Hog Hunting
Making hog’s head cheese
Hog’s head cheese, of course, isn’t a cheese made of dairy products; rather, it is a meat jelly known to professional cooks as a “terrine.”[…]
Hunting
Deer Hunting
Stealth a critical factor in bow-hunting success
Dan Preaus has enjoyed a good measure of success in the 10 years he has turned to archery hunting, taking 15 deer with his bow. But each successive season teaches him things about hunting in close proximity to the deer he pursues.[…]
Hog Hunting
How to make boudin
Boudin (pronounced BOO-dan) has become a cult food in South Louisiana, and is rapidly penetrating the rest of the state.[…]
Hog Hunting
The making of a hunting and fishing chef
Thirty-three-year-old Mark Falgoust considers himself a “Cajun Chef” even he grew up in Algiers, the portion of New Orleans that lies on the west bank of the Mississippi River.[…]
Hog Hunting
Feral hogs ‘ecological disaster,’ state experts say
Feral hogs do have some friends, but they certainly aren’t located within the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Hunting
Plano soft gun cases get style, function upgrades for 2013
Plano’s soft gun cases have earned a reputation for being practical and fully-functional at an affordable price, and that tradition continues with the 200, 300 and 400 series for 2013.[…]
Columns
Happy hunters
What goes around comes around, and once again the deer season has arrived in the Bayou State.[…]
Deer Hunting
Deer hunters reminded about either-sex tag option for 2013-14 season
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is reminding state hunters the six tags issued with 2013-14 big game licenses include an either-sex tag.[…]
Hunting
Babes in the Woods
For this episode we turned it over to the younguns. They tried their hand at duck hunting and each one got to harvest a doe on camera.[…]
News Breaker
2014 wild turkey season dates approved
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Commission recently approved the 2014 wild turkey season framework, with opening day pegged for March 22.[…]
Apex Predator
The Apex Predator shares hunting tips from a ‘hog wild’ September
I set a goal for myself last month to take down at least one hog on each of the 12 days I planned to hunt in September.[…]
Deer of the Year
Ruston hunter arrows big velvet buck in Tensas Parish
Ruston’s Lane Cox and his hunting buddy Brandon Hearn attach nicknames to the deer they hunt at Winter Quarters Hunting and Fishing Club in Tensas Parish. […]
Deer of the Year
Central hunter arrows 11-pointer in West Feliciana Parish
Dustin Henson is a self-proclaimed trail camera junkie, always monitoring four or five cameras on his 1,500-acre Wakefield lease in West Feliciana Parish.[…]
Deer of the Year
West Monroe hunter arrows 154-inch brute
The skies opened and the bottom fell out the first weekend in October across North Louisiana, as a weather system with accompanying cold front sloshed through. But Bill Petrus, a West Monroe businessman and avid bow hunter, didn’t let that bother him.[…]
Deer Hunting
Safety harness saves West Bank bowhunter from 20-foot fall in Caldwell Parish
Mitchell Franks’ Wednesday afternoon bow hunt started out like countless others he’d experienced as he settled into a 20-foot-high lock-on tree stand in central Caldwell Parish.[…]
Deer of the Year
Ponchatoula hunter takes three-beam West Feliciana Parish buck
The time and effort Michael Marciante spent carefully concealing and brushing a ground blind at his West Feliciana Parish lease over Labor Day weekend paid off pretty quick just before dark on opening day.[…]