Hunting
Realtree Xtra Camo
Realtree Xtra and Realtree Xtra Green, the new breakthrough camo designs from Realtree, give hunters extra effectiveness in the woods.[…]
Hunting
Hunting
Picatinny Rail Adaptor
The Picatinny Rail Adaptor from Redring fits on any tactical shotgun or rifle with a Picatinny rail, quickly mounting on the rail platform with just two screws.[…]
News Breaker
Another season of spotty duck hunting comes to a close
Over the weekend, many East Zone hunters were greeted with fog and temperatures reflective of a nice late March morning when they headed to their blinds. […]
Columns
A big-bore revolver hog hunt
I was sitting on an East Texas pipeline, cradling my 7 1/2-inch Ruger Super Redhawk in my lap, watching a pile of corn that had been scattered about the area and trampled with hundreds of hog tracks.[…]
Other Hunting
Late-Season Squirrels
From the piney woods of the north to the alluvial Mississippi River basin’s bottomland hardwoods to the coastal marshes — all across Louisiana there is a certain quietness that seems to take over in late winter.[…]
Deer of the Year
Red River WMA gives up huge buck
Hunting public land takes a bit of extra work. That’s a lesson Trent Boudreaux learned when he first started hunting Red River Wildlife Management Area as a teenager in 1998.[…]
Deer of the Year
Hunter’s wish comes true with trophy Tensas Parish buck
Kyle O’Neal of West Monroe has followed the big-buck articles in Louisiana Sportsman, texting comments to the author that always end with statements similar to “I wish I could get one big enough for you to write about.”[…]
Deer of the Year
Red River WMA gives up huge buck
Hunting public land takes a bit of extra work. That’s a lesson Trent Boudreaux learned when he first started hunting Red River Wildlife Management Area as a teenager in 1998.[…]
Apex Predator
Tracking heroics on my brother’s first Louisiana buck
My younger brother has been joining me on a few public-land gun hunts over the past few seasons on Red River WMA.[…]
Columns
To catch a poacher
One of the more memorable cases I recall working was during the mid-80s in Rapides Parish. It all started when the LDWF district lieutenant received a call from a state police narcotics officer in early September.[…]
Hunting
Hunting seasons to reopen on three WMAs flooded by recent heavy rains
Hunting seasons on three wildlife management areas closed earlier this month due to high water levels will reopen tomorrow (Jan. 23), the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced today.[…]
Hunting
Brush Busting
Growing up in Michigan, I cut my hunting molars beginning with rabbits. I often like to say that Michigan is the Sportsman’s Paradise north, but only as a close runner-up to the one here in the south — especially where rabbits are concerned.[…]
Columns
Aging bucks on the hoof
Two of the cornerstone tenants of modern day “quality deer management” are herd monitoring and herd management.[…]
Deer Hunting
Mississippi state-record bow buck certified
Kevin Medlin didn’t have time to think about such things as rewriting Mississippi’s archery record book when a monster buck walked out of a thicket 50 yards from his stand on Nov. 11 in DeSoto County.[…]
Deer of the Year
Sterlington hunter takes 150-class Union Parish buck
Some deer-kill stories come under wild circumstances — bucks that are bagged during storms, kills that precede a search that lasts more than a day or ones that conclude a decades-long drought of not even seeing a buck.[…]
Deer of the Year
Red River WMA lottery youth hunt yields 130-class deer
Pineville 6th-grader Chloe Slayter has not been in school long enough to learn about the power of three, but she knows about the three bears.[…]