Deer Hunting
Mature bucks not moving much, but rut around the corner
Seems like the deer movement/reports are mixed. I find this to be a tough time of year to see mature bucks, but I know what is right around the corner: the rut.[…]
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Waiting for the Deer
My Bible study lesson Sunday morning was about waiting. A generation of Americans has developed that does not like to wait for things – people want it right now, and they want it their way.[…]
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Swamp Monsters
O.K., answer me this: How many of those brochures in hotel lobbies in the French Quarter beckon you to embark on a charming tour of a “5-year-old pure-pine plantation?” Or a picturesque tour of a “10-year clear-cut timber tract?”[…]
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Thanksgiving hunt to remember
The Friday (Nov. 27) opener of the annual WMA managed hunts was great for the early morning hunt. It was a cold and foggy boat ride up the East Pearl River. One boat had already gone by the launch with no running lights; hope no one else was on the water with him.[…]
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Deer-hunting bloopers
My buddy Darren Cooper and I had painstakingly chosen the stand site to cut off a big buck that everyone in the club knew frequented a narrow strip of woods between a large field and the highway cutting through the lease.[…]
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Bottom Bucks
Water came early to Tensas Parish this year. Sloughs and drainage ditches that normally wouldn’t fill up until late December were already reaching their breaking points back in October.[…]
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All treat and no tricks for Minden hunter
On Halloween night in 1959, an event took place in LSU’s Tiger Stadium that gets more exciting each time you watch the grainy black-and-white video.[…]
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Tracking the Rut: Part II The Madness Begins
The buck hadn’t stopped for more than a few minutes in days, and was simply worn out. The 10-point had been busy chasing does and taking care of business, leaving little time for concern over its physical health.[…]
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Rut prep turns deer to natural foods
Every year I am amazed at how a deer seems to know what type of nutrition he needs at certain times of the year. It seems like flipping the light switch off: The deer just stopped eating rice bran and other high-protein feeds the first weekend of November from the Felicianas and north into Mississippi (Interestingly, it seems like the deer near the flooded river and south around Mount Pleasant and Baton Rouge are still eating the bran/protein).[…]
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Never take it for granted
I sit here on Thanksgiving morning giving thanks to my Lord Jesus Christ for all he has blessed me with: my precious family, friends, job and country.[…]
Deer Hunting
Call of the wild
I mentioned that I would be hunting the hardwood drains in Clinton during the primitive season because we had found a fairly decent acorn crop – white oaks, water oaks and cherry bark acorns.[…]
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”Saving a spot”
The Louisiana hunting pamphlet clearly states that even though it is now legal to leave your stand in the woods in a non-hunting position, this cannot be used to “save” a hunting spot.[…]
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Kelleher’s Korner
Baton Rouge’s Patrick Kelleher is a father, husband, bowhunter and (for those who know him) the luckiest guy in the world.[…]
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Moreland Matters
Dave Moreland holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in biology, and spent 30 years working with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. After serving 15 years in the field, Moreland became the state’s Deer Program manager in 1992.[…]
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Hunter rescued after fall from stand
Wildlife agents rescued a hunter in Pointe Coupee Parish Monday (Nov. 23) after an apparent tumble from a deer stand, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported.[…]
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What’s the deal?
Well, after a very good last couple of weeks of October, the deer movement has gone to close to non-existent. My hunting buddies from all over Louisiana and Mississippi and I were having great hunts from Oct.15 through around the first week of November, and all of a sudden it turned off like a light switch.[…]