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Berzas’ Opening Day Squirrel Gravy Recipe
Berzas’ Opening Day Squirrel Gravy Recipe[…]
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Stop, look, listen before crossing the street or going in the dove field
Dove season opens Saturday and you just got off the phone with your hunting buddy. He has wrangled an invitation from a farmer friend to a dove field for the two of you, and he says the field is swarming with birds.[…]
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Alligator Tales: Stories from Louisiana’s alligator-filled past
Louisiana has long captured America’s imagination with its beautiful bayous, delicious cuisine and abundant wildlife. Television shows such as “Swamp People” have only increased that interest — particularly about Louisiana’s famous alligators.[…]
Bobby C's Outdoors
Gun safety a must when dove season opens
Last week, this writer recounted the best dove hunt of my life, when I limited out — 12 back then — in less than a box of shells in under an hour. But even better than my shooting was the organization of the hunt, which was held by a Delta landowner to benefit his son’s high school baseball team.[…]
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Dove-hunting shooting hours clarified
Information detailing dove-hunting shooting hours in the printed version of the 2012-13 Louisiana Hunting Regulations was wrong, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reported.
The shooting-hours note on page 28 of the printed regulations booklet indicates Sept. 3 is the exception to the standard rule that shooting can start a half hour before sunrise and continue until sunset.[…]
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Louisiana to participate in National Dove Hunter Survey
Hunters are encouraged to participate in an upcoming survey that will ask dove hunters from across the U.S. to share their experiences and opinions about dove hunting.[…]
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Evading coyotes harder than evading beagles
While walking through the woods listening to Brent Smith’s beagles running rabbits, I wondered if they ever actually caught one before a hunter got a shot on it.[…]
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Rabbit sign leads to more productive hunts
Hunters who have access to enough land for rabbit hunting could just let their dogs go and see what they jump, or they could do like Smith and focus on areas that show promising sign.[…]
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Best gun chokes, shot sizes
Woodcock hunting is a close-in type of upland bird hunting. Flushes are often directly under foot, particularly when pointing dogs are involved. Therefore, open chokes such as improved cylinder or even skeet are best utilized.[…]
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Plaquemine man arrested in connection with illegally obtained alligator tags
A 51-year-old Plaquemine man was arrested Oct. 14 and booked in connection with the alleged illegal acquisition of 150 alligator tags, the Louisiana Department Wildlife and Fisheries said.[…]
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Fall Frogging
Before Doc’s brother Clay returned to his exile in Atlanta, the wives decided we’d treat him to dinner — but at a fancy restaurant rather than at the usual raucous dinner party featuring the usual bull-red courtboullion, spawning sow-speck roe fritters and button-buck fajitas.[…]
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Tips to avoid dove baiting
Every September, you can take to the bank someone will get busted for shooting doves over a baited field. Not only is this illegal, but it also gives the entire hunting community a black eye.[…]
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Two Iota men cited for squirrel-hunting violations
Two Iota men were cited Sept. 1 for allegedly squirrel hunting in western Acadia Parish a month before the season opens, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today (Sept. 8). Squirrel season doesn’t open until Oct. 1.[…]
Breaking News
Dove fields open to public hunting for season opener
Public dove hunting will be available at four fields this Saturday (Sept. 3) for the dove-season opener, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.[…]
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LDWF seeking fields to lease for public dove hunts
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries wants to provide public hunting opportunities for the Sept. 3 opener of dove season, and is looking for lease to lease.[…]
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Donaldsonville gun club, three men fined $34,810 for baiting dove field
The Palo Alto Rod and Gun Club and three Donaldsonville men on June 24 pleaded guilty to Migratory Bird Treaty Act violations in Federal Middle District Court in Baton Rouge, and were ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Riedlinger to pay a total of $34,810 in fines and assessments for the violations, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported today (June 29).[…]