Deer Hunting
Southeast Louisiana hunters make kids the focus on Mississippi deer lease
If the sport of hunting dies from lack of participation by today’s youth, it won’t be because of the Last Chance Hunting Club.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer of the Year
Back-up plan results in freakish Winn Parish ‘cactus buck’
Jack Fluitt sometimes has a back-up plan when it comes to deer hunting. Fortunately for Fluitt, a pipeline welder who lives near Tannehill in Winn Parish, he put his back-up plan to work the Thursday morning (Nov. 3) – and that plan allowed him to nail a freakish 17-point “cactus buck.”[…]
Deer Hunting
LWFC changes primitive-weapons season to bucks-only for Attakapas WMA
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission today (Nov. 3) changed muzzleloader regulations for Attakapas Wildlife Management Area, making it legal to shoot bucks only during the special season, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
Deer Hunting
Monthly contest winners announced
Winners in three the Nikon Big Buck Photo, Trail Cam and Deer Video contests have been selected, with each winner earning a great Sportsman Gear package.[…]
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Escape the dark side
The key to a successful deer program is to keep the habitat productive for deer throughout the entire year, not just during the hunting season. In fact, when the hunting season comes around, deer growth and development is over, and it is now harvest time.[…]
Deer Hunting
Voting begins in Big Buck, Trail Cam contests
Voting has begun in the Nikon Big Buck and Trail Cam contests in which LouisianaSportsman.com users name the monthly winners.[…]
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The Old Traditional Deer Rub
The rut is close. By procreative instinct, a mature hefty 8-pointer traverses the land.[…]
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Union Work
Union Parish is over 561,000 acres in size and is 85 percent forested. For the past three years, it has ranked first in total whitetail harvest, according to the statewide reporting system.[…]
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Effective stand placement helps hunter bag a bruiser
When Allen Morgan of Brookhaven, Miss., happened upon a larger-than-usual scrape on his hunting property in Lawrence County, he instinctively knew that the buck that made the scrape was anything but ordinary.[…]
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Ground Check
Before Hurricane Katrina, Washington Parish deer hunter Alan Williams hunted Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge from the ground because he wanted to. Now, more than six years after the historic hurricane, he hunts from the ground because he has to.[…]
Deer Hunting
Low-power scope setting best for Bogue Chitto
Because hunting the ground floor of the Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge can put you face to face with deer or hogs, it’s important to consider a few small details that can put the odds of a close encounter more in your favor.[…]
Deer Hunting
Aim to drop a deer in its tracks
If the Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge sounds like a place where it would be hard to track a shot deer or hog, you are correct.[…]
Deer Hunting
Lots of ways to win in 2012 Louisiana Sportsmen’s Show Big Buck Contest
If you’re a deer hunter, odds are you’ll be targeting a buck most of the times you step into the woods this fall and winter.[…]
Deer Hunting
Chief Ouachita: Make the most of hunting this wildlife management area
Troy Hibbard wanted to be duck hunting the morning of Dec. 20, 1997, but he couldn’t put incredible deer sign he had found on the edge of Ouachita Wildlife Management Area out of his mind.[…]
Deer of the Year
Text, ‘canned’ bleat result in Peason Ridge trophy
Texting usually isn’t considered a vital hunting technique – but don’t tell that to Leesville’s Charles Moore who used his cell phone to ask a buddy to bleat so a hung-up deer would come out of a thicket during a hunt on Peason Ridge Wildlife Management Area.[…]
Deer Hunting
Hits and misses from the opening week of bow season
October 1 found me up in a ladder stand in the mosquito-infested darkness before daylight at the Atchafalaya Delta WMA. […]