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Cover: October 2005
Want to kill a big buck with your muzzleloader? In this issue, we tell you about two public areas that’ll give you better odds than most.[…]
Hunting
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Mojo Management
For more than 35 years, Mike Centanni didn’t simply hope to kill deer — he expected to.[…]
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Cover: September 2005
COVER: Louisiana Sportsman kicks off the hunting seasons with its forecasts for WMAs, ducks, and the deer rut.[…]
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Slack Busters
Robbie’s face lit up. His eyes bugged. A crazy grin creased his face. He’d just answered the cell phone from the passenger seat as we passed the Greater Macedonian Baptist Church on the way down to Venice.[…]
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Buck Bow-nanza
Some of the year’s hottest weather in Louisiana occurs during the oppressive days of August and September.[…]
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2005 Duck Forecast
Monday, Nov. 7 — The jet stream, that great river of air that drives the continent’s weather, stretches in a mildly undulating line from Oregon to Maine, pushing storms and weather fronts from west to east across North America.[…]
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2005-06 WMA Forecast
That wildlife managers with the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and private companies are doing everything they can to enhance hunting opportunities on public land has never been more apparent than this year.[…]
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Food Facts
It was hot in the woods, and mosquitoes rose in clouds each time a plant was disturbed.
On top of that, ticks crawled on anything with a pulse.
But Scott Durham was on his hands and knees, oblivious to the dangers of being sucked dry.[…]
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Cover: August 2005
NORTH COVER: Learn how biologists study a tract of land to determine the health of its deer herd. Photo by JOHN R. FORD[…]
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Lessons Learned
Out of nowhere, the allure of hunting wild turkeys in spring snuck into my bloodstream one April morning in 1992 over in Alabama.[…]
Currents
Biologists envision new deer regulations
When you mess with hunting privileges and traditions, you may as well be poking a stick at a beehive.[…]
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State of the State’s Turkeys
It stretches my mind to recall it, but I still remember the first wild turkey I ever saw in Louisiana.[…]
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Nighttime Raids
Trivia has it that Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), the father of French cuisine, listed frog legs on the menu of the famous Hotel Carlton in London as, “Cuisses de Nymphe Aurore.”
Considered a disgusting food by the British, who could resist an item on the menu with a name such as “Legs of the Dawn Nymphs?”[…]
Columns
New gun products are real Wonder
I first heard of Blue Wonder products in a high-end clothing store that sells guns. And rods and reels. And old cars. And watches and jewelry.[…]
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Season’s Select
The hunting season that just closed wasn’t typical.[…]
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Foot Stomping Swampers
Don’t put away that shotgun just yet. There is still time to get into some late-season marshland rabbit hunting action.[…]