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Turkey Talk
When I woke up this morning, I immediately noticed something was different. It was just starting to break daylight, and I hadn’t heard the first vehicle come down the old gravel road.[…]
Hunting
Columns
New Smith & Wesson M&P a joy to hold
The young woman certainly looked like she knew what she was doing. Slim, longish brown hair, attractive, early 30s, she held the Glock 19 with a firm two-handed grip and addressed the target aggressively, her head tilted forward as she gained proper sight picture.[…]
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A Home of their Own
I couldn’t help but note the irony. It was a classic show-and-tell. Three clear and plaintive “bobwhite” calls drifted through the pines to the ears of our crew — calls made by three different birds.[…]
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Hell on Hooves
I knew it was going to be a different kind of day when Scottie Holland with Louisiana Hog Hunters in Natalbany handed me a clipboard and asked me to sign a release.[…]
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Creeped Out
Cockroaches get hip to our methods of massacring them and develop defenses. Bacteria do the same. Then brilliant folks in lab coats get their dander up, spit on their hands and spend months of painstaking labor in laboratories peering into microscopes, mixing deadly concoctions and checking results.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Ducks cranking up behind cold front
If a Monday morning marsh hunt with Hackberry Rod & Gun is any indication, Louisiana waterfowlers reluctantly counting down the days of the 2006-07 season may finish with a flurry thanks to the cold front making its way across the state.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Atchafalaya Delta WMA holding variety of ducks
This duck season has been all about being in the right spot at the right time, and there’s no better public spot to hunt through the end of the season than Atchafalaya Delta WMA.[…]
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Object of Obsession
Dylan Riley placed the crosshairs of his scope right where he thought it should go and squeezed the trigger. The deer didn’t even flinch. He recomposed himself and squeezed off another shot, and another.[…]
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Cover: January 2007
These stories will get you fired up and determined to spend a few more hours in the stand as this season winds to a close.[…]
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Trophy Buck Threesome
The number three has become a rather significant digit for me. I have THREE daughters who have presented me with THREE grandsons.[…]
Columns
Lasergrips help beginning handgunners
The letter was just one more of hundreds of e-mails I get each year asking about classes: “I purchased a handgun over the weekend for my personal use. I am interested in enrolling in your course for gun safety and concealed carry.[…]
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Squirrel Talk
Listen, you can hear two gray squirrels and one fox squirrel barking,” I said, whispering to my son after making a young-squirrel-in-distress call.[…]
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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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Move it or Lose it
Doc Fontaine’s got a dandy camp and duck lease near Cocodrie. It’s got “beautiful” blinds in “beautiful” ponds with “beautiful” spreads of decoys (that stay out most of the season).[…]
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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.[…]
Other Hunting
Late-season dove hunting ridiculously good
There are few things in life more ego-flattening than a really good dove hunt. That being the case, I spent my Christmas weekend eating shared dove breasts and a giant piece of humble pie.[…]