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Marsh Mashing

What could put Tae Bo, Pilates and Jazzercise to shame when it comes to air-sucking cardiovascular activity? What would make someone want to suffer charlie horses to the point of screaming for those around them to put them out of their misery?[…]

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Mystifying Mottleds

There aren’t many Louisiana duck hunters who haven’t been snubbed by these guys. No matter how well you hide in your blind, no matter how sweet your calling may sound or how realistic your decoy spread might be, somehow they just know.[…]

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Tensas Tango

The deer wasn’t supposed to be there. Robert Chenier was sitting a couple hundred yards from where the buck was expected to be, not because he didn’t want to kill a big deer. No, it was because one of his buddies had claimed the prime spot.[…]

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Book like scripture to gun culture

I would like to recommend a book to you.

If you are reading this column, you are probably more than a little interested in some facet of the shooting sports, and every month, we try to bring you illuminating information on a firearm or shooting accessory. Not this month.[…]

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Health Club Ducks

What’s more exasperating than watching flock after flock after flock of ducks (mostly greys) land far out into the open water 300 yards away from your decoy spread, which was lovingly placed in a sheltered little cove and strategically set out from 20 to 35 yards downwind of where you huddle, perfectly hidden, in a grove of marsh alders blowing yourself hoarse on a duck call?[…]

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Rack-Filled and Rugged

Robert Duncan grew up hunting the piney woods of Washington Parish. He can vividly recall traipsing through the woods around Ben’s Creek west of Bogalusa.
However, his weren’t the only set of feet slogging through the creek bottom.[…]

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Fly Away Home

The dawn broke early.

A week prior at this time, I was just crawling out of bed to go through the same routine that I had just endured for the last hour.But that trip was prior to the annual “falling back” event for the clocks, and this one was after.[…]