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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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Fly Delta
Hunt a place for a decade, and you’ll see sights known to no other man. Hunt a place as productive as the Atchafalaya Delta for a decade, and you’ll have a front-row seat to manifestations of nature too glorious to be fully appreciated by just one man.[…]
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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.[…]
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Front-ending Bucks
Al Bullock knew a good buck was in the cutover, but after six straight days of hunting West Bay Wildlife Management Area he had nothing but lost time to show.[…]
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Goose Gear
I cannot count how many times I have traveled the back roads through Rayne, Crowley, Kaplan and Gueydan and points in between on my way to Pecan Island.[…]
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Make Your Luck
Rowdy deer visits children’s store
Head manager Joseph Velesis said he tried to calm the deer by talking to it, but the animal panicked and charged toward the back of the store.[…]
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Gleaning the Glades
Duck hunters throughout Louisiana were whining about the dearth of targets last year, and many had given up by the end of the first split.[…]
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Water, Water Everywhere
It was an early January morning, and a bright moon, two days past full, cast an eerie light across the swamp. A bitter North Louisiana cold snap had kept the temperature below freezing for several days, and now it was in the low 20s with a light north wind. […]