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Focus Factor
If you don’t want to invest in good gear, don’t ever borrow it. Don’t even let your grubby little fingers ever touch it. […]
Deer Hunting
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Monster Mash
This hunting season was the first in several years that featured consistently cool weather, and Louisiana’s sportsmen responded by hitting the woods with dreams of big bucks dancing in their heads. […]
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Cover: February 2006-Hunting
You won’t believe the quality of the deer Bayou State hunters harvested this year. […]
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Stinking it up
Passing up a few does during the Area 7 still and early muzzleloader hunts, and later missing a respectable 6-point during the late muzzleloader season, I began second-guessing myself. […]
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Worth the Wait
Late December can be frustrating — even frightening — for a Louisiana deer hunter. I know because I’ve been there. […]
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Kisatchie’s King
Some people dream of hunting every day of the season, but not Kisatchie’s Charles Boles. […]
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Duck Tactics for Bucks
To take an older, mature buck, you need to set up where he least expects you at a time when he least expects to see you. Leave no trail as you go into the woods or exit the woods. […]
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Young Guns
Sarah Hebert had been in the woods since she was about 5 years old. She had been coached on the ways of hunting by her father, and she had spent time on the range. […]
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Free Bucks for All
I met the grizzled hunter at a taxidermy shop when he came in with two huge bucks. One had eight points with tall, heavy antlers. The other, a magnificent 12-pointer, didn’t have antlers quite as heavy, but it had a very wide rack and extremely long tines — much wider and longer than the 8 point’s. […]
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Emotions in Motion
David Hale has used motion-sensor cameras for years. […]
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Bucks Look Up
I could see halfway down ivory antlers that looked wide and heavy moving above the gallberry bushes. I stood quietly, clicked my mechanical release onto the string of my bow and prepared to draw. […]
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Black Gold
Gilbert’s James McMurray was getting worried. Deer season was ending and his freezer was sorely lacking packages marked “venison” to carry his family through the months ahead. […]
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.17 HMR — New bang on the block
The snake was a moccasin, swimming downstream in what was called the “old” river — a channel off the Amite, running behind an elongated island. We were in Port Vincent on Butch Croom’s land. The lazy waters of the old river channel flowed behind the land with absolutely no discernible water movement. […]
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The Cousin’s Tale
He missed the really exciting times in the swamp.
By the time he got out of the Army, back from Vietnam, and back in college, working on his graduate degree, it was several years after all the night hunting and control shooting had occurred. […]
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The Thrill’s in the Kill
Something flickers, and my head jerks left. I tense up. My eyes focus. These are predator eyes, quick to spot movement. And they face forward, like the lion, leopard, falcon and wolf, the better to stalk and ambush prey. […]
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Keep Your Powder Dry
I admit I was pumped. The prospect of taking a deer with my muzzleloader on video set pretty well with me.
I was hunting with good friend Luke Lewis on a hunting lease that is adjacent to Jackson-Bienville Wildlife Management Area south of Ruston. Lewis, a wildlife biologist, planned to video me taking a deer on video, and was all set to preserve my special moment for my grandchildren to one day enjoy.
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