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Deer Season Primer

Summer is here, and likely as not, you don’t wake up these warm and muggy mornings with deer hunting on your mind. Turkey season drained you back in March and April, and the novelty of hunting squirrels in May during Louisiana’s new spring season has long since passed.[…]

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Shed Heads

Hunting shed antlers has become a popular activity in the South over the last few years.Practiced by hunters and non-hunters alike, this newfound sport produces many rewards beyond simply adding another big shed to a growing collection of deer antlers.[…]

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Tensas Tango

The deer wasn’t supposed to be there. Robert Chenier was sitting a couple hundred yards from where the buck was expected to be, not because he didn’t want to kill a big deer. No, it was because one of his buddies had claimed the prime spot.[…]

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Rack-Filled and Rugged

Robert Duncan grew up hunting the piney woods of Washington Parish. He can vividly recall traipsing through the woods around Ben’s Creek west of Bogalusa.
However, his weren’t the only set of feet slogging through the creek bottom.[…]

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T-Minus-8 Bucks

“When a big, old buck shows up, you’ve got about 8 seconds to get on him and pull the trigger.” I first heard that theory amidst the smoky, chilly air around a deer camp fire pit.[…]

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Welcome Crowds

Aaron Toups had laid claim to the stretch of woods around him by nestling in his tree stand long before the first rays of dawn vaulted over the horizon, but he saw something that would make most hunters cringe as the forests around him brightened.[…]

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Big, Bad Bodcau

Bobby Taylor gave up hunting in the 1980s when all of the land on which he had chased deer for years was leased out. “We used to be able to hunt wherever we wanted,” the Haughton hunter said.[…]