The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) continued to rebuild the management of its wildlife division by naming veteran deer biologist William T. McKinley as Deer Program Coordinator.
Ground proving bucks means harvesting bucks that you believe meet your minimum goals by collecting their lower jaw bones. […]
Mississippi deer hunters would see their antlerless deer opportunities cut significantly during the 2017-18 season, if rules set last week by the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks get final proposed approval. […]
A year ago in the March, 2016 installment of Happy Trails I announced that the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) reported in their annual Whitetail Report that Mississippi had been deemed No. 1 in the entire country for mature buck harvest. I mean really, in the world of whitetail deer hunting, being No. 1 overall in such a category is a big, big deal. […]
Pittman Edwards had the biggest deer but Josh Smith of Brandon walked away with the grand prize exotic hunt at the recent awards breakfast for the 2016-17 Big Buck Bounty Contest at McLain Lodge in Fannin. […]
The deer hunter flips up the collar of his fleece jacket to better protect his neck from the chilly, late-afternoon breeze, remaining alert, hoping that an unsuspecting doe will meander by before dark. Success would be two-pronged, as he needs venison for his freezer, and his camp needs a few more does harvested to reach the year’s quota. […]
As you read this installment of Happy Trails, the 2016–2017 deer season is either late in the fourth quarter or time has already expired.
It is now time to start planning for next season. […]
Action had slowed considerably on Sylvester Badeaux’s 200-acre lease in Claiborne County — so much so that the Harvey, La. hunter had contemplated skipping the final days of deer season last month. […]
It’s been a strange year, in terms of big bucks. Sure, there have been a number of really nice deer killed. […]
As we go into 2017, most of us have had the good fortune of sitting quietly alone multiple times this season in the Deep South winter woods. […]
Russ McVey feels there is no more important time for deer hunters to work on concealment than during January. […]
The drought of 2016, lasting from the summer long into autumn, could act as the perfect case in the argument for supplemental feeding of deer in Mississippi. […]
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