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Magellan eXplorist

December 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

Featuring easy-to-use menus, a built-in camera and a 3-inch color touchscreen, the Magellan eXplorist 510 Marine Edition provides boaters with navigation charts and data for thousands of U.S. lakes. […]

Cover: December 2012

December 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

Shane Ragon had to do more than sit a stand to ambush this monster buck. […]

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. […]

In recent years, the tradition of hunting squirrel with dogs has only been maintained by a small number of dedicated hunters.

Delta WMA

December 1, 2012 M.A. Fisher

The Delta National Forest is located in West-central Mississippi near Vicksburg, and it’s an area popular with many hunters. […]

Goose numbers are up in Canada, and this season we can expect to see a good amount of snows, blues and specklebellies along the Mississippi Delta.

Scouting critical to specklebelly goose hunting success

December 1, 2012 John E. Phillips

Sartain and his friends burn plenty of gas riding through the Mississippi counties in which they hunt, looking for large flocks of geese, especially, specklebellies. Once they find concentrations of birds, they start patterning the movements of the flock. […]

When you have a clean field like this one, you’ll need about 60 Avery Outdoors Full Body Specklebelly Goose decoys to hide three hunters. If you have an additional hunter, add two-dozen more specklebelly decoys to your spread when hunting a clean field.

Hunters welcomed!

December 1, 2012 John E. Phillips

Since geese are so destructive to agriculture and completely can destroy crops like winter wheat, most landowners welcome goose hunters with open arms. […]

Squirrel hunting with dogs adds a social aspect to the sport.

Barked — Why squirrel hunting with dogs might be the way to go

December 1, 2012 M.A. Fisher

While some hunters choose to sneak around, these two veteran squirrel hunters take to the woods with the abandon of playground kids. […]

Muddy Water Camo out of Madison has exploded on the national waterfowl hunting scene.

The right camo

December 1, 2012 John J. Woods

What could be a more-natural surrounding sitting out in a flooded field duck hunting blind than water, mud, cattails and corn stalks? That’s what Steve Maloney thought after duck hunting in marshes and flooded fields for 30 years. […]

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. […]

Evinrude's 135-hp E-Tec engine is perfect for shallow-draft boats.

Evinrude adds 135-hp outboard to E-Tec line

November 30, 2012 Jerry Dilsaver

On Nov. 27, Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) introduced the newest horsepower model available in the Evinrude E-TEC outboard engine line-up, the 135 HO. BRP dealers have been authorized to accept orders with delivery beginning in January 2013. […]

Hinds County's Mona Owens killed this 150-inch deer while hunting near Utica the day after Thanksgiving.

Copiah County trophy buck downed

November 30, 2012 John J. Woods

Often a hunter that has just collected a huge-trophy class buck comments that it was their “buck of a lifetime.” And Mona Owens was no different when she laid out a huge deer the day after Thanksgiving. […]

Opening day of the 2010 primitive weapons season was sure good to Dwight Schaffer of Tylertown, who killed this 190-inch, 19-point Walthall County non-typical with his new CVA .35 Whelen centerfire rifle purchased two weeks before the season.

Primitive season opens Saturday, a day early

November 30, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

If you plan to go deer hunting on Saturday, the first day of December, take note: Due to the 2012 calendar, there is a change in the usual hunting season schedule. […]