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Walk the talk
My previous article was called “Balancing Hunting and Family.” I wrote it to explain just how important family is to me and the need to balance my passion for hunting with the needs of my family life.[…]
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Protein feeding turns corner for hunting club
Serious deer hunters often debate how to grow hammer bucks, and they all agree that age and groceries are critical to growing racks.[…]
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Deer are falling in Louisiana and Texas
Last week I had a chance to hunt two great places. Thursday through Friday I hunted Laguna Ranch, a 12,000-acre property in Laredo, Texas.[…]
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User CKC Cowboy takes Red River trophy
I had a great New Year’s holiday, I took a real nice buck at Red River WMA Saturday, Jan. 2. Here is how it happened.[…]
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Deer Dynamics
When the rut is in full swing, mature bucks are tending and breeding estrous does while young bucks, instinctively desperate to test their testosterone, attempt to spoil the party.[…]
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Above It All
The 7-point buck presented a perfect 40-yard broadside shot. Ben Fontenot had been waiting for this moment for a long time.[…]
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West Monroe’s Bower takes massive 27-point buck
West Monroe’s L.E. Bower Jr. wasn’t planning to hunt when he headed to his Ouachita Parish lease Sunday (Dec. 27) after attending church and eating lunch with the family.[…]
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Quality deer management: Managing inferior young deer
We are in the final week of December 2009, and there will be one more month of deer gun hunting in Areas 1 and 6, but the best is yet to come.[…]
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Tracking the Rut, Part III: After the Madness
The hunters had put in so much time afield that interest had ebbed, so when the morning broke on Jan. 20, no one showed much desire to leave the camp. They slept late, and then lounged around, enjoying the last of the season’s camaraderie.[…]
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Once a Spike, Always a Spike?
I’m not interested in growing giant, trophy bucks because — everybody repeat in unison — you can’t eat horns. However, I am interested in having a healthy population of deer on my meager Washington Parish property.[…]
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Cover: January 2010
Ira Patureau thought outside the box to kill this post-rut buck in Assumption Parish.[…]
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LouisianaSportsman.com’s Guerin finishes out buck limit
Here is the whole story. Hunted yesterday evening (Dec. 27 on Mississippi lease). Saw a doe in my food plot on powerline. She stayed and then left and then later she or another doe guessing the same one reentered and fed until dark.[…]
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Balancing hunting and family
Hunting is not life. There I said it. Not exactly what you thought you would read in this article, huh? But it is absolutely true.[…]
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No Christmas buck for me
I mentioned last week that I thought the deer breeding in the Clinton area should be in full swing over the next two weeks. Last Wednesday I had a single buck move into the drain I was set up in.[…]
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Giles Island treat
Starting the back half of my six-day hunt at Giles Island, it rained all day. We got in a funnel stand at 3 pm due to a lightning delay. It was still raining the next day as we arrived at our climbing tree, and already there was a 17-inch, 3-yearr-old 8-pointer eating pecans in the road 80 yards ahead.[…]
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197-inch buck killed in West Baton Parish
Jeremy Horner has killed a lot of deer in his 35 years, and he’s usually chasing the animals hard. But this season he just hasn’t had time.[…]