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Blanco gives anglers, hunters the ol’ one-two
Back when she was Lt. Gov. Blanco, our current governor campaigned for the top job in the state on a platform that included her strong support for Louisiana’s outdoor sports.[…]
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2007 Hunting Gear
Every year, hundreds of new products are introduced to the hunting public. Louisiana Sportsman reviewed some of the top new gear available for deer and waterfowl hunters.[…]
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Cover: August 2007-Hunting
You might think you’re ready for deer season, but there’s a lot more to do than you probably remember.[…]
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Why your semi-auto pistol jams
Each time we teach a concealed-firearms course — and we teach at least one class each month — someone is going to come up to me or my associate instructor and ask us to check out his or her semi-automatic pistol because it keeps “jamming.”[…]
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Team Terrebonne
“I hope you get one just like you one day,” my mother used to scream at me as I was doing such harmless things as knocking over our mailbox with the front bumper as she reached out the window for the mail or shattering the bulb under the ceiling fan in my room with nunchucks that were spinning in rhythm to “Eye of the Tiger.”[…]
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Hutchinson’s book a deer-hunting masterpiece
The dog days.
I’m annually confounded when this time of year rolls around. It’s late July/early August, and a mere gander out the window brings beads of sweat to the brow.[…]
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Speaking Squirrel-ese
Your squirrel call doesn’t work,” I told Shannon Talkington, the inventor of the Mr. Squirrel whistle call.[…]
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Tensas’ Red Carpet Fortnight
The greatest sportsman ever to occupy the White House was Theodore Roosevelt, who served as president from 1901-1909.Roosevelt was a large, barrel-chested man who was equally at ease in high society or the wilds of Africa.[…]
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Switch to ethanol great for La. deer hunters
“You … you … you … ninny!”
— MASH’s Father Mulcahy to Rizzo the cookPoor Rizzo. He thought he was being helpful by painstakingly cutting every kernel of corn away from the ears, and adding some powdered milk to whip up a batch of “creamed corn.”[…]
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Don’t underestimate Bersa .380s
Small, flat-sided semiautomatic pistols have long been popular with law-enforcement officers as hide-away or backup guns to supplement their duty weapons.[…]
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Son of the South
If I didn’t know any better, I would swear that Trey Riley was from Route 4, Liberty, Miss., rather than Franklinton, La. I could imagine him having cousins named Marcel, Odell, Claude, Eugene and Clovis. And it wouldn’t be a stretch to believe he had a coon-hunting monkey tied up behind his house.[…]
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Spring Lagniappe
Chances are that practically every hunter in Louisiana over the age of 40 got started in the hunting game by learning to sneak up on bushytails in the fall. Skills learned during these days helped hunters move on to pursue deer and other more wary game.[…]
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Casull dishes it, if you can take it
Like a spouse in a dysfunctional relationship, I find myself missing the abuse.[…]
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Turkey Tips, Techniques and Tactics
Troy Ruiz eased into position and prepared for battle with a local celebrity gobbler well before dawn early one spring morning. He was prepared to hunt the battle-tested gobbler that had eluded all suitors, including him, for at least four years.[…]
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Up High vs. Down Low
Show me another state with as much diversity north to south as Louisiana has, and I’ll eat my hat.In North Louisiana, from Alexandria to the Arkansas line, folks are called a variety of names, with “redneck” no doubt being the predominant moniker to which we answer.[…]
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“Black” rifles legitimate for hunting
I wasn’t going to participate in the time-hallowed American tradition of “piling on.”[…]