Voting to decide September Trail Cam Contest
Voting began this morning in the September edition of the Trail Cam Contest, with user determining who walks away with the monthly Sportsman Gear prize package.[…]
Voting began this morning in the September edition of the Trail Cam Contest, with user determining who walks away with the monthly Sportsman Gear prize package.[…]
Deer hunting begins Oct. 1 throughout the state, and there’s no better way to create lasting memories of your hunts than by videoing time in the stands.[…]
Louisiana deer hunters can get a little pugnacious when somebody starts talking about how good deer hunting is at their local wildlife management area.[…]
Rain = mosquitoes.
After a rain, the mosquitoes breed in the woods. And fast! By now, most people know that mosquitoes can potentially carry the West Nile virus, but I’d like to share a few other helpful facts.[…]
The Rattlebox from Back Mountain Outdoor Products replicates the sounds made when two full racked 120-inch class 8 point bucks lock antlers.[…]
Prairieville hunter David Ellis is like many hunters these days, setting up trail cameras on his hunting property near Natchez, Miss., to see if he has any monster bucks roaming the 160 acres.[…]
What is a trophy buck?
This is pretty much a subject for debate at every hunting camp in the state. It is also a subject written about every year in the many hunting magazines across the country.[…]
Louisiana deer hunters can get a little pugnacious when somebody starts talking about how good deer hunting is at their local wildlife management area.[…]
It’s GO time!
Since my last blog, I have made a few more scouting trips down to the Atchaflaya Delta WMA, including one where I found my game camera broken by a black bear.[…]
I looked across the forest floor, and all I saw was a sea of green. A broken canopy, one of the many lingering remnants of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, allowed sunlight to beam down to the detritus that is the organic base of every chunk of woods on the planet.[…]
The 2011-12 deer season opens tomorrow (Sept. 17) in Southwest Louisiana, and that means that deer will soon be hitting the ground.[…]
Setting out trail cameras has become one of my favorite parts of my hunting experience, adding a fun tactical advantage in planning hunts and scouting.[…]
The first round of the 2011 Trail Cam Contest goes to Chase Martinez, whose entry shows an alligator seemingly guarding a feed pile.[…]
I was fighting the morning commute when my cell phone rang. I knew it had to be Carlos. It was deer season — and he calls me at the same time almost every morning to talk about deer, guns and hunting.[…]
Scrapes and rubs are communication centers for deer, and hunters should not overlook setting up on a scrape or rub line. Generally these are located in the travel corridors located in transitions zones, where two habitat types come together.[…]
Last year’s rut, as predicted in the September 2010 issue of Louisiana Sportsman, was late and may have impacted hunter success, but the 2011 rut will start a couple of weeks earlier than last year and improve hunter’s chances for connecting with the big one.[…]