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More Deer of the Year

March 1, 2011 Andy Crawford

Bucks were still falling when the February issue of Louisiana Sportsman was sent to the printers, and there were some real monsters taken too late to be included in the annual Deer of the Year story.[…]

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Sherburne WMA bowhunt

February 16, 2011 Ricky Aucoin

Last weekend my buddy Jimmy Kyle and I took the 100-mile drive to Sherburne Wildlife Management Area to do some scouting for the end of this bow season. We spent a day and a half scouting, and really not finding much sign until we had gone fairly deep into the woods.[…]

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Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

January 31, 2011 Ricky Aucoin

The last two weeks, the deer have started moving again – somewhat anyway – at the Atchafalaya Delta WMA. I saw 14 deer in that time period, had a couple of “almost” shots, passed on a big cow-horned spike, but nothing too serious until late last week.[…]

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Deer of the Year

January 25, 2011 Andy Crawford

Louisiana hunters over the past few years have produced more and more big bucks, and the state’s top deer biologist said there seems to be a simple reason for the increase of monster deer.[…]

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Four-year odyssey results in 188-inch swamp buck

January 20, 2011 Glynn Harris

“Odyssey – an extended adventurous wandering.” Thus saith the dictionary in defining the word. For Kevin Breaux, a 42-year-old sugar cane farmer from Franklin, the odyssey he was on lasted four hunting seasons and reached its climax on Jan. 14 when the swamp monster buck he’d been after since 2007 finally dropped his guard.[…]