Deer of the Year
150-inch 16-pointer falls to DeSoto Parish hunter
Tony Sattler knew a big buck with an unusual rack was in the area; his trail camera had validated it.[…]
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2013 Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest planning under way
Plans are already in the works for the 2013 edition of the Louisiana Sportsman Big Buck Contest, which is slated for March 15-17 at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales.[…]
Deer of the Year
Cold front pushes 170-inch Lincoln Parish buck to hunter
Thirty-nine-year-old Chris Otwell knew where he wanted to hunt this morning (Nov. 12); he just couldn’t decide where to park his body for the hunt.[…]
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War of attrition — maximizing your public-land hunting
The Friday after Thanksgiving 2011 found Lyle Savant of Central locating an active scrape near an oak flat deep within the interior of Sherburne Wildlife Management Area.[…]
Deer of the Year
165-inch Claiborne Parish buck completes ‘buddy trifecta’
Dr. Bric Langford is a chiropractor with his practice in Jasper, Texas, who grew up in Haynesville hunting, fishing and playing sports with buddies Tyler Lewis and Collin Merritt. […]
Deer of the Year
Gut feeling leads to 150-inch Claiborne Parish buck
Tyler Lewis knew where he was going to be sitting come daylight on Saturday morning (Nov. 3). After an evening meal with two life-long friends, Collin Merritt and Bric Langford, Lewis voiced a desire that within 24 hours would prove to be prophetic.[…]
Deer of the Year
Leton hunter takes 190-inch 14-point
Collin Merritt, Tyler Lewis and Bric Langford grew up together around Haynesville, hunting and fishing and playing football together all their lives.[…]
Deer of the Year
Corney Bottom yields monster 8-point
Bernice’s Daniel Colvin knew the 8-point his trail camera had revealed was a brute. He just didn’t know how big it really was until he laid his hands on the rack once the buck was on the ground Monday afternoon (Oct. 29).
Tape still had to be stretched on the antlers, but several observers say the rack should top out in the 150 class — quite a score for an 8 point.
“It’s for sure the biggest buck I ever saw in Corney Bottom,” Colvin said.[…]
Deer of the Year
Barksdale AFB bowhunter takes 140-inch 14-point
To paraphrase a famous quote: “Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you.”
In Mitch Seitz’s case, the “something” was a 14-point buck that came within feet of his tree stand Saturday (Oct. 27) during a Barksdale Air Force Base hunt.[…]
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War of attrition — maximizing your public-land hunting
The Friday after Thanksgiving 2011 found Lyle Savant of Central locating an active scrape near an oak flat deep within the interior of Sherburne Wildlife Management Area.[…]
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Sherburne complex season dates
While archery hunting began Oct. 1, there is still a lot of deer hunting remaing for this season.[…]
Deer Hunting
Sherburne WMA deer recover from 2011 flooding
In May 2011, historic flooding once again swamped the Atchafalaya Basin when the Morganza Spillway was opened.[…]
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Indian Bayou Area offers more deer-hunting opportunities
Directly across the Atchafalaya River on its western bank in St. Landry and St. Martin parishes, another 28,500 acres of mixed swamps and hardwood bottomlands provide even more public access to deer hunting.[…]
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The Community Scrape
In search of vegetative foliage, five bucks — a mature 8-pointer, a 3½-year-old, two spunky spikes and a curious button buck — go single file along the forest edge, ascending a bluff.[…]
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Sweet Treats – Find better deer hunting on oak flats
Acorns crunched under my boots as my buddy and I pressed farther into the heart of Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge.[…]
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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.[…]