Deer of the Year
Recovery is most difficult part in Ruddell claiming his buck
Gunner Ruddell shot this 11-point trophy buck with his Remington X-bolt 300 mag at the Beech Creek Hunting Club in Winn Parish on Nov. 26. […]
Winn Parish
Deer of the Year
Buck plays cat-and-mouse game with hunter
On Nov. 2, Everitt “Rett” Blake killed a trophy 10-point buck on a 1500 acre plot leased by his family in Winn Parish. […]
Deer of the Year
Trying for son’s first deer, Menard downs 16-point hammer
Kendra Menard took down a 16-point trophy buck on Dec. 4 with her Tikka 7mm.08 while hunting with her son in Winn Parish. […]
Deer of the Year
Despite COVID and meningitis, Roark downs Winn Parish giant
Monroe Roark dropped a monster 9-point buck in Winn Parish on Thanksgiving afternoon, Nov. 26, despite battling COVID and meningitis. […]
Deer of the Year
Big buck claimed by appropriately named LA Tech student
Hunter Tuggle got her big buck while hunting on Nov. 17 with her dad and other family members on their lease in Winn Parish. […]
Deer of the Year
Kisatchie National Forest gives up huge buck for Montgomery hunter
For Dakota Carter of Montgomery, 20 feet up in an oak tree on the Kisatchie National Forest was the perfect place for him to take a trophy buck. […]
Deer of the Year
Effie teen downs big Winn Parish 8-point
Thirteen-year-old Meadow McNeal developed an interest in hunting when she hit the woods in pursuit of squirrels with her grandfather. […]
Deer of the Year
Stonewall hunter downs big 11-point in Winn Parish
When Paul Stewart noticed a big buck flirting with the edge of his shooting lane in a pine orchard near Winnfield last weekend, he decided not wait around for the perfect shot. […]
Deer of the Year
Fourth grader downs Winn Parish 13-pointer
For the past four years, Ronnie Ables has been after a particularly impressive buck that has been hanging around the 130-acre lease near his home in Winn Parish. […]
General
Bald eagle struck and killed by vehicle in Winn Parish
Brandt Barton was traveling on Highway 34 heading into Joyce early Friday morning when something laying on the opposite side of the road caught his eye. […]
Deer of the Year
Third shot is the charm on massive Winn Parish 8-point
Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, and things that happen in the woods just don’t makes a whole lot of sense. […]
Deer of the Year
Pineville hunter shoots 11-pointer in Winn Parish
Jeremy Harding was in the right place at the right time — and looking out the right window of his box stand — when he took down a big 11-point buck on Nov. 1 in Winn Parish. […]
Inshore Fishing
LDWF schedules drawdown for Saline Lake beginning July 1
With about 1,200 acres already covered in giant salvinia, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is scheduling a drawdown beginning July 1 to control nuisance vegetation on Saline Lake in Winn Parish. […]
Deer of the Year
Pair of Winn Parish bucks fall to father, son on same day from same stand
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. […]
Deer of the Year
Big deer dubbed ‘Bambi’ killed in Winn Parish
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. […]
Deer of the Year
Back-up plan results in freakish Winn Parish ‘cactus buck’
Jack Fluitt sometimes has a back-up plan when it comes to deer hunting. Fortunately for Fluitt, a pipeline welder who lives near Tannehill in Winn Parish, he put his back-up plan to work the Thursday morning (Nov. 3) – and that plan allowed him to nail a freakish 17-point “cactus buck.” […]