Hunting deer on public land in Louisiana can be very rewarding. Whether you choose one of the wildlife management areas or a national wildlife refuges, you will have the opportunity to fill your doe and buck tags without having to put up with the expense of joining a private club or leasing land.[…]
Along the forest edge, a whitetail buck hesitates beneath the overhanging branches of a pine tree. Then with ease, the animal stretches its neck up toward a particular limb and begins to rub its mouth and forehead on the limb. Closing its eyelids, it resumes this behavior on the tree.[…]
Depending on the weather and, of course, the hunter turnout, Clear Creek Wildlife Management Area usually produces a decent harvest of deer each year. The whitetail deer at Clear Creek are not as large as their cousins at Jackson-Bienville and other Mississippi River Delta WMAs, but the area has produced some nice racks.[…]
Every deer hunter in Louisiana thinks his parish has the most notoriously nocturnal deer in the entire state.[…]
Louisiana’s public lands will surrender trophy bucks this season. Follow this issue’s tips to up the odds one will fall to you.[…]
Josh Chauvin was on a mission. He had paid his dues, and knew the small portion of Red River Wildlife Management Area like the back of his hand. Maybe even better.[…]
Due to military training exercises, the Peason Ridge Wildlife Management Area will be closed Oct. 30-31 for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries either-sex hunt.[…]
Hammond’s Brandon Amar really wasn’t after a big buck when he dropped off his buddy Saturday (Oct. 16) for a hunt on the 6,000-acre hunting club. It’s not that he didn’t want to kill a monster; Amar just decided to break away from the feed trees around which he had been seeing deer to check out what was going on in a thicket.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced that Fort Polk Wildlife Management Area will be closed to hunting from Oct. 30-31 due to military training operations.
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Bobby Taylor gave up hunting in the 1980s when all of the land on which he had chased deer for years was leased out.[…]
I have been hunting public land almost exclusively for over 20 years. These days most of my hunting is done by bow, but I still like to make an occasional rifle hunt when I get the opportunity.[…]
Well, we are approaching my favorite day of the year, Oct 1, and it looks like the first several days of bow season are going to be blessed with great weather.[…]
Most hunters would be happy just getting a shot at a Pope & Young buck, but Vicki Husted has not only gotten the shots: When she and husband Billy stepped into the ground blind on Oct. 5, she had three monsters on the wall that topped 150 P&Y points.[…]
Darren Matherne won the first round of the LouisianaSportsman.com Trail Cam Contest for his photo of a great velvet buck tearing up some bushes.[…]
We had a good time down at the Atchafalaya Delta WMA opening weekend. Beautiful, cool, clear, dry, breezy hunting conditions greeted us all.[…]
Michael Hanlon, farmer and cotton consultant in Northeast Louisiana, and three business partners own a prized chunk of real estate in Madison Parish – 1,000 acres of WRP land that has become their hunting headquarters.[…]