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Using your GPS to improve your hunting
Recently I covered how to improve your fishing by using your GPS unit. Now, I will discuss how to improve your hunting by using your GPS unit.[…]
January 2015
Columns
Louisiana sawfish are just memories
It’s not likely that many Louisiana coastal anglers give sawfish a thought. In fact, it’s not likely that anyone under the age of 50 even knows we ever had a sawfish population in the state.[…]
Columns
Hunting no longer a male fraternity
I can remember the scene like it was yesterday: A wife of one of the hunting club members showed up around lunchtime, and another member walked out of the bunk room in his tighty whities.[…]
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Search and destroy — Group forms to exterminate Louisiana’s wild hogs
The hydraulics on the fork lift whined as it picked up the last pallet load of dead hogs.[…]
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Cooperative Approach
I’m always hesitant to vocalize that burping sound I hear so many television hunters make whenever they want to stop a deer.[…]
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Red River Revel — Duck-hunting tactics for Richard K. Yancey WMA
The air was so cold it felt like icicles stabbing my lungs every time I inhaled. The Wilkins gang was launching their surface-drive boat off the Red River levee into a 1,200-acre greentree reservoir on Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Mangement Area.[…]
Features
Calling all ducks — Top 9 duck-calling tips
Have you put the time into truly learning how to call ducks into shotgun range? These hunters tell how to get the most out of your time.[…]
Bass Fishing
Paddling Spots — Top streams for Kentucky bass
“You gotta be outcha mind!”
Artie was stuck on his favorite quip. Any suggestion from anyone in Doc’s den that festive evening provoked it, as Artie rolled his eyes and grimaced in mock horror.[…]
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Saving the best for last — Late-season tips for Northeast Louisiana duck hunting
Four big, curious greenhead mallards broke off the flight pattern from a group of 20 or so high-flying ducks and circled high above the decoy spread.[…]
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Finish Strong — Late-season duck-hunting tips
The promise and optimism of the duck season had faded as fall transitioned into winter.[…]
Hunting
The Maniac Series
The Wood N’ Stream Maniac Series hunting boots are some of the lightest outdoor boots ever created, weighing less than two pounds each.[…]
Hunting
Steady Form
Steady Form helps hunters stay consistent with their form while trying to make awkward shots, whether through the windows of a blind or at a sever downward angle.[…]
Hunting
Big Game Gut Glove
The Big Game Gut Glove by Uncle Freddie’s provides a liquid-proof barrier during field dressing, protecting a hunter and his or her clothes from stains and blood-borne diseases.[…]
Hunting
Ozonics HR-200
Unlike other scent-control products that try to mask human scent, Ozonics eliminates a hunter’s downwind scent zone with airborne, scent-transforming ozone, so deer won’t be able to smell a person in the area.[…]
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Smoke signals — Purists keep muzzleloader tradition alive
First, there were reproduction muzzleloaders. Then came in-lines with synthetic stocks and 9-power scopes, followed by .45-70s, .444 Marlins, and .35 Whelens.[…]
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Simple solution — Stop complicating your late-season deer hunting
Every time I get a chance to chat with Warren Womack, I learn something new about deer hunting.[…]