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Mastering Marsh Deer
“Not bad for a marsh buck!”
How many times had I heard those words?[…]
November 2007
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Cover: Novebmer 2007
Think it’s been too hot to kill big deer? Billy Husted might disagree. He downed the new state record archery buck on Oct. 2.[…]
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Are your guns ready for deer season?
We were sighting in several rifles for a friend last year — each year it seems he has another boy old enough to start deer hunting, and another rifle gets added to the batch I have to tune in on my range.[…]
Fishing
Even insects can cause motor failure
As I think back over the years, I have seen many different things that can cause serious damage to your outboard motor. Marine dealers and repair shops have done an excellent job of informing and educating outboard motor owners on how to prevent these things from happening.[…]
Ask Captain Paul
Pontchartrain trestles are heating up
Dear Capt. Paul:
I want to try fishing more close to home in the Slidell area. In particular, I want to try fishing the Twin Spans and Trestle areas. My problem is I don’t know which area to start fishing because there are miles of bridges.[…]
Fishing
Is that on-screen fish really a fish?
Fish I.D. features that display cartoon-like fish symbols have been around since fish finders became computerized and incorporated LCD screens, and the controversy about whether the feature helps or hurts your fishing has been around just as long.[…]
Bass Fishing
Fish the lake no one seems to love
I don’t know why so few anglers seem to love Northeast Louisiana’s Poverty Point. It’s loaded with trophy-sized Florida-strain bass, it’s managed for trophy bass and although crappie fishermen love it, many bass fishermen never have heard of it.[…]
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Annual autumn inspections in order
When considering the purchase of my home, I hired a home inspector to give me a professional opinion of what condition it was in.[…]
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Stuck in the Middle
In the beginning, Lloyd Landry was just like any other conscientious Louisiana duck hunter. He would study duck flights and feeding patterns in the Venice area, and set up his blind along primary flight corridors.[…]
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Beauty & the Beast
The traditional fairy tale Beauty and the Beast is a perfect example of situational irony. Readers don’t expect Beauty, or Belle in the Walt Disney version, to ever fall in love with such a hideous looking beast, but that’s exactly what happens in the end.[…]
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Crash Landing
Twenty minutes into a 50-minute plane ride at the end of a five-day grizzly bear hunting trip, Jody Vaccarella of Franklin quit thinking about the wondrous sights he’d just seen in the unspoiled wilderness of Alaska.[…]
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Duck Restaurant
Pelayo knelt near the bow sweeping the Q-beam along the squiggly trenasse. I steered the little 9 1/2-horse outboard while trying to heed his frantic arm motions to turn this way, then suddenly THAT way.[…]
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Mishmash in the Marsh
I withdrew into my parka as Kirk Stansel buzzed his way through the narrow maze of ditches that ran through the marsh. The mix of stinging raindrops and the slapping reeds was a bit too much for the senses at such an early hour.[…]
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The Shooting Doctor is in
The goal of most hunters is to get as close as possible to a deer to ensure a kill, so Bill Cobb was surprised by Dr. Randy Brown’s request before heading out of Woodlawn Plantation Hunting Club’s camp a few years ago.[…]
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Almost There!
There’s no other wildlife management area quite like it.[…]
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Redfish Pandemonium
Webster defines pandemonium as ‘a wild uproar.’
I’m pretty sure that’s the best way to describe what was happening all around me.[…]