Deer of the Year
East Baton Rouge doe hunt ends with 160-inch buck
Sometimes nothing goes your way when you hit the woods, but then there are the times when everything just falls into place.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer of the Year
Tunica Hills doe hunt ends with 160-inch buck
Teddy Roussel is good to his fiancé. Really good.[…]
Deer Hunting
Going coastal: Up your odds of deer-hunting in the marshes
The suspicious speck of white flickered some 200 yards away, resembling what might have been simply a bird flying or the cotton-like puff from the head of a cattail bursting its contents in the wind.[…]
Columns
All flashes are not equal
This past week I ran by the showroom of one of my favorite hunting-products companies that, fortunately for me, happens to be headquartered about a 20-minute drive from my home.[…]
Deer Hunting
Lake Charles man found dead in apparent hunting accident
A 60-year-old Lake Charles man was found dead in woods near Reeves in what the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries said was an apparent fatal hunting accident, the agency reported today (Oct. 19).[…]
Deer Hunting
200-inch Mississippi buck arrowed
It was fitting that Shane Ragon fell to his knees when he first put his hands on the massive antlers of the buck he killed Oct. 6 in the middle of a sweet potato field near his home in Calhoun County.
Heck, he was on both knees when he made the shot.
“I am not ashamed to tell you that I got very emotional when I grabbed those antlers and lifted them up and saw what I had done,” the 40-year-old Ragon said. “I cried. I laughed. I cried again. And I laughed again.[…]
Apex Predator
Close call with deer calls
The weekend started slow for me. Laura had a hog walk behind her within 30 yards on Friday (Oct. 12) morning, but she couldn’t see it in the thick underbrush from her ground blind. She heard it softly grunt several times.
I had no action on either hunt Friday or Saturday morning. Things picked up on my midday stalk when I came across this huge king snake and a large 8-foot gator in a small 6-inch deep hole about 10 yards across. It was by far the longest king snake I ever seen. They are such pretty and friendly snakes, unlike the gator who wasn’t very happy to be stuck in a small place with me nearby.[…]
Deer Hunting
Food facts: Target the best deer foods to kill more deer
As we all know, the 2011 mast crop was tremendous, but the overall statewide deer harvest was way down from past years.[…]
Deer Hunting
State deer herd hit with hemorrhagic disease
LouisianaSportsman.com user “papa-p” was shocked when he checked his trail camera recently and found a photo of what could only be described as a very sick deer.[…]
Apex Predator
Hits, misses and predator control
I couldn’t wait to hunt opening day, but as the season approached road blocks were getting in the way of my plans. My water heater had busted and then broke in my camp the previous week, spewing water everywhere.[…]
Deer of the Year
Opening weekend yields 140-inch buck for Claiborne Parish hunter
When Melinda Yocum surprised her husband Rex with a new bow for Christmas three years ago, he was hopeful it would perform better than his previous outfit.[…]
Breaking News
Southeast Louisiana deer regulations modified
Deer-hunting regulations in a portion of Southeast Louisiana have been modified for the 2012-13 season because of the impacts of Hurricane Isaac, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced today (Oct. 4).[…]
Deer Hunting
Opening-day success
At the age of 54, I still have trouble sleeping the night before the opening day of bow season. I tossed and turned, and was ready to go before the alarm clock went off at 3:55 a.m.[…]
Deer Hunting
Pile Driv’r auger feeder system
With supplemental feeding rapidly becoming one of the most important aspects of Quality Deer Management, Wildgame Innovations is announcing a new kind of feeder that maximizes the potential of supplemental feed.[…]
Deer Hunting
The one deer book you have to read
Deer-hunting success comes down to how much work you’ve put in, and it’s a never-ending battle to gain the upper hand on a wily buck.[…]
Contents
Suburban cross: Learn how to hunt suburban deer
By 8:20 a.m. five text messages had alerted me to many vital matters.[…]