Louisiana Sportsman

Youth-only lottery turkey hunt scheduled for Kistatchie National Forest

January 21, 2013 From News Reports

All five Kisatchie National Forest districts will be open for youth-only turkey lottery hunts on March 16 to provide more opportunities for young hunters, the U.S. Forest Service announced.

There are a limited number of hunting slots available: 20 youth hunters will be selected for four of the five districts, with the Caney District only accepting 15 young hunters, the Forest Service said.

The deadline for applying for these hunts is Feb. 1.[…]

Red River WMA lottery youth hunt yields 130-class deer

January 17, 2013 Chris Ginn

Pineville 6th-grader Chloe Slayter has not been in school long enough to learn about the power of three, but she knows about the three bears.[…]

Hunter scores 167 6/8 B&C buck in Avoyelles Parish

January 16, 2013 M.A. Fisher

Hunting on a small piece of land can make deer management difficult.[…]

Pair of Winn Parish bucks fall to father, son on same day from same stand

January 10, 2013 M.A. Fisher

For centuries, fathers and sons have shared hunting experiences that become family folklore – the stories that are told around the Sunday dinner table, at reunions, at holiday time.[…]

Father-daughter time turns into trophy kill when 15-year-old shoots 200-inch buck

January 9, 2013 Andy Crawford

Blane Haygood treasures his time in the hunting stand — not so much because he loves shooting deer but because it’s when he really gets to spend time with his 15-year-old daughter Kendall.[…]

Big deer dubbed ‘Bambi’ killed in Winn Parish

January 3, 2013 Glynn Harris

You have to hand it to Steve Burnum and his 16-year-old son Leyton for sticking with the mission of downing a big buck they’d known about since 2008.[…]

The Broken Bridge Buck

January 3, 2013 Josh Chauvin

My brother joined me for a few days of hunting Red River Wildlife Management Area during the bucks-only season. Rain was in the forecast, but he drove up early for a morning hunt, and we decided to tough it out in our ground blinds.[…]

Determined bowhunter takes Avoyelles Parish 10-point

December 19, 2012 M.A. Fisher

Most seasoned deer hunters have been on a hunt that lasts a couple of days. But how many of them can say they essentially shot, tracked and shot again to kill the same deer over the course of a two-day period?[…]

Foggy hunting trip ends with Vernon Parish trophy deer

December 17, 2012 M.A. Fisher

Call it beginner’s luck or call it fate.

Whatever you call it, James Faulk experienced it on the morning of Dec. 7 in a deer stand near Toledo Bend. Faulk, a 30-year old Erath resident, was hunting that day on his brother Clint’s Vernon Parish lease.[…]

Despite comedy of errors, hunter arrows 205 class buck

December 10, 2012 Glynn Harris

Sometimes even when everything bad imaginable happens, fate smiles on you and bad turns to good. For Casey Young, who hunts his family’s property in Concordia Parish, the good couldn’t have been better on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 13 as he stood over the fallen form of a huge 18-point buck sporting lights-out headgear.[…]

Ban on hunting deer with dogs lifted for Kisatchie National Forest

December 6, 2012 From News Reports

The ban on hunting deer with dogs has been lifted from the season that runs Dec. 15-23, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced Tuesday (Dec. 4). However, permits are required of hunters using dogs to chase deer, the federal agency said.[…]

Another black bear found killed, LDWF reports

December 6, 2012 From News Reports

A black bear was found killed Monday (Dec. 3) in Pointe Coupee Parish, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries announced yesterday (Dec. 6). It is the second bear to be illegally killed in the past week, the LDWF said.[…]

Three Jennings men cited in killing of Thistlethwaite WMA spotted fawn

December 4, 2012 From News Reports

Three Jennings men were cited in connection with the killing a spotted fawn during a Nov. 23 hunting trip to Thistlethwaite Wildlife Management Area, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries said.[…]

Recurve hog and bonus hog

December 4, 2012 Josh Chauvin

My last article featured a hunt during which I chased down and shot two hogs. I was disappointed my camera was switched off when it happened. It just so happened when I least expected it a similar chase ensued while the film was rolling.[…]

Defining Lake Catahoula

December 1, 2012 Jerald Horst

Defining Catahoula is difficult. Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not.[…]

Footsteps of a ghost

December 1, 2012 Jerald Horst

It was a hypnotizingly peaceful afternoon. I shuffled along the banks of Little River, head down, searching intently for a pottery shard, an arrowhead — anything that the area’s first inhabitants might have left behind.

The sun’s rays felt good on my back, but the air still had a cold nip to it from a front that had passed the day before.

The sound of dogs barking in the distance echoed through the bare trees. The occasional cawing of crows seemed especially sharp in the dry air.

Otherwise, there was silence.

I felt rather than heard something behind me on the riverbank. I turned but saw nothing. It happened again. The third time, I barely turned my head and peeked out of one corner of my eye. […]