Hackney and ‘Sue Bob’ track down tree rats tonight at 6:30 on CST
Sportsman TV host Greg Hackney is never at a loss for words, but his co-host this week was: Sue Bob, a top-notch squirrel dog, just kept her nose on the ground and tracked down bushy tails for tonight’s brand new episode.[…]
“The target area you’re aiming for is about the size of a grape fruit,” Lafleur said. For that reason, shot placement is everything. A heart and lung shot is ideal, but one that disables the bird due with an arrow in the body so that it can’t fly away is also lethal.[…]
Yes, that’s right — for the first time in the lifetime of this author there is no turkey hunting in Louisiana in March. Of course, I grew up hunting in North Louisiana in the 60s and there were no turkeys to hunt in those days. LDWF was trying to restock birds in that area but for various reasons, the restocking effort was not working.[…]
Venice, Louisiana is one of the top filming destinations for Sportsman TV. Over the last 5 seasons, Greg Hackney and Producer Jared Serigne have a filmed a number of episodes in Venice ranging from bass fishing, duck hunting, redfish, red snapper and tuna fishing.[…]
Seven men in two separate cases pleaded guilty to migratory game bird violations earlier this month for shooting over the limit of ducks on Oak Island in New Orleans East and in Venice, according to a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
In the past several years, I’ve became hooked on a very difficult style of hunting: stalking with traditional bows on public land. I’ve taken a dozen pigs and a couple deer this way, but this season ended with a most spectacular surprise.[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Thursday approved a declaration of emergency to cease supplemental deer feeding in East Carroll, Madison and Tensas parishes effective Monday, March 5.[…]
Harmon Carson will tell you that turkeys are smarter than you think. He should know — he’s been chasing them from Louisiana to Texas since he was in high school. […]
We have a love/hate relationship with our turkey shotguns — if they knock over a big gobbler on an improbable shot, we love them and take the credit. But if the gobbler runs off after what should have been an easy kill, it’s always the gun’s fault.[…]
As I write this, another year’s deer season has come to a close. For many hunters, this is a sad time, as thoughts of a long offseason become reality. […]
Whether you’re walking through open fields pursuing birds, stomping through thickets after rabbits, or hiking in to your turkey or deer blind, you need footwear that won’t let you down, no matter what the conditions are.[…]
In the late 70s, some of the western states began establishing reward programs for information leading to the arrest of fish and wildlife violators. One of the original names for the programs was Operation Game Thief (OGT).[…]
Troy Borill has been a man on a mission for about the last five years or so, actively hunting predators in Acadia Parish that impact deer and their habitat like wild hogs, coyotes and bobcats. […]
By the time you are reading this, unless you live in the extreme southern part of Mississippi, the 2017-2018 deer season will already be “in the books,” as they say.[…]
If you’ve got any issues with the proposed hunting seasons for the next couple of years, as well as WMA hunting regs, turkey season rules and migratory board season dates and rules, now’s the time to speak up.[…]
There are no officially recognized breeds of squirrel dogs. It seems that members of every breed, from pit bull terriers to Chihuahuas, can be trained to tree squirrels.[…]