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Know what you’re shooting at
Tensas Nation Wildlife Refuge is home to a number of Louisiana black bears, and hunters should be aware that they are still protected from hunting.[…]
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Bucks by the numbers
Refuge Manager Kelly Purkey said the chances of killing a buck on Tensas NWR is pretty good. Last season the refuge produced three bucks scoring over 200 non-typical points.[…]
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About Tensas River NWR
Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1980 with the aim of saving and preserving “one of the largest privately owned tracts of bottomland hardwoods remaining in the Mississippi Delta.”[…]
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Balancing Act
We used to say at the deer camp not to shoot the does, now it’s don’t shoot the bucks. My how things have changed![…]
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How natural mortality figures into deer management
It is a given that deer are going to die annually on your property due to factors other than legal deer hunting.[…]
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Second Split Stand-off — Move stands to see more late-season deer
Da Saints had just stomped Da Falcons in Da Dome. Da Tigers were scheduled to stomp Bama at the championship the following week. And a perfectly-timed (for hunting) holiday cold-front was barreling through.
So spirits were soaring high at Da Camp as we converged the day after Christmas, with Da owners Eddie and Artie arriving elegantly late, as usual.
Exactly which one of Dem owned and ran the deer-club had never been precisely nailed down. Artie’s uncle more or less “founded” Da Lease back around the time “Bum” Phillips resigned as Saint’s coach in a huff.[…]
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Family matters — Quality deer management is a family matter on this land
Mark Huvall had seen a huge deer several times over the past few years, and now the buck was walking right into his lap.[…]
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You’ve got to let deer grow
According to Dugas, once hunters have decided just what is possible on their lands of choice for quality deer management — they then have to make a decision on what can be harvested.[…]
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Shoot does for better deer management
For a couple of reasons, Roland Dugas Jr., his family and guests take does during mid-October through mid-December.[…]
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Feeding quality whitetails critical to quality deer management
In Dugas’ opinion, food for quality whitetails has to be distributed throughout the entire property 12 months out of the year.[…]
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The QDM-DMAP Connection
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recognizes QDM as a valuable component to its Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP). The following statement appears on the LDWF website regarding QDM practices regarding DMAP:[…]
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Using Common Scents — The ins and outs of deer scents
As the story goes, Jake Spangler’s grandfather owned a meat market back during the depression years of the last century. Each Saturday the butcher would take an old man he knew a piece of meat just to help him out.[…]
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Not all scents created equally
It’s important to match a particular scent, be it an attractant or cover, to the area. In the Midwest and New England states, apple-scented lures may work well, but not so much in the marsh and woods of Louisiana.[…]
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Thistlethwaite Theorem — This WMA is the focus of a successful QDM experiment
Gerald Ducote of Melville had reason to be optimistic on Dec. 26.[…]
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Best time for using mock scrape lures
“Scents are kind of like fishing tackle,” Wildlife Research Center’s Ron Bice said. “You’ve got your Rapalas, Daredevils and different lures in your tackle box, and sometimes some work better than others. Just because you make 10 casts and you don’t catch anything doesn’t mean you throw out a proven lure.[…]
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Thistlethwaite WMA – the 10-year quality deer management experiment
Thistlethwaite WMA’s 11,000 acres of palmetto-laced hardwoods, located six miles north of Washington on state Highway 10 will be entering year eight of a 10-year experiment designed to deliver quality whitetail bucks such as Ducote’s.[…]