The number of specklebelly geese wintering in Louisiana has fallen sharply — from 80 percent of the mid-contintenal population 20 years ago to an average of only 32 percent spending the winter within the Bayou State — and the state biologist are working to understand why through a new study of goose distribution.[…]
Every wildlife agent — and for that matter every law enforcement officer — has a vivid recollection of one case or another for various reasons. Such cases might stand out because of who the offender was, the severity of the offenses, it’s blatancy or the plain stupidity of it all.[…]
James Welch has had his eye on his dad’s .270 BAR since he was a kid, and this year, he’s making the most of his first full season finally getting to hunt with the rifle.[…]
James Welch has had his eye on his dad’s .270 BAR since he was a kid, and this year, he’s making the most of his first full season finally getting to hunt with the rifle.[…]
Let’s dissect some ways to best exploit rutting buck movement. Here are six easily identifiable phases or stages. […]
Unfortunately nowadays, we hear about schoolyard bullies all too often — a dominating buffoon who creates terror for some youngsters.[…]
Despite a well-timed cool front and brisk temperatures Saturday morning, many Louisiana duck hunters didn’t have the second-split opening weekend they were hoping for.[…]
Crowville’s Garry Ward has hunted the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge property since he was 6 years old — and at 58 he scored what has been green scored as the largest buck ever taken with a crossbow in Louisiana.[…]
Upland game birds in Louisiana is like saying white shrimp exist in Montana, but we hooked up with Covey Rise Lodge in Husser, LA to film this awesome hunt of quail, chukar, and pheasant.[…]
The second split of duck season opens in all three Louisiana zones on Saturday morning, and if the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ annual December survey is any indication, hunters might see more action based on the sheer number of birds in the state.[…]
Some people live and die by astro charts, swearing all they have to do to be more successful is time their trips to coincide with the listed major and minor feeding periods.[…]
Gary Frisbee hunts in western North Carolina’s high country near his home outside Hot Springs, where the deer herd isn’t particularly large. Still, the 28-year-old has killed plenty of big bucks in his first 15 years in the woods.[…]
Luke Milstead’s Dec. 7 hunt in Pride probably won’t ever be featured in a “how-to” video on tactics to take down a trophy whitetail. […]
We’ve spent all season perched in stands overlooking food plots and other well-known grazing areas, waiting for deer to get their feed on.[…]
Mike Brown, a retired electrician from Mount Olive in Bienville Parish, stayed in his stand longer than he normally would have on Tuesday, Dec. 15, hoping for a repeat of what he had seen just a few days earlier.[…]
This past Nov. 7 was pretty much a day most LSU football fans would rather forget.
The vaunted No. 2-ranked Tigers went into Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa with Heisman hopeful Leonard Fournette in tow, and got completely dominated by the one-loss Crimson Tide, 30-16. […]