Lying with our backs against the side of an Arkansas ditch huffing and puffing trying to catch our breath is where I remember my buddy’s words that offered no relief to the pains that would later become that night’s leg and body cramps.[…]
4:05 p.m. — I down the last sip of my coffee. In no hurry, I notice my brother is getting antsy. Who wouldn’t? […]
With the first waves of fall migrant ducks and geese starting to show up in Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is reminding eager hunters about the changes for the 2008-09 migratory waterfowl season.[…]
Shane Johnson had found a magical hunting spot, and couldn’t wait to set up on it.“There was this scrape that was about 6 feet around,” Johnson said.[…]
Mandeville resident A.B. York arrowed this 171-inch beast last November in East Carroll Parish.[…]
Hurricane Andrew did it to Sherburne WMA in 1992 — barreled through and leveled it. This saved the LDWF millions.[…]
The late, great Robert Ruark wrote for many of the big outdoor mags in the 1950s and ’60s, and began a series of columns that would become one of the all-time hunting classics, entitled “The Old Man and the Boy.”[…]
Frank Tullar was the guy I hung out with in high school. Of course, the fact that I dated his sister might have been part of it. Nonetheless, we were friends, and his sister didn’t hunt squirrels.[…]
I’d never heard the term “small ball” until I started watching the LSU Tigers baseball team in recent years.For the uninformed, small ball involves getting on base any way you can — scratch singles, bunts, walks, base stealing, getting hit by a pitch.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is now accepting applications for the 2008 waterfowl marsh and rice field lottery hunts on the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area.[…]
Which WMAs hold the keys to your 2008-09 hunting success? Find out in this issue.[…]
A deer walks into range. Quietly, the hunter takes aim through his scope. At just the right moment, the safety is clicked off and the hunter gently squeezes the trigger to send an arrow through the broadside buck.[…]
With teal season beginning this month, and the full-fledged duck season only a little while behind it, the annual trek to the salt marshes of our coastline will begin.[…]
Having been involved with deer management work for 30+ years, it is my opinion that hunting white-tailed deer in the South is more challenging than in any other region of the United States.[…]
God loves paradoxes. I’m convinced of it. I have a close friend named Dean Adamek who abandoned American culture a decade ago, and moved his family to Guadalupe, Mexico, to run an orphanage, Rancho 3M.[…]
“How hard could this be?” I asked myself as my eyes darted from one flock of teal to another. “Don’t know about the rest off these guys, but I’ll be heading back for breakfast before there’s even the slightest sliver of sky between the sun and the horizon.”[…]