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Deer of the Year, Part II
Up-and-down temperatures drove some deer hunters crazy, but the weather didn’t seem to affect the big-buck kill. Here are the stories about how some hunters scored big.[…]
Hunting
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QDMA report a deer delight
Deer season is over. But for those of us who live for the months of October, November, December and January, deer season never ends.[…]
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2009 Turkey Season Forecast
With the 2009 spring turkey season opening next month, what areas of the state might have the best hunting opportunities based upon the annual poult production surveys?[…]
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Cover: February 2009-Hunting
Echoes of trophy deer and hopes of trophy trout – it’s all in this issue.[…]
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Turkey Tracks on Small Tracts
Opening day of the 2008 season, I was set-up in my ground blind on a wheat/clover patch I had planted with two sorghum strips during the spring of 2007.[…]
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Inexpensive scopes offer high quality
If you shoot and hunt with one of the new compact magnum cartridges, smaller, lower-powered scopes cosmetically match your rifle better.[…]
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Good for the goose
Bobby Belaire received a call last February from a rice farmer, and he couldn’t believe the opportunity he was offered.[…]
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2008-09 Deer of the Year
Big bucks fell across the state this season as cooler winter weather seemed to really get deer moving. Here are the stories of some of the year’s biggest bucks.40-acre beast.[…]
News Breaker
January duck numbers lowest on record
Waterfowl population estimates in Louisiana’s coastal zone below U.S. Highway 90 and on Catahoula Lake[…]
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Registration not a fact of gun purchase
In the last 30 days, I have fielded six questions from people who have either bought a gun from an individual, inherited a gun or were given a gun by someone.[…]
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Cover: January 2009
Brad Pourciau has had great success using decoys to lure in late-season bucks.[…]
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Swan Song
If only Pelayo were as punctual as wood ducks. The exasperating two-winged creatures keep a rigid daily schedule, flying exactly five minutes before and five minutes after legal shooting time.[…]
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Better Late Than Never
The rhythmic whistle of mallard wings slicing bits of air from the sky could be heard as they nervously circled high above. Too high.[…]
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Attention Deficit Deer
It’s no big secret that our collective attention spans are growing shorter. While the Internet is largely responsible for us not being able to digest information unless it is written in brief bullets, some say USA Today is what started this trend.[…]
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Positively Primitive
If you failed to tag a deer during the regular gun season or if you need a deer or two for sausage, don’t fret. There is still opportunity during the late Primitive Firearms Season.[…]
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Help Wanted
“Help Wanted” signs are sure to be scarce in the near future if economic forecasts prove true.[…]