Other Hunting
Binoculars are essential equipment
Essential equipment for squirrel hunters who may or may not use a dog includes a good, quality pair of binoculars.[…]
Hunting
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Rolling with the punches – Duck-hunting tactics for late-season success
Picture this. You’ve had a good opening to the duck season. But now the season has been underway a while and you haven’t had any cold fronts or strong south winds to bring in new birds or shake things up. They sky is blue-bird clear, and has been for days.[…]
Deer Hunting
Smokepole ’em in January
Public lands offer some excellent primitive-weapons hunting this month.[…]
Other Hunting
Choosing the right load
Squirrels are abundant statewide and found in every terrain, from piney woods to bottomland hardwoods to coastal marshes.[…]
Sidebars
The learning curve
Is a popup blind on a boat the answer for you? When they first made their appearance, lots of hunters wrote them off tersely, with “They don’t work.”[…]
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Tracking a Booner — One DeSoto Parish deer became a Boone & Crockett buck
Wildlife research is conducted to learn information about a particular species. Where does it live? What does it eat? What is its breeding chronology? What are its habits?[…]
Sidebars
Surface drives are fishing boats too
Boats equipped with surface drive engines were not long ago seen as an oddity in anything but duck-hunting situations.[…]
Sidebars
Souping up surface drives
The power plant of choice for surface drive motors is the 35-horsepower Briggs & Stratton engine. These stock engines can be modified to improve their performance, something done every day by Andy Johnston and his crew at The Boat Doctor Inc. in Metairie.[…]
NEW PRODUCTS
FLOATSTAND
Add life-like motion to your spread with the FLOATSTAND, a floating platform designed to support your spinning wing decoy in a variety of water depths and hunting situations.[…]
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Cover: January 2013
You won’t believe what Casey Young went through to kill this 205-inch deer. Story on page 12.[…]
Hunting
Pulsar Expert LRF Binocular
Featuring a high 8x magnification, a rugged body construction and easy-to-use controls, the Pulsar Expert Laser Range Finder Binocular ensures you’ll get a brighter image which can be seen even in unfavorable weather.[…]
Hunting
Squirrel Talk
Listen, you can hear two gray squirrels and one fox squirrel barking,” I said, whispering to my son after making a young-squirrel-in-distress call.[…]
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Hot Redheads and Delta Cakes
Over the years, with each generation, there always seems to be a good-looking redheaded actress that captivates audiences everywhere.[…]
Deer Hunting
The pressure’s on: Public deer hunting tactics from Louisiana Sportsman
Russell Scarbrough got off work at 6 p.m., too late to actually do any hunting. But he went ahead and drove to the public tract of land he planned to hunt the next few days and slept in the truck.
The next morning, Scarbrough was up early and heading into the woods.
“I really had no clue where I was going to hunt,” he said.[…]
Deer of the Year
Long shot puts 165-class Lincoln Parish deer on the ground
As a pastor, 37-year-old Rev. Gevan Spinney has often had to counsel people with problems. The probability of having success with some difficult situations, no doubt, could be considered long shots at best.
On the morning of Nov. 16, Spinney took another long shot, one he later verified by his range finder at 347 yards —a shot that brought down a trophy 12-point buck that scored 165 7/8 inches Boone & Crockett.[…]
Columns
Thoughts on the science of trail cameras
Things have really changed over the past 40-odd years when it comes to deer hunting. There would certainly be some debate regarding certain aspects of the sport, but for the most part — in my humble opinion — we as deer hunters have never had it better than we do right now, especially here in the Deep South.[…]