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Great White North
When it comes to Louisiana, I’m more biased than an NBA ref with a dozen Benjamins riding on the game he’s officiating.[…]
Hunting
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Deer Dynamics: Antler Growth
As the days become longer, the process of “photoperiod” takes hold — stimulating more hormonal growth for bucks. More available sunlight allows changes to unfold with a buck’s pituitary gland, producing hormones that significantly contribute to bone and tissue growth.[…]
Turkey Hunting
Ducote, ‘Killadaux’ win turkey contests
LouisianaSportsman.com users have crowned Annette Ducote and Brad Thibodaux as the winners of the 2010 turkey photo and video contest, and the hunters will be mailed Official Sportsman Gear and Primos Hunting Calls prize packs.[…]
News Breaker
Waterfowl breeding habitat in Canada receives recent boost
Water on most of Canada’s prairies wasn’t abundant a few short weeks ago. It is now. And while farmers and communities are dealing with the wet hand they have been dealt, ducks in some of the water-logged areas are likely going to benefit because of the moisture.[…]
Deer Hunting
19 bucks added to Louisiana Big Game Record Program during Marksvile QDMA event
The Central Louisiana Branch of the Quality Deer Management Association hosted its annual scoring event in Marksville last week, and once again proved why Avoyelles Parish is probably the top-producing big-buck parish in the state.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Early Summer Forage
Tend the food plots, manage the timber, check the pH and get rid of the weeds. We’ve all heard and know it.[…]
Columns
PT 709 Slim: a self-defense pistol worthy of the name
David George DeMersseman was 54 years old, an insurance executive and on a road trip. He was sitting in a Waffle House on a major thoroughfare next to an entrance/exit off Interstate 12 in my town, having an early breakfast or a late dinner — the newspapers didn’t specify.[…]
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Training protocol: Teaching a woman to shoot
Here’s a truth we’ve learned through hundreds of gun-training classes and thousands of students — call it the Hutchinson Dictum: Most guys buy the gun they want for their wife or girlfriend.[…]
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From the Taliban to Nutria
Remember in The Deerhunter when De Niro, after barbecuing the commie with the flamethrower then perforating him with his own AK-47, gets knocked down by a spate of explosions?[…]
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The Life of a Fawn
Spring gives way to warm days as the summer season nears. Pesky insects start to dominate the woodlots and open fields. For the young whitetails that survived the pursuit of predators, now their lives of growing into mature deer begin to unfold.[…]
Deer Hunting
Bowie Outfitters Bag A Buck contest highlights Louisiana deer potential
The 2nd Annual Bowie Outfitters Bag A Buck contest provided a glimpse into Louisiana’s big-buck potential, the former head state deer biologist said.[…]
Turkey Hunting
LouisianaSportsman.com’s ‘Undertaker’ kills, butchers possible state-record turkey
On Monday (April 12)evening I wanted to see if I could roost some birds. I brought my wife along. So at 7:15 p.m., we were sitting in a blown-down tree glassing the fields.[…]
Deer Hunting
Last call for Bowie Outfitters Bag A Buck contest
Hunters wanting to enter the Second Annual Bowie Outfitters Bag A Buck contest have until April 23 at 1 p.m. to have their deer scored at the Baton Rouge store.[…]
Hunting
Commission backs off on February deer hunting, moves LAAs forward
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission today backed away from extending the deer-hunting season in Areas 1 and 6 into February, but moved forward with the proposed “limited access areas” in four coastal wildlife management areas.[…]
News Breaker
Turkey photo and video contests begin
Registered users of LouisianaSportsman.com can win official Sportsman gear and Primos hunting equipment in the new Turkey Photo and Video Contests.
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Tax Day Turkeys
My story begins a week prior to the opening of the 2009 turkey season. I had not had the opportunity to scout and listen for gobbling activity on the small tract of land in East Feliciana Parish that I hunt, so the Friday before the youth weekend, I left Baton Rouge with the my cameras in hopes of hearing and photographing some turkeys.[…]