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Bayou Buckmaster
For many outdoor enthusiasts, deer hunting is a hobby.[…]
Deer Hunting
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One-Shot Stop
Death is inevitable. Like a cloud, it hangs ever on the horizon. On this sea of life, all living things are like little boats being swept along by a great current, its force irresistible and its flow unimpeded.[…]
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Bowhunting Broadway
Hunters who go after deer with bow and arrow agree there is nothing like it. A gun hunter can sit comfortably in a padded swivel chair out of the weather in a covered box stand wearing jeans and sneakers, snacking on chips and soda pop, listening to a football game on his portable radio — and he has a legitimate chance of putting the crosshairs on a buck at 200 yards.[…]
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Cover: August 2006-Hunting
A little planning now goes a long way during hunting season.[…]
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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.[…]
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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.[…]