After three years of implementing food plots to attract deer, these “Postage Stamp Plots” featured in the August 2009 and 2010 issues of Louisiana Sportsman may finally become the tools that not only attract deer, but holds them on my property as well.[…]
A white-tailed buck leaves his bedding site in a stand of small pines. Instead of heading to the clover plot, he scales up a small ridge to seek out what is beneath the trees.[…]
There is a place down at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River known to many locals as “The Delta.” This is not your average hardwood, highland hunting grounds. This place is totally different.[…]
Where does the time go? It doesn’t seem like a year has passed since I first wrote about the postage-stamp plots that Louisiana Sportsman editor Todd Masson and I began to keep back in 2008.[…]
Research indicates that no single supplemental forage variety can meet all the needs of whitetailed deer year-round. Additionally, there is no one plant suited for every soil type and growing condition found across the state.[…]
So is it summer time, or is it that time of year just before fall? You know, the most important time of the year – bow season![…]
Brad Ripp is the owner of Louisiana Outdoors, an archery pro shop in Pearl River, La. […]
Check the calendar; deer season is right around the corner. Follow this guide to make this season the best ever.[…]
As the days become longer, the process of “photoperiod” takes hold — stimulating more hormonal growth for bucks. More available sunlight allows changes to unfold with a buck’s pituitary gland, producing hormones that significantly contribute to bone and tissue growth.[…]
The Central Louisiana Branch of the Quality Deer Management Association hosted its annual scoring event in Marksville last week, and once again proved why Avoyelles Parish is probably the top-producing big-buck parish in the state.[…]
Tend the food plots, manage the timber, check the pH and get rid of the weeds. We’ve all heard and know it.[…]
Spring gives way to warm days as the summer season nears. Pesky insects start to dominate the woodlots and open fields. For the young whitetails that survived the pursuit of predators, now their lives of growing into mature deer begin to unfold.[…]
The 2nd Annual Bowie Outfitters Bag A Buck contest provided a glimpse into Louisiana’s big-buck potential, the former head state deer biologist said.[…]
Hunters wanting to enter the Second Annual Bowie Outfitters Bag A Buck contest have until April 23 at 1 p.m. to have their deer scored at the Baton Rouge store.[…]
With stealth, a lone coyote moves through the woodlot, its nose to the ground. Periodically, the canine stops and visually scans the timber.In the near distance is a female deer.[…]
Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission members are proposing a major change in the deer-season structure for Area 1 hunters, and want your input.[…]