer Hunting
Diversity in the woods
If you are an avid reader of this magazine, then you read about the black bear killing a calf in West Carroll Parish. […]
Deer Hunting
What we do not see in the cutover
When conducting a browse survey on an area it is sometimes beneficial to take note of the plants you are not seeing in the survey as well as those that you are finding.[…]