Hunting
The Vapor Maker
The Vapor Maker is a scent dispersal system that puts scent in the air in liquid form, allowing you to release any scent killer or attractant the natural way that animals smell it.[…]
Statewide LA
Deer Hunting
Acorns held on longer during 2011-12 hunting season
If your plots grew tall last year because deer were busy eating acorns in the hardwoods, you’re not alone. Deer were difficult to hunt last season because they had so much hard mast in the woods to eat that they didn’t have to venture too far away from this secluded food source.[…]
Hunting
THE TUBE Gravity Feeder
Keep your feed off the ground with THE TUBE Gravity Wildlife Feeder.[…]
Deer Hunting
Attract more deer by planting hard mast trees
I got hooked on planting food plots several years ago, but it didn’t take too long for me to figure out that I needed something more than green patches if I hoped to create a property that provided something more than just a spot to shoot deer.[…]
Fishing
Latest Lowrance fish finder has more user-friendly touchscreen
Lowrance introduced the HDS Gen2 line of fishfinders and fishfinder/GPS combination units during the spring of 2012 and in October introduced the latest expansion of the top-selling multifunction display units, HDS Gen2 Touch.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Stick, Move and Communicate — Catch more redfish on tough fishing days
As a soldier in a field-artillery unit based in Baumholder, Germany, three words drilled into my government-issue brain were shoot, move and communicate.[…]
News Breaker
CORRECTION: Youth waterfowl hunters must be 15 years or younger
A story on the benefits of youth waterfowl hunting in the November 2012 issue of Louisiana Sportsman contained erroneous regulations for the ages of hunters eligible for youth hunts.[…]
Fishing
The most important electrical impulses are between your ears
Floating around for three hours with nothing but a Coleman cooler between you and drowning is enough to make a guy and his friends renew the commonsense boating habits they’ve let slide.[…]
Fishing
Ditch bag stocking-up sources
These addresses will take you directly to the products and save a lot of searching.[…]
Columns
Smith & Wesson hits the ‘sweet spot’ with their new Shield
One of my favorite “working” handguns has become my Smith & Wesson Military & Police Pro series pistol in 9 mm. This gun has a factory 4 1/2-pound trigger pull, and I recently purchased a Level III retention holster.[…]
Columns
Invest in safety this season
Well, October is here at last. It is the month we hunters look forward to like kids waiting for Christmas.[…]
Columns
All flashes are not equal
This past week I ran by the showroom of one of my favorite hunting-products companies that, fortunately for me, happens to be headquartered about a 20-minute drive from my home.[…]
Fishing
Hobie’s new 14-foot model keeps popular features, upgrades others
Hobie isn’t a company that rests on it laurels. The Mirage Pro Angler 14 was introduced in 2009 and won Best of Show Honors at ICAST (International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades) that year.[…]
Events & Announcements
Cover: November 2012
The November issue of Louisiana Sportsman will be complete by the end of the day (Oct. 18) and hopefully circulating hunting camps soon.[…]
Apex Predator
Close call with deer calls
The weekend started slow for me. Laura had a hog walk behind her within 30 yards on Friday (Oct. 12) morning, but she couldn’t see it in the thick underbrush from her ground blind. She heard it softly grunt several times.
I had no action on either hunt Friday or Saturday morning. Things picked up on my midday stalk when I came across this huge king snake and a large 8-foot gator in a small 6-inch deep hole about 10 yards across. It was by far the longest king snake I ever seen. They are such pretty and friendly snakes, unlike the gator who wasn’t very happy to be stuck in a small place with me nearby.[…]
Deer Hunting
Food facts: Target the best deer foods to kill more deer
As we all know, the 2011 mast crop was tremendous, but the overall statewide deer harvest was way down from past years.[…]