From the piney woods of the north to the alluvial Mississippi River basin’s bottomland hardwoods to the coastal marshes — all across Louisiana there is a certain quietness that seems to take over in late winter. No longer do you hear the mufflers of four wheeler engines running in the woods, or the sound of a rifle shot bringing its result to you at the speed of sound.[…]
Doing the same things the same way at the same places day after day can become monotonous. Sometimes a break from the mundane routine and a change in scenery is good for the soul and can get your batteries recharged.[…]
We’ve all heard about the absent minded professor. You know, the one who scratches his pancakes while pouring syrup on his itching foot.[…]
Every duck hunter has his quirks, his ways, and the things he always does when he hunts. This is a guy who lives to duck hunt, can’t get enough and pounds it out till the last day of the season. He is very successful with his ways, and has been for the better part of his life, but yet he is open to listen to what other hunters do; he takes it in; thinks about it; and then decides to cast it aside or add to his arsenal.[…]
“Odyssey – an extended adventurous wandering.” Thus saith the dictionary in defining the word. For Kevin Breaux, a 42-year-old sugar cane farmer from Franklin, the odyssey he was on lasted four hunting seasons and reached its climax on Jan. 14 when the swamp monster buck he’d been after since 2007 finally dropped his guard.[…]
Ken Bordelon has certainly killed plenty of deer, but he had yet to score a real bruiser when he climbed into a ladder stand overlooking a food plot on the Avoyelles Parish farm he helps his father manage.[…]
Jared Hebert and 14-year-old daughter Lunden had an agreement when they headed to their East Baton Rouge Parish hunting club Christmas day: Lunden would be allowed to shoot a doe for her first deer, but there were stipulations attached to her killing a buck.[…]
Wiley Averett, 43, has a 230-acre lease near his house in Livingston Parish that he really enjoys hunting, but a few times a year, he gets struck by a case of wanderlust. That’s when he makes the drive from home to Red River Wildlife Management Area.[…]
If a waterfowl hunter happened to be stuffed in the cab of a pickup truck, blindfolded and driven to the Gueydan Civic Center back on Aug. 24, he would be liable to think he died and went to heaven. And he wouldn’t have had to go any farther than the parking lot.[…]
Mike Hymel takes his deer hunting serious, and the fact that he hunts public property just pushes him to look for every advantage he can find. So when he found a line of hookings on Dewey Wills Wildlife Management Area, he backed out and pulled out his secret weapon.[…]
Not only is there an animal out there that will spot your deer for you, but this animal will also vocalize to you telling you exactly where the deer are and when they are moving.[…]
In response to high customer demand, Hunter Safety System expanded the Ultra Lite harness line with the introduction of the Ultra Lite X-TREME. The new Ultra Lite X-TREME offers the same popular design as the Ultra Lite with a few added features.[…]
Ryan Riche’ had a trail-cam picture of a great buck from last August, and he had put his time in trying to ambush it. But it wasn’t until Dec. 27 that the 22-year-old finally got a look at the Avoyelles Parish deer.[…]
Kris Russell was duck hunting Dec. 26 on his father-in-law’s Tensas Parish property when he decided exactly where he’d deer hunt that afternoon.[…]
Randy Lee has spent countless hours over the past several decades convincing mallards to drop into shotgun range of hunters. […]
Russell Scarbrough got off work at 6 p.m., too late to actually do any hunting. But he went ahead and drove to the public tract of land he planned to hunt the next few days and slept in the truck.
The next morning, Scarbrough was up early and heading into the woods.
“I really had no clue where I was going to hunt,” he said.[…]