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Cover: October 2007
Think you need a lease to kill big bucks? Bruce Mott doesn’t have one, and look at the size deer he kills.[…]
Hunting
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Drive to Thrive
You already know Eric Rachel. You know him if you ever made a bow and arrow out of a stick and some string. You know him if you ever shot at a bird with a BB gun.[…]
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A Deed for Ducks
As far back as 1929, men, who sipped the best bourbon around tables with white-linen cloths, wrote deeds. They sought to own the land for the mineral rights to the black gold deep in the soil below.[…]
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Taurus Judge perfect for self-defense
A sudden, loud THUMP! awakens you in the middle of the night. Something was knocked over in the front room, and it hit so hard, the walls shook.[…]
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Fountains of Youth
Have you seen all the recent commercials that are targeted toward helping older Americans recapture their youth? Whether hearing about an amazing new cream that’s supposed to get rid of any and all wrinkles for the women or a can of spray-on hair for the men, our society seems obsessed with staying young.[…]
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Where the big bucks live
Bruce Mott knew the buck was in the area because he and a buddy had seen all the signs the year before. “There were rubs as big as my leg,” Mott said. “We knew instantly it was a big deer.”[…]
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Better Late than Early
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. — Proverbs 11:2[…]
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October Smorgasbord
Quickly now, when you think “October,” what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Football? Halloween? The first frost? Falling leaves? The pungent aroma of smoke curling from chimneys?[…]
Currents
Conversion to ethanol not green for ducks
What’s good for the goose is always good for the gander, but what’s good for the deer may not always be good for the duck. As reported in our June issue, Louisiana farmers are converting acreage once reserved for only cotton and sugar cane into corn fields, and a boom in the state’s deer population may very well result.[…]
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Deer Dogs with Wings
“Damn buzzard!” the hunter muttered under his breath as he signed his name across the bottom of the check.It was no consolation that he wasn’t the first deer club rule violator brought to justice by an ugly black bird who makes its living from death.[…]
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Take Two
While attending a JAKES Day put on by the National Wild Turkey Federation in Monroe a few years ago, I was asked if I wanted to sign up my son for the JAKES program.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer tagging to be voluntary this season
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission suspended the rules requiring mandatory deer tagging for the 2007-08 hunting season at their Sept. 6 meeting.[…]
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State’s deer herd losing a very good friend
I have some bad news.It’s really bad if you’re a deer.
Dave Moreland is retiring this month. Who’s Dave Moreland? Well, if you’ve been a Louisiana Sportsman reader for more than about five minutes, you’ve certainly seen Moreland’s name — many times.[…]
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2007-08 WMA Forecast
There’s no end to the news from wildlife management areas from last hunting season and, more importantly because it’s that time of the year again, going into the 2007-08 hunting season in a true Sportsman’s Paradise.[…]
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Sixteen Times Four
Having heard more than my fair share of empty boasting and even emptier promises, it was with an exhausted ear that I listened to what my buddy Dennis Tietje was trying to get me to understand over the phone.[…]
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Right shotgun will hold child’s interest
The first wild game Brent ever took was a dove — and he killed it with a Daisy air rifle. Kell Munson and I were cleaning our limits of birds with more than an hour of daylight left.[…]