Just because the numbers of ducks bagged are down in the marsh, it doesn’t always mean you won’t get your birds. Here we are in the latter part of November wondering where the big gangs of gadwalls and teal are, and I’ll be the first to admit that the numbers are not what they should be.[…]
The first split has come and gone already. My personal totals for eight hunts with guests was 103 ducks. Not bad at all.[…]
I missed the last three weeks of bow season due to an old ruptured disc in my neck and the pain it has been giving me. But I was finally able to get out a last week and almost had good one.[…]
Ray Vitorrio isn’t a big-time deer hunter. Not by a long shot. The Louisiana State Penitentiary colonel freely admits that.[…]
A portion of Muddy Bayou Road and Big Ridge Road have been temporarily closed to automobile traffic on the Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area in LaSalle Parish, effective Dec. 7.[…]
Despite warm conditions and relatively few birds just prior to the season, Louisiana duck hunters remained hopeful that they’d get a good push of winter weather in mid-November as the season kicked off.[…]
Seems like the deer movement/reports are mixed. I find this to be a tough time of year to see mature bucks, but I know what is right around the corner: the rut.[…]
I asked for a strong cold front, and I got it. I asked for some wind, and I got it. I guess I forgot to ask for ducks![…]
My Bible study lesson Sunday morning was about waiting. A generation of Americans has developed that does not like to wait for things – people want it right now, and they want it their way.[…]
At the end of day six, when the good Lord passed a final glance over all of his creation, a wink and a smile must have went out to the diminutive woodcock.[…]
O.K., answer me this: How many of those brochures in hotel lobbies in the French Quarter beckon you to embark on a charming tour of a “5-year-old pure-pine plantation?” Or a picturesque tour of a “10-year clear-cut timber tract?”[…]
The Friday (Nov. 27) opener of the annual WMA managed hunts was great for the early morning hunt. It was a cold and foggy boat ride up the East Pearl River. One boat had already gone by the launch with no running lights; hope no one else was on the water with him.[…]
What exactly are those big bucks doing during the rutting phase? Find out in this issue.[…]
My buddy Darren Cooper and I had painstakingly chosen the stand site to cut off a big buck that everyone in the club knew frequented a narrow strip of woods between a large field and the highway cutting through the lease.[…]
I remember the first Ruger 10-22 carbine I came across. Home on leave from the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, N.C., in the early 1970s, I took my father’s brand-new Ruger .22 rifle to my grandparents’ dairy farm in Tangipahoa Parish.[…]
Water came early to Tensas Parish this year. Sloughs and drainage ditches that normally wouldn’t fill up until late December were already reaching their breaking points back in October.[…]