Louisiana Sportsman

Youth-only lottery turkey hunt scheduled for Kistatchie National Forest

January 21, 2013 From News Reports

All five Kisatchie National Forest districts will be open for youth-only turkey lottery hunts on March 16 to provide more opportunities for young hunters, the U.S. Forest Service announced.

There are a limited number of hunting slots available: 20 youth hunters will be selected for four of the five districts, with the Caney District only accepting 15 young hunters, the Forest Service said.

The deadline for applying for these hunts is Feb. 1.[…]

Red River WMA lottery youth hunt yields 130-class deer

January 17, 2013 Chris Ginn

Pineville 6th-grader Chloe Slayter has not been in school long enough to learn about the power of three, but she knows about the three bears.[…]

Hunter scores 167 6/8 B&C buck in Avoyelles Parish

January 16, 2013 M.A. Fisher

Hunting on a small piece of land can make deer management difficult.[…]

Pair of Winn Parish bucks fall to father, son on same day from same stand

January 10, 2013 M.A. Fisher

For centuries, fathers and sons have shared hunting experiences that become family folklore – the stories that are told around the Sunday dinner table, at reunions, at holiday time.[…]

Father-daughter time turns into trophy kill when 15-year-old shoots 200-inch buck

January 9, 2013 Andy Crawford

Blane Haygood treasures his time in the hunting stand — not so much because he loves shooting deer but because it’s when he really gets to spend time with his 15-year-old daughter Kendall.[…]

Big deer dubbed ‘Bambi’ killed in Winn Parish

January 3, 2013 Glynn Harris

You have to hand it to Steve Burnum and his 16-year-old son Leyton for sticking with the mission of downing a big buck they’d known about since 2008.[…]

The Broken Bridge Buck

January 3, 2013 Josh Chauvin

My brother joined me for a few days of hunting Red River Wildlife Management Area during the bucks-only season. Rain was in the forecast, but he drove up early for a morning hunt, and we decided to tough it out in our ground blinds.[…]

Determined bowhunter takes Avoyelles Parish 10-point

December 19, 2012 M.A. Fisher

Most seasoned deer hunters have been on a hunt that lasts a couple of days. But how many of them can say they essentially shot, tracked and shot again to kill the same deer over the course of a two-day period?[…]

Foggy hunting trip ends with Vernon Parish trophy deer

December 17, 2012 M.A. Fisher

Call it beginner’s luck or call it fate.

Whatever you call it, James Faulk experienced it on the morning of Dec. 7 in a deer stand near Toledo Bend. Faulk, a 30-year old Erath resident, was hunting that day on his brother Clint’s Vernon Parish lease.[…]

Despite comedy of errors, hunter arrows 205 class buck

December 10, 2012 Glynn Harris

Sometimes even when everything bad imaginable happens, fate smiles on you and bad turns to good. For Casey Young, who hunts his family’s property in Concordia Parish, the good couldn’t have been better on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 13 as he stood over the fallen form of a huge 18-point buck sporting lights-out headgear.[…]