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Sweet Treats – Find better deer hunting on oak flats
Acorns crunched under my boots as my buddy and I pressed farther into the heart of Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge.[…]
Hunting
Deer Hunting
Acorns held on longer during 2011-12 hunting season
If your plots grew tall last year because deer were busy eating acorns in the hardwoods, you’re not alone. Deer were difficult to hunt last season because they had so much hard mast in the woods to eat that they didn’t have to venture too far away from this secluded food source.[…]
Hunting
Condo Deck
The Condo Deck from Southern Outdoor Technologies is the perfect companion to any Sportsman’s Condo Blind.[…]
Deer Hunting
Attract more deer by planting hard mast trees
I got hooked on planting food plots several years ago, but it didn’t take too long for me to figure out that I needed something more than green patches if I hoped to create a property that provided something more than just a spot to shoot deer.[…]
Deer of the Year
Opelousas hunter walks up on 140-inch buck
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.[…]
Deer of the Year
Ruston insurance agent kills Union Parish buck scoring nearly 150 inches
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.[…]
Deer of the Year
Leesville meat hunter takes 147-inch trophy
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.[…]
Deer of the Year
‘Work weekend’ traded in for 145-inch Tunica Hills trophy
We all should have camp work weekends like Justin Moran.[…]
News Breaker
CORRECTION: Youth waterfowl hunters must be 15 years or younger
A story on the benefits of youth waterfowl hunting in the November 2012 issue of Louisiana Sportsman contained erroneous regulations for the ages of hunters eligible for youth hunts.[…]
Deer of the Year
East Baton Rouge doe hunt ends with 160-inch buck
Sometimes nothing goes your way when you hit the woods, but then there are the times when everything just falls into place.[…]
Deer of the Year
Tunica Hills doe hunt ends with 160-inch buck
Teddy Roussel is good to his fiancé. Really good.[…]
News Breaker
Two Vermilion Parish men guilty of goose-hunting violations
Two Vermilion Parish men admitted last week that they violated several goose-hunting regulations last January, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries reportd.[…]
Deer Hunting
Going coastal: Up your odds of deer-hunting in the marshes
The suspicious speck of white flickered some 200 yards away, resembling what might have been simply a bird flying or the cotton-like puff from the head of a cattail bursting its contents in the wind.[…]
Columns
All flashes are not equal
This past week I ran by the showroom of one of my favorite hunting-products companies that, fortunately for me, happens to be headquartered about a 20-minute drive from my home.[…]
Columns
Invest in safety this season
Well, October is here at last. It is the month we hunters look forward to like kids waiting for Christmas.[…]
Deer Hunting
Lake Charles man found dead in apparent hunting accident
A 60-year-old Lake Charles man was found dead in woods near Reeves in what the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries said was an apparent fatal hunting accident, the agency reported today (Oct. 19).[…]