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Cover: January 2010
Ira Patureau thought outside the box to kill this post-rut buck in Assumption Parish.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer Hunting
LouisianaSportsman.com’s Guerin finishes out buck limit
Here is the whole story. Hunted yesterday evening (Dec. 27 on Mississippi lease). Saw a doe in my food plot on powerline. She stayed and then left and then later she or another doe guessing the same one reentered and fed until dark.[…]
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Balancing hunting and family
Hunting is not life. There I said it. Not exactly what you thought you would read in this article, huh? But it is absolutely true.[…]
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No Christmas buck for me
I mentioned last week that I thought the deer breeding in the Clinton area should be in full swing over the next two weeks. Last Wednesday I had a single buck move into the drain I was set up in.[…]
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Giles Island treat
Starting the back half of my six-day hunt at Giles Island, it rained all day. We got in a funnel stand at 3 pm due to a lightning delay. It was still raining the next day as we arrived at our climbing tree, and already there was a 17-inch, 3-yearr-old 8-pointer eating pecans in the road 80 yards ahead.[…]
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197-inch buck killed in West Baton Parish
Jeremy Horner has killed a lot of deer in his 35 years, and he’s usually chasing the animals hard. But this season he just hasn’t had time.[…]
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A hunting trip to remember
It was before sunrise on the morning of Sunday, December 13, 2009, when 6-year-old Cullen Edmonston looked at the cover of a hunting magazine and said, “Daddy, I’m going to kill one like that this morning.” Little did they know the statement was soon to be a true one.[…]
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Claiborne Parish delivers 216 7/8-inch monster
Steve Lewis of Haynesville took some time off during Thanksgiving week with an eye on spending some hours in his duck blind on Corney Lake in Claiborne Parish.[…]
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Giles Island deer running wild
I just finished my first of two three-day bowhunts in a row at Giles Island, and it was awesome. The deer started chasing on Dec. 9, and we’ve been seeing chasing activity every day even in the terrible weather.[…]
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Dealing with pressured WMAs
One of the biggest complaints about hunting public land is that there is too much pressure from other hunters. At times, this can be true depending on the WMA and the season.[…]
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Vernon Parish produces monster 14-point
Leesville’s Kade Mitchell is known for filling his six-deer limit each hunting season, but he decided it was time to focus when he arrived home from a work trip in October and saw pictures of a big buck on his lease.[…]
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Muzzy 85-grain Phantom-MX
Muzzy built the compact and aerodynamic 100-grain Phantom-MX for hunters wanting a traditional style with superior penetration, and it delivered. Now, Muzzy has designed a lighter, faster broadhead option – the new 85-grain Phantom-MX, which features the same unbeatable and superior flight as its larger relative.[…]
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Clinton area starting to heat up
After sending in my blog last Monday, I headed to Clinton to help the wildlife crew with a project. I had plans to make an evening hunt, but the project work dragged on until about 4 p.m.[…]
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Denham Springs man accused of stealing trail cams to stop hunting
A Denham Springs man has been arrested for stealing a Livingston Parish landowner’s trail cameras, allegedly in an attemp to stop hunting, WAFB reported on Friday.[…]
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The big one that got away
I missed the last three weeks of bow season due to an old ruptured disc in my neck and the pain it has been giving me. But I was finally able to get out a last week and almost had good one.[…]
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Angola guard pops 187-inch 15-pointer
Ray Vitorrio isn’t a big-time deer hunter. Not by a long shot. The Louisiana State Penitentiary colonel freely admits that.[…]