Columns
Lessons learned
As this article goes to press, the 2012-13 deer season is about three months in the rear view mirror. As they say, “It is time to re-load and re-mount.”[…]
Deer Hunting
Columns
Field judging a buck’s age, Part II
In the March installment of Happy Trails, we looked at the topic of “aging bucks on the hoof,” paying particular attention to the possible use of certain visual geometric clues regarding the relationship of the tips of the antler beams to the eye and/or nose when viewed from the side as a way to reliably judge a given buck’s age in the field.[…]
Columns
Are you ‘coyoted-up?’
At the recent meeting of the Southeast Deer Study Group in South Carolina, the talk among the deer researchers and biologists continued to focus on coyotes and fawn depredation, the lack of fawn recruitment in various herds and the continuing spread of CWD in this country.[…]
Columns
Field judging bucks in the real world
In the January issue we covered the topic of “aging bucks on the hoof.”[…]
Deer Hunting
West Monroe high-schooler wins Yamaha ATV in Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest
Some people are so lucky, you can’t help but laugh. Take West Monroe’s Kendall Haygood, for instance.[…]
Columns
Time to do the math
The deer season is over, and it is now time to measure the antlers and recognize the trophy-class bucks, along with looking at the deer harvest data and determining what has been accomplished with your deer management program.[…]
Deer Hunting
2013 Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest set for March 15-17
The Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest is back, and it’s set to be bigger than ever.[…]
Columns
In-season feeder surveillance
Every year I take full advantage of the Mississippi regulation that allows supplemental feeding of shelled corn to deer by way of feeders between the first day of December and the last day of February of each deer season.[…]
Breaking News
LDWF proposes sweeeping changes to 2013-14 deer-hunting season
If Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries managers have their way, wholesale changes are coming to Louisiana deer-hunting seasons — one of the most striking being the re-implementation of designated either-sex days.
So-called “doe days” were ended in 2006, the LDWF said.
Changes listed in a notice of intent issued by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission yesterday (Feb. 7) also included the addition of three new hunting zones.[…]
Deer of the Year
Patience pays off with 170-inch buck
There is an old proverb that says good things happen for those who wait. In 31-year-old John Gaiennie’s case, that good thing was a 260-pound Tensas Parish buck that green scored over 170 inches.
And the Baton Rouge hunter had to wait more than an hour with the deer in his vision before finally getting a shot of the brute while hunting on the 6,000-acre Somerset Hunting Club in Tensas Parish.[…]
Deer Hunting
Some hunters scout for deer during turkey season
Curtis Simpson specifically targets big bucks when he scouts during February, so he only looks for buck signs like rubs and scrapes.[…]
Contents
Deer of the Year
The 2012-13 hunting season opened with real promise, as the past couple of years produced dozens of absolute hammer bucks.[…]
Contents
Connect the Dots — Deer scouting in February can lead to success next hunting season
My imagination would not allow me to complete connect-the-dot books.[…]
Deer Hunting
Target June for game camera monitoring of bucks
Digital game cameras have become essential gear for deer hunters. They are our eyes in the woods even when we can’t be there, and they show us scenes we could have only imagined before.[…]
Deer of the Year
Red River WMA gives up huge buck
Hunting public land takes a bit of extra work. That’s a lesson Trent Boudreaux learned when he first started hunting Red River Wildlife Management Area as a teenager in 1998.[…]
Deer of the Year
Hunter’s wish comes true with trophy Tensas Parish buck
Kyle O’Neal of West Monroe has followed the big-buck articles in Louisiana Sportsman, texting comments to the author that always end with statements similar to “I wish I could get one big enough for you to write about.”[…]