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Monster Mash
This hunting season was the first in several years that featured consistently cool weather, and Louisiana’s sportsmen responded by hitting the woods with dreams of big bucks dancing in their heads.[…]
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Bull Fever
My first deer hunting experience ended far before it ever should have.[…]
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Double Down
If you like to catch all kinds of fish, you can have more fun than if you specialize in taking one species.[…]
Fishing
Louisiana Sportsman TV Debuts
A year ago, Louisiana Sportsman joined forces with GeauxFish TV to bring you the very best the magazine has to offer through the cable connection in the back of your television.[…]
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New Years’s Fireworks
I think the first time I ever noticed the abundance of doves during winter, I was duck hunting in the flooded rice fields of Northeast Louisiana. Adjacent to our waterhole was a dry field where row crops had grown earlier.[…]
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Leeville Trash Haul
It was just another day at Leeville, at least according to guide Chad Billiot. “The wind is always blowing down here,” Billiot said. “The wind today at least allows me to use the trolling motor.[…]
Fishing
Temperature governs fish activity
The first water temperature sensor I saw in a tackle shop was a weighted thermometer on a string that came with a list of fish species and the temperature that each species considered ideal.[…]
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On The Rebound
Clever soldiers who want to avoid work details keep their distance from superiors. “Out of sight, out of mind,” is the order for the troops who like their free time to remain free.[…]
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Seeing Green on the Red
The boat blind lunged forward as we jumped up to pick out greenheaded targets in the decoying flock of mallards.[…]
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Stinking it up
Passing up a few does during the Area 7 still and early muzzleloader hunts, and later missing a respectable 6-point during the late muzzleloader season, I began second-guessing myself.[…]
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Miss. expands list of primitive weapons
One of my all-time favorite movies is “Quigley Down Under.”In it, Tom Selleck plays a hard-bitten Texas cowpuncher with a knack for long-range shooting.[…]
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Treasure of Tensas Parish
Like all oxbow lakes, Lake Bruin was once an actual river channel. In this case, it was the Mississippi River channel.[…]
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Cover: January 2006
It’s been a banner year in the Louisiana outdoors this fall and winter. That great action will continue this month.[…]
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Antlers & Beards
I was programmed as a hunter from the start, and the start for me has been some time ago.[…]
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Miss. expands list of primitive weapons
One of my all-time favorite movies is “Quigley Down Under.”[…]
Ask Captain Paul
GPS makes woods hunting easier
Dear Capt. Paul:
I purchased a handheld Garmin GPS III quite a few years back.[…]