Dr. Bric Langford is a chiropractor with his practice in Jasper, Texas, who grew up in Haynesville hunting, fishing and playing sports with buddies Tyler Lewis and Collin Merritt. […]
Tyler Lewis knew where he was going to be sitting come daylight on Saturday morning (Nov. 3). After an evening meal with two life-long friends, Collin Merritt and Bric Langford, Lewis voiced a desire that within 24 hours would prove to be prophetic.[…]
Collin Merritt, Tyler Lewis and Bric Langford grew up together around Haynesville, hunting and fishing and playing football together all their lives.[…]
Bernice’s Daniel Colvin knew the 8-point his trail camera had revealed was a brute. He just didn’t know how big it really was until he laid his hands on the rack once the buck was on the ground Monday afternoon (Oct. 29).
Tape still had to be stretched on the antlers, but several observers say the rack should top out in the 150 class — quite a score for an 8 point.
“It’s for sure the biggest buck I ever saw in Corney Bottom,” Colvin said.[…]
To paraphrase a famous quote: “Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you.”
In Mitch Seitz’s case, the “something” was a 14-point buck that came within feet of his tree stand Saturday (Oct. 27) during a Barksdale Air Force Base hunt.[…]
What’s in a name?
Well, if you’re Hunter Simoneaux, quite a bit, apparently. He’s been hunting deer since he was 6 years old. And now, as part of a group of friends and family that hunts on 1,100 acres just north of Alexandria, he prides himself on doing everything by the book, and then some.[…]
Ruston insurance agent, Dan Preaus, is serious about his deer hunting. This time last year, Preaus was featured in Louisiana Sportsman with a story about his conquest of a 12-point buck he arrowed on family property on October 23. That buck scored 147 4/8 inches.[…]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
That’s definitely the case for Johnny Gallion, who for the better part of two months, had been spotting a 10-point buck on a trail camera he set up on a small tract of land he hunts near Leesville.[…]
We all should have camp work weekends like Justin Moran.[…]
Sometimes nothing goes your way when you hit the woods, but then there are the times when everything just falls into place.[…]
Teddy Roussel is good to his fiancé. Really good.[…]
When Melinda Yocum surprised her husband Rex with a new bow for Christmas three years ago, he was hopeful it would perform better than his previous outfit.[…]
Thirty-nine-year old Todd Glorioso is a firm believer in using estrous doe scent, and Code Blue is his go-to favorite. He also believes that if there is little for deer to eat on a parcel of ground, they’ll readily scarf down the bucketsful of acorns he places there for them.[…]
Alexandria farmer Peter DeKeyzer was puzzled when his son 10-year-old Jack told him which stand he wanted to hunt on the afternoon of Jan. 2.[…]
When 12-year-old Thomas Artall finally realized that the deer whose rear he was looking at sported a big rack on the other end, a couple of problems quickly became evident.[…]
There are 1,600 sprawling acres on the Sullivan family farm in Madison Parish, but a special spot is off limits to everyone except Brenda Sullivan. And while sitting in a ground blind in her private hunting grounds on Oct. 20, Sullivan sent an arrow into the vitals of a huge 275-pound 12-point buck that walked up to within 15 yards of her blind.
“We’d seen this buck on our trail cameras when he was in velvet, and I knew he was a good one,” Sullivan said. “I couldn’t really tell just how big but knew his rack was tall and wide.”[…]