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Cover: September 2010
This year, some public tracts are packed with game, while others are just packed with hunters. Find out where you should hunt in this year’s WMA Forecast.[…]
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Deer Diary
A 30-minute deer hunting show on the Outdoor Channel probably shows about 15 minutes of the hunt and the rest of the time is spent promoting products that the hunters are using to bag this trophy whitetail.[…]
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Almost There!
Bow season is fast approaching. Follow this guide to make sure your stands are in the right places and your aim is absolutely perfect.[…]
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Feeding programs worth the money
Well, I hope you have been feeding your deer since January. Even though some places I hunt are small (less than 50 acres), some are large like my other place Lottie Wildlife Protection Association that is 20,000 acres.[…]
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Lime makes food plots more attractive
After three years of implementing food plots to attract deer, these “Postage Stamp Plots” featured in the August 2009 and 2010 issues of Louisiana Sportsman may finally become the tools that not only attract deer, but holds them on my property as well.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Hard Mast
A white-tailed buck leaves his bedding site in a stand of small pines. Instead of heading to the clover plot, he scales up a small ridge to seek out what is beneath the trees.[…]
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Delta Dawn
There is a place down at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River known to many locals as “The Delta.” This is not your average hardwood, highland hunting grounds. This place is totally different.[…]
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Postage-Stamp Plots, Year II
Where does the time go? It doesn’t seem like a year has passed since I first wrote about the postage-stamp plots that Louisiana Sportsman editor Todd Masson and I began to keep back in 2008.[…]
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Hunters who plant clovers tend to get lucky
Research indicates that no single supplemental forage variety can meet all the needs of whitetailed deer year-round. Additionally, there is no one plant suited for every soil type and growing condition found across the state.[…]
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Pre-season archery tips
So is it summer time, or is it that time of year just before fall? You know, the most important time of the year – bow season![…]
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Everything Archery
Brad Ripp is the owner of Louisiana Outdoors, an archery pro shop in Pearl River, La. […]
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Cover: August 2010
Check the calendar; deer season is right around the corner. Follow this guide to make this season the best ever.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Antler Growth
As the days become longer, the process of “photoperiod” takes hold — stimulating more hormonal growth for bucks. More available sunlight allows changes to unfold with a buck’s pituitary gland, producing hormones that significantly contribute to bone and tissue growth.[…]
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19 bucks added to Louisiana Big Game Record Program during Marksvile QDMA event
The Central Louisiana Branch of the Quality Deer Management Association hosted its annual scoring event in Marksville last week, and once again proved why Avoyelles Parish is probably the top-producing big-buck parish in the state.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Early Summer Forage
Tend the food plots, manage the timber, check the pH and get rid of the weeds. We’ve all heard and know it.[…]
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The Life of a Fawn
Spring gives way to warm days as the summer season nears. Pesky insects start to dominate the woodlots and open fields. For the young whitetails that survived the pursuit of predators, now their lives of growing into mature deer begin to unfold.[…]