Well, many thought my buddy Cal Fontenot and I were crazy to take on such an adventure. Besides, who just jumps in their truck and drives to another country in the hopes of killing ducks without making the first phone call, knowing anyone, or going through an outfitter (not that we could afford one)?[…]
When I was in sixth grade, going into seventh, I had a crush on Sandy. In fact, I even went steady with Sandy for one short afternoon.[…]
Lloyd Posey was sitting in his Department of Wildlife & Fisheries truck trying to stay warm Jan. 4, 1994, when he heard a gunshot in the woods.[…]
I had spent a lot of time preparing the stand site, which I first hunted the prior season.[…]
It was late afternoon on the Hammock Lease in northern Winn Parish. I sat in my truck trying to stay warm, watching for deer on a long stretch of road.[…]
The water was high, but it wouldn’t be for long.[…]
Deer are fair game for the entire state this month.[…]
EDITOR’S NOTE — This is part two of a series detailing four Louisiana public areas with historically high odds of deer hunting success.[…]
“No bird this time!” I thought to myself. These branches were REALLY swaying.[…]
Have you ever harvested a fine buck and then started thinking that it would have been nice if he had bred all the does in the woods?[…]
Steve Anderson reached his land about mid afternoon, and hopped on his golf cart to head to a stand. […]
The shot rang out from the direction of my son David’s stand. In my little shooting house, I quietly pumped my fist and whispered, “YES!”[…]
Biologists have long known that it’s impossible to stockpile rabbits in the wild. Everything from foxes to hawks, coyotes to humans eats rabbits, and each year somewhere around 80 percent of the furballs die whether they’re shot by us Elmer Fudds or not.[…]
Why carry around binoculars when you have equal or greater magnification capabilities attached to the top of your rifle?[…]
What would fall be without our annual WMA Forecast?[…]
Southwest Louisiana has a special place in my fishing heart. There, on the border estuary of Sabine Lake, guide Chuck Uzzle introduced me to a large harem of speckled trout some six years ago. It was the biggest stringer of gorilla trout I have ever caught — nine fish over 28 inches were released that day.[…]