2012 - Page 4 of 56 - Mississippi Sportsman

Wil Moore, 24, of Madison and his 150-pound, 150-inch trophy "short buck" taken Nov. 28 in the Big Black River bottoms of Hinds County.

150-inch, 150-pound buck raises ‘short deer’ discussion

December 6, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Normally, a 150-inch 9-point taken from the Big Black River bottoms of Hinds County would not get a lot of attention, but, then, nothing about Wil Moore’s buck is normal. […]

150-inch, 150-pound buck raises ‘short deer’ discussion

December 6, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Normally, a 150-inch 9-point taken from the Big Black River bottoms of Hinds County would not get a lot of attention, but, then, nothing about Wil Moore’s buck is normal. […]

Mike Palamone of New Orleans with the 11-point buck he killed Nov. 25 at his private club in Simpson County. The 248-pound deer had an extra right main beam that adds 14 inches of character to the rack.

Unique point makes for extra special buck

December 5, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Michael Palamone is resigned to the fact that his Simpson County monster buck won’t reach Boone & Crockett status, but he shrugs it off with a now popular adage. […]

This Jefferson County club’s buck-management plan has impressive results.

Now or Never?

December 5, 2012 Todd Masson

Ronnie Corkern had to wait only one year to see the value of quality-buck management. […]

Courtney Bennett used her knowledge that running bucks go to the water to try to throw dogs to kill this buck during a recent dog hunt.

Late-season wet weather best time to run deer dogs

December 1, 2012 Chris Ginn

Kenny Shiyou and Bubba Bennett are going to start dog hunting just as soon as the season opens during November, but they don’t really expect it to get cranking until the last week of dog season. […]

Golden’s go-to bait during the winter is a made-over Sassy Shad body rigged on a 1/10-ounce football head jig.

When asked which tactics and baits he preferred to land big Grenada crappie during the winter drawdown months, Lakeway Archery & Outfitters owner Jason Golden didn’t mince words. In fact, he has just one favorite tactic and one favorite bait. […]

Lakeway has been a sportsman’s icon in the Grenada Lake area for over 20 years and has evolved from a convenience store and bait shop to a full service hunting and fishing headquarters.

Lakeway Archery & Outfitters

December 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Over 20 years ago, as an enterprising young sportsman, Jason Golden opened Lakeway Sporting Goods as a convenience store that sold fishing supplies on the side. […]

Jason Golden of Lakeway Sporting Goods in Grenada suggested another look at Grenada Lake was in order to reveal a winter drawdown crappie fishery like no other.

Crappie fishing hotspots — Grenada Lake Encore

December 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Back in March of this year, the Mississippi Sportsman Crappie Hotspot Series made a stop at the official home of the 3-pound crappie, Grenada Lake, and provided 10 hotspots for spring crappie fishing and tips on how to catch them. […]

Bore-tips

December 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

Swab-its has developed a variety of bore cleaning swabs that can clean firearms in 2-inch, 3-inch, 4-inch, 5-inch, 6-inch and 9-inch handle lengths. […]

One of the Rat Pack Duckers sets early morning decoys. Few moments are as exciting to waterfowl hunters as the sunrise breaking over a duck pond.

The Rat Pack — Young hunters ban together to hunt Mississippi’s public ducks

December 1, 2012 John J. Woods

In a state full of hunters dominated by buck fever, high-powered rifles, high-tech compound bows, food plots, rubs, scrapes, proprietary brands of camouflage, family deer camps, Bad Boy Buggies and big-buck bragging rights, would a group of young guns forego all that tradition to take up duck hunting? It makes one wonder just what they were thinking. […]