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Creeping Cocodrie-Style
The red was clearly visible, relaxing just on the edge of a marshy point of grass. […]
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Conference highlights new gun products
I love trade shows in the outdoor industry. Anytime you get to go to a big display of manufacturers’ offerings to hunting, fishing, boating and camping folks, it’s like Christmas for us big guys. […]
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It’s Now or Never
A spectral shape darted across the shadowy bottom, disappearing behind a fallen treetop. […]
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2004 Turkey Forecast
Paul Ferrell had several good turkey hunts last year, but one stood out above the rest and will be forever etched in his memory. […]
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Don’t sit, Hunt!
“Look at ’EM ALL!” Pelayo whacked my shoulder and pointed through the passenger window. I turned, and my eyes bugged. […]
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Cover: January 2004
Late-season duck action can be great or it can be horrible. This issue tells you how to put the odds in your favor for the former. […]
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Wild Duck Chase
The call of the wild. To Jack London, it meant wolf howls echoing through snowy valleys of the Alaska wilderness. To me, it sounds like geese — that distant honking that always jerks your gaze skyward and sets your neck craning around, searching for the source. […]
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Unintended Outcome
It was several years ago when Wild Turkey Hunting Club decided to move from an anything-goes buck management plan to a requirement that bucks have at least 6 points before members could shoot them. […]
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Swampers in the Marsh
Although large numbers of rabbits live in marshes, you may have problems hunting marsh rabbits. But 73-year-old Melvyn Verdin of Barataria has made it his life’s passion. […]
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Late is Great
In the latter part of the Louisiana duck season, times can be awesome and they can be frustrating. Just when you think you figured out a late-season pattern, it changes and then it does again the following season. […]
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Fronts: Blessings or Curse?
Forty-four-degree temperature drops are normally reserved for places like Canada’s Northwest Territory. […]
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From Bambi to Bullwinkle
Michael Fazende and his 11-year-old son David settled into the box stand Nov. 1 hoping to get a jump on the other members on their 1,200-acre West Feliciana lease. […]
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Cover: December 2003
When’s the best chance for you to kill that big buck? We’ve got the dates narrowed down. […]
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Hunt like a Gypsy
The DU banquet was PACKED to suffocation. […]
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Thrill Seekers 101
There’s a certain smell that the rest of the world finds repulsive, but to a duck hunter it’s sweeter than a spring orchid. […]