As a general rule, sitting on a deer stand with a stiff wind blowing is not the best scenario when you want to up your odds of bagging a deer. Sometimes you definitely have to make adjustments to counter the wind.[…]
About 4:30 in the afternoon on Jan. 12, Donovan Wiley and a big Tensas Parish 13-point started an intense 15-minute game of cat and mouse that yielded an amazing adrenaline rush — and eventually a 172-inch trophy buck of a lifetime.[…]
When the biggest Concordia Parish buck that Craig Hawn had ever seen stepped out at 150 yards last month, he decided to use a little reverse psychology in an attempt to make the shot easier for his 10-year-old son, Morgan.[…]
Acting on a tip, enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited a Newellton man this weekend for harvesting 11 deer this season, including nine antlered deer from October through January.[…]
Christopher Gentry, known as “CGentry” on the LouisianaSportsman.com forum earned the December win in the Nikon Big Buck Contest with this photo of his beautiful Avoyelles Parish buck.[…]
It’s the last full month of the 2015-16 hunting season and you’re tired. You’ve spent untold hours sitting stands since the season opened back in October, and now you’re finding it difficult to keep your passion.[…]
While he has utmost confidence in 33 Point Buck and the Vapor Maker delivery system, avid archery hunter Barrett Van Cleave realizes the necessity of taking scent containment to the extreme.[…]
Monroe’s Blake Jones considers himself fortunate to get to hunt on a particular farm in Caldwell Parish — his brother’s father-in-law owns a farm near Columbia with mostly bottomland and CRP that is butted up to the Lafourche Canal.[…]
Dr. Jeffrey Anderson and his father were riding in their Ranger checking on cattle early last month on family property bordering Bayou Pierre in Natchitoches Parish when they jumped up a very odd-looking buck that neither one of them had ever seen before.[…]
Lauren Hall, a senior in pharmacy school at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, is set to graduate this May. […]
Jacob Martin has taken a few deer in his 12 years, but nothing that compares with the big 9-point buck he downed in Madison Parish on Dec. 30 during a Youth Hunt on the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge.[…]
Noah Mason turned 14 on Dec. 15, but he received his best gift four days later when he dropped a 180-class Russell Sage Wildlife Management Area 15-point while hunting with his father.[…]
Four deer seasons ago — on January 2, 2012 to be exact — Melissa Winkler was alone in her box stand in Ouachita Parish when a big buck stepped out. […]
Although deer season is currently closed now in the lower Atchafalaya Basin from Interstate 10 south to U.S. Highway 90 because of high water, word that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has ditched plans to open the Morganza Spillway for now is good news for the deer herd located there.[…]
When Jeremy Landry’s 9-year-old daughter unexpectedly expressed interest in joining him in the stand for a deer hunt, he decided on a high tech approach to get her ready for the big day.[…]
For some reason Mother Nature does not seem too happy with us hunters this year. September rolls around, the early seasons open for migratory birds, temperatures were hot and the ground was dry, very dry.[…]