Field Notes
Top 6 squirrel-hunting tips
Keith LaCaze is a lifelong hunter, and he chases pretty much everything that lives in the wild. Here are his top 5 tips for squirrel hunting.[…]
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Zero your scope — properly
When you open up that Christmas present and find a brand-new scope for your rifle, what is your first thought?[…]
Deer Hunting
Digital scouting equals scent-free scouting
Technology gives and takes. And each Louisiana hunter has to make a decision about how traditional or modern they want to hunt.[…]
Deer Hunting
Be prepared to make memories
Alissa Laborde believes the trick to making a memorable hunt is to have everything ready and within reach. When she settled into her stand she made sure all of her gear was placed just right.[…]
Deer Hunting
Daily use permit required at Russell Sage WMA
Gun. Hunter orange. Shells. Camo. Let’s see, what are we forgetting?[…]
Deer Hunting
Russell Sage WMA has unique location
A river runs through it. Well, sort of.
It’s a concrete river, four lanes wide. It ebbs and flows with 18-wheelers and automobiles heading east and west across the top of Louisiana.[…]
Deer Hunting
How Russell Sage WMA began
The January 1961 announcement of the first state-owned game reserve in the Louisiana Conservationist was pretty simple and modest.[…]
Deer Hunting
Break deer-cam dependency
From his experiences on the road and at home, Chad Wall has come to realize that most hunters have lost the ability to read deer sign put down by nature. […]
Deer Hunting
Area 4 Shoot-Don’t Shoot Quiz
The first set of photos for you to consider shooting or passing over come from Area 4 — East Feliciana Parish.[…]
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Area 6
The next four photographs are from a tract of land along the Mississippi River in East Baton Rouge Parish. The habitat is bottomland hardwoods, but the oak component is lacking.[…]
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Area 2
The last set of photographs is from Area 2 in Desoto Parish. The habitat is mixed pine/hardwood, with no agriculture but some winter pastures for cattle and lots of oil and gas pipelines that create a lot of edge.[…]
Deer Hunting
Top 10 tips for tracking marsh deer
1. Slow down — When trailing a deer in the marsh, you should never be in a hurry. Instead, take a deep breath and be prepared to stay longer than hunters who hunt hard-ground upland regions.
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Deer of the Year
Zachary hunter drills 200-inch Mississippi monster
Lloyd Dempster has had an amazing run of Magnolia State bucks this fall at the lease he hunts in Claiborne County, Miss.[…]
Deer Hunting
It was a November to remember at Atchafalaya Delta WMA
November was a special month down at the Atchafalaya Delta WMA. […]
Deer Hunting
MSU’s ‘Deer Hunt’ app useful from the stand
Instead of just playing Angry Birds or Scrabble from the box stand, your smartphone can actually be used for hunting purposes, like recording deer sightings and even estimating Boone & Crockett measurements.[…]
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Is your deer hunting hot?
September seemed to be as hot as August was; the weatherman kept talking about the unseasonably warm weather, with temperatures in the 90s when the heat index was considered.[…]