Hunting
God’A Grip
God’A Grip’s self-customizing gun grips enhance the comfort and feel of your favorite firearm or crossbow.[…]
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Fishing
Berkley Classics Turboglide
The Berkley Classics TurboGlide Lithium-ion Cordless Electric Fillet System features the smooth, lightweight and powerful Classics TurboGlide fillet knife, with non-slip SofTorx finish grip and a 7 ½-inch serrated blade, perfect for precision cuts or large fillets.[…]
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Sighting in doesn’t have to be hard
Buck drove me crazy.
As anal as I am about my rifles, his idea of sighting in before deer season was to drive out on the pipeline at our lease, throw a gallon cooking oil can out, back off 60-75 yards, take a rest on his elbows, squint through his cheap scope and touch off a .30-06 round from his immensely popular (and notoriously inaccurate) semi-automatic rifle (he even had see-through mounts on the thing!) and bounce the can about 5 feet.[…]
Fishing
Talon holds anglers in shallow water
The word “anchor” starts visions dancing in my head of handling a heavy, muck- and weed-coated chunk of metal connected to a slimy wet rope by a length of rusty chain.[…]
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Bass love Bomber’s Model B
When Oklahoman Edwin Evers needs to put bass in the boat in one of the many high-pressure bass tournaments he fishes, including the recent Bassmaster Elite Series, he goes “hunting” with his favorite balsa wood crankbait — the Bomber Model B.[…]
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It’s time to hit the cooling oxbows
In North Louisiana during October, the weather will start to cool off. The bass will get into their fall mode more quickly than they do in South Louisiana because they’ll start to feel winter approaching.[…]
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Try to beat the odds in 2010
It’s all about the antlers’ was a statement made at the 2006 Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting in Baton Rouge. The evening’s discussion was on the use of antler restrictions (ARs) to produce older and bigger bucks.[…]
Bass Fishing
The haunt for reds in October
For most fly anglers in our state, it’s not the waters that torment us, but what swims in them. As we count down to All Hallow’s Eve, and the invasion of predatory species into our estuaries, the fly fishing can be so good it’s frightening.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Communication
Scent pheromones and their distinct odors are instinctively utilized by whitetails to convey a realm of communication related to dominant hierarchy and sexual interactions. […]
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Waterfowl Wonderland
I could hear the zooming wings of greenwing and bluewing teal just above my head as they glided into our decoy set. Mallards roamed the water, quacking away and the pintails whistled.[…]
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Saltwater Series: Lake Mechant
Who doesn’t want to know some secret spot where you could find a trout feeding frenzy around the rim of some isolated island – a spot where you could fill our ice chest without so much as having to look at another boat?[…]
Bass Fishing
Delicious Decline
The Choctaws called it “Atchafalaya” (ha-cha-fa-lia) for Long River, and, indeed it is long, winding through the center of a 930-square-mile region of bottomland hardwoods, with pristine backwater lakes, bayous and seemingly endless tupelo and cypress swamps in between.[…]
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The AJ Corral
The barrel-chested man’s face was florid, and he was sweating profusely. With two hands, he thrust the violently bucking rod into the grip of one of his fishing partners.“I love to jig; I love to hook ’em, not reel ’em in,” he grunted.[…]
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How to Kill a Deer
Pelayo was up ahead, hunched over next to a little live oak that grew along the creek branch. He was staring at the ground and nodding. Then he started walking in a little circle, still focusing downward.[…]
Bass Fishing
Here, There and Everywhere
Bass anglers old enough to remember Huey Lewis’ hit single, “It’s Hip To Be Square” from 1986 probably didn’t realize just how much awesome advice was encapsulated in those lyrics.[…]
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Mountain Men
Chris Davis had put in his time, scouting the rugged Tunica Hills to narrow down the options, and he had found what he hoped was the perfect set-up.[…]