Bayou Buckmaster
For many outdoor enthusiasts, deer hunting is a hobby.[…]
For many outdoor enthusiasts, deer hunting is a hobby.[…]
The sound of gunfire could be heard from Grand Cheniere to Roanoke Friday morning as hunters took aim at more teal than any could ever remember seeing. […]
The cool front that blew through Louisiana last week caused the doves to scatter a little bit. […]
In addition to opportunities on several wildlife management areas, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is making three private fields available to dove hunters on opening day.[…]
This fall’s hunting should be hotter than the summer’s weather.[…]
You get what you pay for. That is an axiom I have repeated and firmly believed all my life — particularly when it came to choosing optics for a rifle.[…]
Death is inevitable. Like a cloud, it hangs ever on the horizon. On this sea of life, all living things are like little boats being swept along by a great current, its force irresistible and its flow unimpeded.[…]
Marck “Doc” Smythe was sitting in a tallow tree in the Cameron Parish marsh, waiting on the sun to push past the horizon and, hopefully, for a deer to walk by. He was psyched at the thought of sticking a deer.[…]
Each year, as club president of a hunting lease I share with several friends, I am required to record and report to the land company we lease from deer harvest information.[…]
For all but a few lucky hunters, last year’s duck season along coastal Louisiana can only be described as “the season that wasn’t.”[…]
Hunters who go after deer with bow and arrow agree there is nothing like it. A gun hunter can sit comfortably in a padded swivel chair out of the weather in a covered box stand wearing jeans and sneakers, snacking on chips and soda pop, listening to a football game on his portable radio — and he has a legitimate chance of putting the crosshairs on a buck at 200 yards.[…]
One year after a hurricane hit each coastal corner of Louisiana like a blast from a double-barreled shotgun fired from the Gulf of Mexico, habitat and the wildlife that use it are the focus of biologists and hunters, particularly on areas that are open to the public.[…]
A little planning now goes a long way during hunting season.[…]
When people pull up in the driveway of our rural home, they see a long, large, white tube supported about waist height out in the pasture. If they are visiting for the first time, invariably, they ask what it is.[…]
If you don’t want to invest in good gear, don’t ever borrow it. Don’t even let your grubby little fingers ever touch it.[…]
What do shade, loose cotton clothing and a koozie holding a cold beverage mean in July for Louisianans?[…]