Shooting technique, form, practice and practicing in the situation similar to your hunting setup can be great preparation for hunting success, but at the moment of truth the rubber meets the road. Can you handle the heat?[…]
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents rescued a missing father and his two sons today (Nov. 3) in Union Parish, after the trio failed to return from D’Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge.[…]
Voting has begun in the Nikon Deer of the Year and the Trail Cam contests, with each winner receiving an Official Sportsman Gear prize package. Voting will continue until noon Wednesday (Nov. 3), at which time winners will be announced.[…]
Hunting deer on public land in Louisiana can be very rewarding. Whether you choose one of the wildlife management areas or a national wildlife refuges, you will have the opportunity to fill your doe and buck tags without having to put up with the expense of joining a private club or leasing land.[…]
Along the forest edge, a whitetail buck hesitates beneath the overhanging branches of a pine tree. Then with ease, the animal stretches its neck up toward a particular limb and begins to rub its mouth and forehead on the limb. Closing its eyelids, it resumes this behavior on the tree.[…]
Depending on the weather and, of course, the hunter turnout, Clear Creek Wildlife Management Area usually produces a decent harvest of deer each year. The whitetail deer at Clear Creek are not as large as their cousins at Jackson-Bienville and other Mississippi River Delta WMAs, but the area has produced some nice racks.[…]
Every deer hunter in Louisiana thinks his parish has the most notoriously nocturnal deer in the entire state.[…]
Louisiana’s public lands will surrender trophy bucks this season. Follow this issue’s tips to up the odds one will fall to you.[…]
Josh Chauvin was on a mission. He had paid his dues, and knew the small portion of Red River Wildlife Management Area like the back of his hand. Maybe even better.[…]
Due to military training exercises, the Peason Ridge Wildlife Management Area will be closed Oct. 30-31 for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries either-sex hunt.[…]
Hammond’s Brandon Amar really wasn’t after a big buck when he dropped off his buddy Saturday (Oct. 16) for a hunt on the 6,000-acre hunting club. It’s not that he didn’t want to kill a monster; Amar just decided to break away from the feed trees around which he had been seeing deer to check out what was going on in a thicket.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced that Fort Polk Wildlife Management Area will be closed to hunting from Oct. 30-31 due to military training operations.
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Bobby Taylor gave up hunting in the 1980s when all of the land on which he had chased deer for years was leased out.[…]
I have been hunting public land almost exclusively for over 20 years. These days most of my hunting is done by bow, but I still like to make an occasional rifle hunt when I get the opportunity.[…]
Well, we are approaching my favorite day of the year, Oct 1, and it looks like the first several days of bow season are going to be blessed with great weather.[…]
Most hunters would be happy just getting a shot at a Pope & Young buck, but Vicki Husted has not only gotten the shots: When she and husband Billy stepped into the ground blind on Oct. 5, she had three monsters on the wall that topped 150 P&Y points.[…]