Washington Parish deer hunter Karl Casanova told me one time that he thinks the best two opportunities Area 4 deer hunters have for killing a good deer are early in the bow season or right at the end of the bow season.[…]
Sixty-six-year-old Cal Kingsmill was born and raised in the Gentilly section of New Orleans, where he still lives.[…]
Cal Kingsmill and Ray Bellant are dedicated duck hunters, but they come from widely different backgrounds so they offer different perspectives about the reasons to hunt with wooden decoys.[…]
Hunting piney woods might present a bit of a challenge, but that doesn’t mean there’s a lack of deer.[…]
Carving waterfowl decoys sounds incredibly intimidating. Not so, said Cal Kingsmill, probably the visible ambassador for the art.[…]
Hunting get a little tougher later in the Canada goose season, but Wrecking Crew Guide Service’s Daryl Hodge offered some tips to help hunters limit out just the same.[…]
Many hunters have been in their deer stand and “something” steps into a field or shooting lane. The typical scenario is a buck on the prowl, usually at a considerable distance and in low light conditions.[…]
Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited seven men last week for alleged night-hunting violations in Cameron and Calcasieu parishes.[…]
Last year, Mark Cloud was focused on hunting a nocturnal 8-point buck he had nicknamed “Tall Tine” on his lease in Allen Parish.[…]
Before posting that selfie online with you and a nice buck, you better make sure you’re complying with all the basic big game hunting rules and regulations.[…]
Before posting that selfie online with you and a nice buck, you better make sure you’re complying with all the basic big game hunting rules and regulations.[…]
In the early ’80s, a young college graduate from Louisiana Tech was hired by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries as a wildlife specialist on Pearl River WMA.[…]
Sometimes taking down a wily old buck requires teamwork — which was definitely on display during a wild hunt that resulted in a 180-class monster biting the bullet in Richland Parish on Thanksgiving afternoon.[…]
More often than not, a breeze blowing from a hunter’s location toward where a mature buck is hanging out spells the end of a hunt — but adding Harmon’s Triple Heat Estrous Doe Lure to the mix can apparently change the rules.[…]
Before hunting pressure puts deer on high alert, the behavior of whitetails — even mature bucks — can be rather predictable.[…]
After a great Thanksgiving lunch at her grandmother’s house, Aaliyah Meshell got an unexpected invitation to go deer hunting with her mom and dad on their family land near Zwolle in Sabine Parish.[…]