Deer Hunting
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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Deer Hunting
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.[…]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Second split better so far, guides look for more ducks with cold blast
It appears as though Old Man Winter arrived in earnest, making for good weather conditions to kickoff the second split of the 2009-10 duck season. However, persistent rainfall has continued to hamper some hunters’ efforts, with many of the state’s rivers at or near flood stage.[…]
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Proper bedding key to accuracy
I couldn’t figure it out. Usually, when a rifle is acting up, you can get a rhyme or reason out of the pattern, or “group,” it is throwing on the paper.[…]
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Shut up to call ducks
Ducks don’t talk to each other nearly as much as hunters think, especially during the late season. Just as a roomful of people will migrate away from a loud, obnoxious guy who tries to dominate the conversation, ducks will exhibit the same behavior.[…]
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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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Bayou Bunny Blast
I could hear the high-pitched yodels of the beagles heading my way along the canal spoil bank. I chose my spot carefully, not just because it would give me a clear shot at a rabbit ahead of the dogs, but it allowed me to also keep an eye on my buddy and my sons back at the boat.[…]
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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.[…]
Deer Hunting
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.[…]
Deer Hunting
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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Waterfowl Really Plentiful
Kaploosh! The big greenhead’s splashdown sounded like a pickle bucket hitting the water. After Pearl, Drew Keeth’s 7½-year-old black lab delivered the handsome bird to hand, Keeth added it to slings already groaning with bluewing teal, greenwing teal, gadwall, pintails, wigeon, another mallard and thrown in for variety, a couple of shovelers.[…]
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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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Effective duck calling
There is a big difference between “Contest Calling” and “Blind calling.” Here are the dos and don’ts for effective duck calling.[…]
Deer Hunting
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.[…]