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Antlers & Beards
I was programmed as a hunter from the start, and the start for me has been some time ago. […]
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MIA: Where have all the duck experts gone?
Louisianasportsman.com is missing something this year.
An entire group of people who have dominated the posting board on our magazine’s website the last few winters have mysteriously disappeared.Where they have gone, no one can tell. […]
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Late Can Be Great
In a flooded pasture in northern Catahoula Parish, Dan Chason watched from the blind as a flight of six birds breezed in from the north. The ducks flapped in over the tops of the pine trees, banked into a light wind and seemed to lock in on the spread of decoys that Chason had conspicuously placed several days earlier. […]
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New Years’s Fireworks
I think the first time I ever noticed the abundance of doves during winter, I was duck hunting in the flooded rice fields of Northeast Louisiana. Adjacent to our waterhole was a dry field where row crops had grown earlier. […]
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On The Rebound
Clever soldiers who want to avoid work details keep their distance from superiors. “Out of sight, out of mind,” is the order for the troops who like their free time to remain free. […]
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Seeing Green on the Red
The boat blind lunged forward as we jumped up to pick out greenheaded targets in the decoying flock of mallards. […]
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Miss. expands list of primitive weapons
One of my all-time favorite movies is “Quigley Down Under.”In it, Tom Selleck plays a hard-bitten Texas cowpuncher with a knack for long-range shooting. […]
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Miss. expands list of primitive weapons
One of my all-time favorite movies is “Quigley Down Under.” […]
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Worth the Wait
Late December can be frustrating — even frightening — for a Louisiana deer hunter. I know because I’ve been there. […]
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White Christmas
Alligators have absolutely nothing to do with goose hunting. Nonetheless, it was during the commercial alligator season when my co-duck-oholic friend, Shane Wiggins, and I talked about hunting geese during the upcoming season. […]
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Kisatchie’s King
Some people dream of hunting every day of the season, but not Kisatchie’s Charles Boles. […]
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Duck Tactics for Bucks
To take an older, mature buck, you need to set up where he least expects you at a time when he least expects to see you. Leave no trail as you go into the woods or exit the woods. […]
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Aerial Acrobats
It is a half hour before sunup on a crisp November day in the deep woods. Migratory waterfowl hunting season is open, and it’s legal shooting time. […]
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Young Guns
Sarah Hebert had been in the woods since she was about 5 years old. She had been coached on the ways of hunting by her father, and she had spent time on the range. […]
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Now or Never
Light has barely begun to leak over the horizon when the hunters hear the first ducks hurtling past their blind. […]
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Free Bucks for All
I met the grizzled hunter at a taxidermy shop when he came in with two huge bucks. One had eight points with tall, heavy antlers. The other, a magnificent 12-pointer, didn’t have antlers quite as heavy, but it had a very wide rack and extremely long tines — much wider and longer than the 8 point’s. […]