Columns
Challenge produces top CENLA shooters
Seven years ago, several generations of soldiers met in a room of the New Llano Police Department, and talk turned to hunting and shooting.[…]
Hunting
The Boat Doctor
It’s time to get your mud motor ready
Duck season opens this month, and I was wondering how many of you have thought of doing any maintenance on your duck hunting boats and motors.[…]
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Hope for the Hopeless
The birds turned at the blat of the call, pinwheeling in flight and heading straight for the spread of decoys set just outside the blind. They stayed slightly out of shotgun range and made a pass by the setup, continuing on behind the hidden hunters[…]
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Shot to the Heart
Make your first shot count.
That’s good advice that I absolutely never follow.[…]
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Opening-Day Doozies
The state’s public lands offer diverse duck-hunting experiences, but having success is far different than at any duck club in existence. For one, permanent blinds generally aren’t permitted, and that makes for a lot more work.[…]
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Starting with Squirrels
Forget beards and racks. If you want your kid to really love hunting, take him on a squirrel outings, and teach him these techniques.[…]
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Slime Sloppers
That 10-foot surge of salt water from Katrina over our marshes wasn’t enough it seems. As lagniappe, this year we get a low river and drought — just in case some grass might have even thought about growing back.[…]
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T-Minus-8 Bucks
“When a big, old buck shows up, you’ve got about 8 seconds to get on him and pull the trigger.” I first heard that theory amidst the smoky, chilly air around a deer camp fire pit.[…]
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Welcome Crowds
Aaron Toups had laid claim to the stretch of woods around him by nestling in his tree stand long before the first rays of dawn vaulted over the horizon, but he saw something that would make most hunters cringe as the forests around him brightened.[…]
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Cover: October 2006
Learn the techniques in this issue to put a wall-hanger on the ground this year.[…]
Columns
Revolvers best fit for rookie shooters
The lady was smiling, and her husband was positively beaming as she showed me her choice of handguns for concealed self-protection.[…]
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Happy Trails
You know he’s out there. You’ve seen the signs he’s left behind: large tracks, rubs on trees the size of your leg, scrapes the size of a wash tub.[…]
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Squirrel Starters
It’s as real to me today as it was when it happened more than half a century ago. When my dad told me to pull on my boots, grab my jacket and come with him, I knew what that meant, especially if it happened on a Saturday morning in October.[…]
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Needles on the Noodle
Hunt deer in Southeast Louisiana’s piney woods, and you hunt the most thoroughly abominable deer hunting terrain on the continent. The abominations are many and varied.First off, low deer numbers per acre.[…]
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Big, Bad Bodcau
Bobby Taylor gave up hunting in the 1980s when all of the land on which he had chased deer for years was leased out. “We used to be able to hunt wherever we wanted,” the Haughton hunter said.[…]
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Seed Snatchers
Toward the end of our most recent summer, sleepy-eyed residents lying in bed watching the 10 o’clock news perked up their ears at the mention of four words seldom uttered in the Bayou State: “late August cold front.”[…]