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Turkey Talk
When I woke up this morning, I immediately noticed something was different. It was just starting to break daylight, and I hadn’t heard the first vehicle come down the old gravel road.[…]
Hunting
Deer of the Year
Providence leads Woodworth hunter to 175-inch Rapides Parish trophy buck
Thirty-nine-year old Todd Glorioso is a firm believer in using estrous doe scent, and Code Blue is his go-to favorite. He also believes that if there is little for deer to eat on a parcel of ground, they’ll readily scarf down the bucketsful of acorns he places there for them.[…]
Deer of the Year
Old stand yields trophy buck for 10-year-old hunter
Alexandria farmer Peter DeKeyzer was puzzled when his son 10-year-old Jack told him which stand he wanted to hunt on the afternoon of Jan. 2.[…]
Deer of the Year
Close encounter turns into 190-inch St. Landry Parish buck
When 12-year-old Thomas Artall finally realized that the deer whose rear he was looking at sported a big rack on the other end, a couple of problems quickly became evident.[…]
Deer Hunting
Department proposes either-sex deer tag, other hunting changes
If the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has its way, hunters across all of the state will see some type of alteration to their regulations for the 2012-13 season.[…]
Hunting
2011-12 Deer of the Year
The 2011-12 season kicked off in style when Cecilia’s Nick Thibodeaux arrowed a buck that green scored 160 inches Pope & Young while hunting on Sherburne Wildlife Management Area.
The kill turned out to be a hint of things to come, as monstrous bucks fell at a steady pace throughout the season. By the middle of December, more than a dozen deer scoring over 145 inches had been discovered by Louisiana Sportsman staff.[…]
News Breaker
Duck season ends strong for most, despite continued drought
Following a heralded first split, Louisiana duck hunters had high hopes for the second portion of the 2011-2012 waterfowl season.[…]
Columns
A new year in paradise
The magazine in the doctor’s office referred to Grand Teton National Park as a nature lover’s paradise. No doubt it is, especially in the winter when the game descends the mountains and walks around with the humans.[…]
Columns
In the rearview mirror
After 34 years with LDWF’s Division of Law Enforcement, I retired as assistant chief in April 2011, and returned home to Gardner. My career with LDWF provided the opportunity to work with dedicated fish and wildlife enforcement and management professionals, elected and appointed officials and hunters and fishermen throughout Louisiana.[…]
Other Hunting
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.[…]
Other Hunting
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.[…]
Columns
Trail camera scouting
This is my inaugural column in Mississippi Sportsman based around the general topic of trail-camera scouting. Each month I will share advice, tips, tactics, strategies and techniques regarding the use of digital scouting cameras that have proven useful to me over time in the successful pursuit of whitetail deer on my farm in west-central Mississippi.[…]
Contents
2012 Turkey Season Forecast
Nov. 19 was the opening day of the deer gun season in Area 1, and I was sitting in my big ladder stand overlooking a long planted strip at Camp David that I have named the Wildlife Tram.[…]
Hunting
Rabbit Wrap-Up
Brent Smith’s head was on a swivel as he knelt on the forest floor in a Washington Parish pine plantation. Ice Man, Law Man, Boss Man, Hawk, Sugar and Ruby had just recently passed on a line where Smith now took a knee.[…]
Sidebars
Check those pockets
Portable hunting blinds are a great asset to turkey hunters. They hide a hunter’s movement which very much helps when that gobbler hangs up and surveys the situation. I use them all the time for both turkey hunting and deer hunting.[…]
Sidebars
Should we shoot Jakes?
In Louisiana it is legal to shoot Jakes, the one-year-old gobblers. Some states do not allow this and regulate the harvest with a minimum beard length.[…]