Deer Hunting
Commission considers February deer hunting in Areas 1, 6
Hunters in Areas 1 and 6 could be hunting into February if a proposal put forth by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission today is ultimately approved.[…]
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Spring a great time to prep for next deer season
The Deer need your help this time of year.
Look around: There is no green except for food plots leftover from hunting season, and they are in need of fertilizer (nitrogen only lasts 90 days ). And The herd is coming off a harsh winter and rut, so they are run down.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Casting and Hierarchy
The rut has come and gone. Bucks that survived hunting season are dropping their battered racks. Though the whitetails are no longer at war for dominance, the competitiveness still exists — even in the off season.[…]
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Port Allen hunter kills massive Sherburne deer on second try
Floyd Coye has hunted Sherburne Wildlife Management Area since it was created, pushing far into the swampy property with lifelong buddy Alvin Fairchild.[…]
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The little things
The little things…
This past bow season has taught me – once again – about the little things.[…]
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Winter continues, hunters should turn thoughts to habitat work
Another round of cold weather is moving into the state and that means more winter stress on the deer habitat.[…]
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Wildlife field day scheduled in Clinton
The annual Wildlife Workshop and Field Day will be on Feb. 27 at the Bob R.Jones-Idlewild Research Station in Clinton.[…]
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Deer Dynamics: Post-Rut
Exhaustion sets in, forcing the battle-scarred buck to seek refuge. An eye is wounded, and missing fur and cuts prevail all around its face and neck. Finally, the worn buck returns to an old bedding site. Here it beds down, and within minutes, the whitetail knocks out.[…]
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Mississippi considers more gun hunting for deer, fewer archery-only days
A proposed legislative bill that would increase gun hunting for deer by 22 days has the endorsement of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.[…]
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More about growth and development
A couple of weeks ago I was hunting in the Tree Blind (same stand where I killed the 8-year-old doe) in Clinton. At 5:05 p.m., a young buck walked out of the pine plantation into the patch and began eating winter grass and clover.[…]
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Cover: February 2010-Hunting
February’s a month to look back at the deer season that was and look forward to the trout season that’s just kicking off.[…]
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Deer of the Year
Hunters had been waiting for a cool fall and winter for what seemed like forever, and judging from the number of big bucks that had hit the ground as of mid January, it was well worth the wait.[…]
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Lacombe hunter kills 6-point doe
Earl Daret was up at the crack of dawn this morning, and when looked of his house to his adjacent five-acre field he was excited.[…]
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Jarreau’s Langlois takes 170-class buck on second try
Andy Langlois came out of the woods in early January kicking himself for missing the deer of a lifetime while hunting a 110-acre piece of family property just outside of New Roads.
“It was a morning hunt, and about 6:50 (a.m.) what looked like a 4-point came out at about 100 yards,” the Jarreau hunter explained “I looked at the 4-point, and I put my gun down.”
That’s when a huge-racked deer appeared from the nearby cutover.[…]
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Plaquemine man arrested in undercover sting
Two men were busted Jan. 15 for allegedly selling deer to undercover agents in a year-long undercover operation, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported yesterday.[…]
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Nutrition, nutrition, nutrition
The January 2010 issue of the Louisiana Sportsman had an article about spike bucks titled “Once a Spike, Always a Spike?” Is a spike a genetically inferior deer? Hunters have been asking those questions for 50 years.[…]