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Mercury Matters
It wasn’t what any sane hunter would call a cool morning, with daybreak temperatures hovering about 72.[…]
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Lovey Dovey
Louisiana will really be a “Sportsman’s Paradise” for those outdoorsmen who enjoy the challenge of wing shooting for speedy gray bullets that buzz grain fields in the fall.[…]
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2004 Duck Forecast
As owner of Mallard Retreat, James Warrington has the option of hunting any of his five lodges from Jonesville, La., to northern Alberta, Canada, including Stuttgart, Ark., southern Alberta and North Dakota.[…]
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2004-2005 WMA Forecast
As days off and vacations were being planned for hunting in 2004-05, state wildlife biologists liked what they saw on public hunting acreage in their respective districts.[…]
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Cover: August 2004-Hunting
Want to attract and hold deer on your property? We tell you what to plant.[…]
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Permanent Plots
Let’s face it: Plowing, soil testing, liming, fertilizing, planting and killing weeds to maintain a green field includes exhausting work and often great expense. A green field, like a two-edged sword, can and will attract and feed deer.[…]
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Reminisces, Requim and Rites of Passage
Cypress Grove Hunting Club is a throwback to the days of yesteryear, when there weren’t a lot of deer in the woods, and hunting clubs were large, extended family groups that passed memberships down like knightings.[…]
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Creeping Cocodrie-Style
The red was clearly visible, relaxing just on the edge of a marshy point of grass.[…]
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Conference highlights new gun products
I love trade shows in the outdoor industry. Anytime you get to go to a big display of manufacturers’ offerings to hunting, fishing, boating and camping folks, it’s like Christmas for us big guys.[…]
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It’s Now or Never
A spectral shape darted across the shadowy bottom, disappearing behind a fallen treetop.[…]
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2004 Turkey Forecast
Paul Ferrell had several good turkey hunts last year, but one stood out above the rest and will be forever etched in his memory.[…]
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Don’t sit, Hunt!
“Look at ’EM ALL!” Pelayo whacked my shoulder and pointed through the passenger window. I turned, and my eyes bugged.[…]
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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.[…]