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Stood Up
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.[…]
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Record Racks
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.[…]
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Pro Pointers
I had spent a lot of time preparing the stand site, which I first hunted the prior season.[…]
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Dugdemona Deer Doggin’
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.[…]
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Hooked on Quack
The water was high, but it wouldn’t be for long.[…]
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Cover: October 2004
Deer are fair game for the entire state this month.[…]
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Up Close and Personal
EDITOR’S NOTE — This is part two of a series detailing four Louisiana public areas with historically high odds of deer hunting success.[…]
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Squirrel & Swine
“No bird this time!” I thought to myself. These branches were REALLY swaying.[…]
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Mr. Dominator
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?[…]
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Mississippi Magic
Steve Anderson reached his land about mid afternoon, and hopped on his golf cart to head to a stand. […]
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Miracle Mud
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!”[…]
Currents
Like rabbits, ducks ruled by nature
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.[…]
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Bionic Eyes
Why carry around binoculars when you have equal or greater magnification capabilities attached to the top of your rifle?[…]
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Cover: September 2004
What would fall be without our annual WMA Forecast?[…]
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Sunup to Sundown
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.[…]
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Mercury Matters
It wasn’t what any sane hunter would call a cool morning, with daybreak temperatures hovering about 72.[…]