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.[…]
Users MIKE GOLDEN and BassHunter520 won this month’s photo contests, while longtime member LETUMGROW earned the top spot in the Deer Hunting Video Contest.[…]
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?[…]
Voting has begun to determine the winners of the December edition of the Nikon Big Buck Photo and Trail Cam contests.[…]
In his efforts to save some money when it comes to the cost of corn, Russ McVey has learned that spreading it with an ATV spreader a few days before he hunts works well for him[…]
One of the tallest hurdles about hunting late season deer is that they are on the back end of a season during which they have just about seen, heard and smelled it all. Deer are wary enough, but deer that have learned how to avoid being shot take the cake.[…]
Lincoln Parish deer measures 161 7/8 inches Boone & Crockett.[…]
In my lifetime, I have only known the Delta to be an expanse of rowed-up dirt that is planted annually with various crops that feed and clothe the world. Deltans can look across a field that continues for miles with no apparent end.[…]
In the northwest corner of Louisiana, Red River bass fishing guide Russ McVey sits in a box stand overlooking a pipeline with his daughter Madison about to run out of iPod battery. They hope a buck trying to recover from the rut wants to grab a few kernels of corn.[…]
The old Carol Burnett Show used to end with the phrase “Seems we just got started and before you know, it’s time to go.” For me it seems the deer season just opened, and now this is the last month of the season.[…]
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.[…]