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Thriving in the Furnace
According to research, if at least one percent of an area is planted in year-round forages, the plots can have a positive effect on nutrition and quality of white-tailed deer. […]
Year: 2010
Featured Story
Soon-to-be bride nabs her first turkey
When Courtney Kelleher left Huntsville, Ala., on March 25 to obtain her marriage license at the Natchez, Miss., courthouse, the last thing on her mind was turkey hunting. So she had no idea that her first turkey hunt was in the offing. […]
Bass Fishing
Lighting strikes twice for Florence bass angler
March was a very good month for Florence angler Ray Porter, who managed to do something very few fishermen will ever be able to accomplish – catch no one but two 14-pound bass. […]
Featured Story
Hunting tough turkeys in South Mississippi
On April 18, 2003, in Copiah County, Doug Borries harvested Mississippi’s state-record turkey, which scored 79.18 on the National Wild Turkey Federation scale, weighed 24 pounds, 11 ounces, had 11 7/8-inch-long beard and spurs measuring 1-3/4-inches long. Borries also has taken 22 Grand Slam turkeys in 18 consecutive years, and has also taken three Royal Slams, including Mexico’s Gould’s turkey. […]
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Followthescience.org coalition warns of ethanol increase in fuel
The Environmental Protection Agency is set this summer to decide on whether to allow a 50-percent increase in the amount of ethanol in the nation’s gasoline supply, and the implications worry members of a coalition of boating groups who warn that testing will be inadequate to ensure the safe usage of these new (mid-level) forumulations.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., – This summer, the Environmental Protection Agency will decide on whether to allow a 50-percent increase in the amount of ethanol in the nation’s gasoline supply, from the current E10 (or containing 10 percent ethanol) up to E15 (containing 15 percent ethanol) – a move that a broad coalition of consumer groups fears would be devastating to older-model engines.
Featured
Online turkey contest launched
Registered users of MS-Sportsman.com can win official Sportsman gear and Primos hunting equipment in the new Turkey Photo and Video Contests. […]
Content
Now or Never
With spring turkey season going strong and crappie action fast and furious, it is doubtful many people are thinking of doves or dove hunting. […]
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Cover: April 2010
It’s April. If you want to catch a lunker bass, now’s the time to do it, and this issue tells you where. […]
Hunting
Homeowner shoots armed invader
It was a drizzly, miserable December 2009 night in Marrero, a small river town across from New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River. […]
As Big As they Grow
It’s April, and the spawn is on!
It’s April, and it’s the peak of the annual crappie spawn on most lakes in Mississippi. If there were only one month out of the year that a fellow could choose to go crappie fishing, most anglers would pick April. […]
Fishing
Is your inattention killing your battery?
My truck pulls a travel trailer or a boat much of the year, but there are weeks when it just sits in the garage. Thinking it had been two weeks or so since I’d driven it, I figured I’d give it some exercise while running a few errands. […]
Inshore Fishing
April a tale of two months
Many Mississippi Gulf Coast anglers consider a temperature gauge the best tool for catching fish during April. A temperature gauge will tell you the most-abundant and the easiest-to-catch fish on the Gulf Coast and the locations of those fish, and often identify the baits these April fish will prefer to eat. […]