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Cover: March 2008
Paul Brown dropped this massive main-frame 12-point buck on Jan. 16 in Holmes County. […]
Year: 2008
Hunting
Blinds have definite advantages
They say if you can see the sun glint off the eyeballs of a game animal that you must be really close to it. […]
As Big As they Grow
Flat-lining still works on crappie
Funny how things have evolved in crappie fishing, isn’t it? I mean, if you’re like me, you’ve tried lots of different things to catch a white perch. […]
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Trophy Toms
Don Marascalco moved stealthily in the pre-dawn darkness shortly before daylight last April. The veteran turkey hunter had spotted a mature gobbler and a large harem of 24 hens in a pasture on a previous scouting trip near Meridian. […]
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Natchez Knuckleball
If you think your 13-year-old daughter is temperamental and mercurial, you haven’t ever spent much time with a Florida-strain largemouth bass. […]
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It’s Crappie Season
As many crappie anglers know, March ushers in what the rest of the world refers to as “crappie season.” This can be a time of feast or famine with the major determining factors being wind and weather. […]
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Deer of the Year
The recently closed deer-hunting season might not have been the coldest on record, but hunters still managed to knock down some genuine beasts. […]
Bass Fishing
Going Small to Get Big
It continually amazes me how things have changed since the days of my youth. Faced with the modern-day diversions of cell phones, video games, text messages, personal computers and myspace accounts, it is a wonder kids of today ever look to the outdoors for entertainment. […]
Other Hunting
You don’t lose gun rights in traffic stop
“Do I look like a thug?” The gentleman who asked this question was dressed casually and stylishly. He looked like a middle-class male, about 40 years of age. No obvious tattoos, he had short-cropped hair. Tall, average weight, well-spoken, to my eyes he looked like anything but a street criminal, and I said so. […]
Hunting
Rabbits wrap up the winter season
Whoa daddy, the hunting season isn’t over yet. Now is the perfect time for some quality small-game hunting and for squirrel or rabbit hunters to dominate the woods and fields. Right now through the end of February, small-game hunters can capitalize on the best hunting conditions of the entire season. This is especially true for rabbit hunting across the Magnolia State. […]
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Standin’ Around
“Get on it!” The cry rings out from the dense undergrowth laid out in front of the shadowy figure leaning slightly against a young plantation pine. Ever since daylight broke, the lone hunter has been on stand watching the cold morning world come to life. […]
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Cover: February 2008
Shelby Tate, 11, poses with the new state-record non-typical buck, which he shot in December in Adams County […]