Field Reports
How to clean and cook a squirrel
Squirrel hunting season is going strong, offering up fast action and tasty meals for hunters who also know how to cook them.[…]
Hunting
Hunting
Louisiana Operation Game Thief awards $4,200 to tipsters
Louisiana Operation Game Thief Inc. awarded $4,200 to residents statewide at its meeting on Feb 6, in Baton Rouge.[…]
Field Notes
It’s time to pattern your shotgun for turkey season
Turkey season is coming up, so it’s time to pattern your shotgun with the right combination of choke tube and load size.[…]
NEW PRODUCTS
AVIAN-X HDR Turkey Decoys
Avian-X has debuted their HDR turkey decoys, which are beautiful, rubber-molded bodies that look like they’re ready to gobble.[…]
Newsletters
Avoyelles Parish hunter bags rare leucistic teal
Todd Couvillion of Darrow killed a rare leucistic green-winged teal on a late-January morning in an Avoyelles Parish rice field.[…]
Deer of the Year
Five running buddies key Gaspard to big buck
Nikki Gaspard killed an 11-point Bienville Parish buck that always had five does accompanying him on Jan. 23.[…]
Deer of the Year
Calhoun woman drops big Madison Parish trophy
Kim Greer of Calhoun killed a 240-pound, 11-point trophy buck while at her hunting club in Madison Parish on Jan. 16.[…]
Deer of the Year
Deer of the Year 2020-21
Since deer season cranked up last fall, Louisiana Sportsman has detailed the stories of almost 60 big bucks harvested across the Bayou State.[…]
Deer of the Year
He thought it was a big 10, but a trophy 8-point will do
An avid bowhunter, Joey Woodard of Rosepine took this big Natchitoches Parish 8-point buck with his bow on Jan. 22.[…]
Deer Hunting
Plant food plots late, love them year-round
Winter grasses, clovers and chickory planted late in the winter can give your deer herd a jump-start on spring growth.[…]
Deer of the Year
Two trophy bucks taken from same stand 15 years apart
Hunter Bordelon killed a 12-point Avoyelles Parish brute on the same box stand that he took another trophy fifteen years earlier.[…]
Deer of the Year
Bossier City hunter kills huge 10-point buck
When Colton Kyle of Bossier City got his first look at a big 10-point buck he’d been observing on trail cams for two years, he wasted no time, killing the deer with one shot.[…]
Newsletters
Duck season met expectations
Most Louisiana hunters have shared similar experiences this season, with low duck numbers and only spotty successes.[…]
Deer Hunting
Reader Report: Catahoula Parish trophy
Tyler Bowen of Lafayette took a 8-point Catahoula Parish trophy buck that scored 145 3/8 gross with his bow.[…]
Deer Hunting
Foti family scores “trifecta” at Winter Quarters
The Foti family from Lafayette scored an impressive “triple play” Dec. 18 in Tensas Parish, downing three bucks.[…]
Columns
Plant trees for your deer
A good forest survey or inventory will tell you what trees make up your forest and what species you might want to plant for deer.[…]