Deer Hunting
Matherne declared Trail Cam Contest monthly winner
Darren Matherne won the first round of the LouisianaSportsman.com Trail Cam Contest for his photo of a great velvet buck tearing up some bushes.[…]
Hunting
Deer Hunting
Bow opener full of excitement
We had a good time down at the Atchafalaya Delta WMA opening weekend. Beautiful, cool, clear, dry, breezy hunting conditions greeted us all.[…]
Deer Hunting
Huge 12-point falls in Madison Parish
Michael Hanlon, farmer and cotton consultant in Northeast Louisiana, and three business partners own a prized chunk of real estate in Madison Parish – 1,000 acres of WRP land that has become their hunting headquarters.[…]
Currents
No better month than the 10th one
If I ever find a lamp, rub it and a genie pops out, one of my wishes will be to rip June, July and August off the calendar. What do the three months have to offer?[…]
Hunting
Hunt Zone Signs
Developed for hunter safety, Hunt Zone Signs are a great way to inform other hunters, hikers, bikers, horseback riders, or anyone else sharing the woods, that you are hunting in the area.[…]
Hunting
God’A Grip
God’A Grip’s self-customizing gun grips enhance the comfort and feel of your favorite firearm or crossbow.[…]
Columns
Sighting in doesn’t have to be hard
Buck drove me crazy.
As anal as I am about my rifles, his idea of sighting in before deer season was to drive out on the pipeline at our lease, throw a gallon cooking oil can out, back off 60-75 yards, take a rest on his elbows, squint through his cheap scope and touch off a .30-06 round from his immensely popular (and notoriously inaccurate) semi-automatic rifle (he even had see-through mounts on the thing!) and bounce the can about 5 feet.[…]
Columns
Try to beat the odds in 2010
It’s all about the antlers’ was a statement made at the 2006 Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting in Baton Rouge. The evening’s discussion was on the use of antler restrictions (ARs) to produce older and bigger bucks.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Communication
Scent pheromones and their distinct odors are instinctively utilized by whitetails to convey a realm of communication related to dominant hierarchy and sexual interactions. […]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Sherburne’s youth lottery waterfowl hunt is nothing short of spectacular
Toward the end of the blind in a low voice, 13-year old Michael Price from Alexandria, gave a log drawn out, “Wowwww!” that quietly trailed off.[…]
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Waterfowl Wonderland
I could hear the zooming wings of greenwing and bluewing teal just above my head as they glided into our decoy set. Mallards roamed the water, quacking away and the pintails whistled.[…]
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How to Kill a Deer
Pelayo was up ahead, hunched over next to a little live oak that grew along the creek branch. He was staring at the ground and nodding. Then he started walking in a little circle, still focusing downward.[…]
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Mountain Men
Chris Davis had put in his time, scouting the rugged Tunica Hills to narrow down the options, and he had found what he hoped was the perfect set-up.[…]
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Cover: October 2010
If you can keep your deer herd from getting nervous, you’ll have much greater success this season.[…]
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Chillaxing Your Deer
There comes a time in everybody’s life when some big lesson finally makes sense. It’s as if the light bulb going off above our heads is surrounded by a hundred angels all singing halleluiah.[…]
News Breaker
Teal season below par, more ducks arrive with first major cool front
The dust and the feathers have settled following the 2010 Louisiana teal season, and it’s clear the numbers were down and hunters in many parts of the state had to work a little harder than they are accustomed to in order to fill limits.[…]