As stated, this document is good tool for all deer hunters in Mississippi regardless of whether they exclusively hunt private lands or on state wildlife management areas, but is an absolute must for WMA deer hunters. […]
At the top of that list is the most important for WMA hunters. If they read nothing else in the entire report, they should be certain to study the data for the WMAs they hunt. […]
Apply for WMA permits during the month of August. If you are selected, you will be notified by email. […]
Expanded hunting opportunities are included in Year 2 of draw deer hunting at Barnett Reservoir, the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District announced. […]
It’s summer in Mississippi, and with it comes the annual warning from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks:
Leave deer fawns alone! […]
All deer hunters have a lot in common, including the consistent desire to harvest a nice buck for bragging rights with friends and a wall display at home or at the office. […]
Anticipation is a deer hunter’s mantra, as important to the enjoyment of the sport as pulling a trigger. […]
“One of the most frequently asked questions about joining the DMAP program is ‘what do we get out of it?” said Lann Wilf, the North Region Biologist. “It certainly is a fair question since we are asking these guys to spend an entire hunting season collecting data and sending it in for analysis.” […]
As DMAP Cooperators will quickly learn, recording, delivering and assessing deer harvest data is crucial to program maintenance. Quality deer management cannot happen without essential data being collected and analyzed. Paramount among the deer harvest data fields is determining the ages of the deer taken on the DMAP property each season. […]
Pitching the idea of harvesting antlerless deer is still a hard sell. In all the years of teaching hunter safety education even though as I counseled the participants that the course was not a “deer hunting” course, inevitably the discussions often turned to those subjects. […]
Basically they want better deer hunting where they hunt. This usually translates into the desire to grow and harvest bigger bucks, balance their deer herd to achieve a better buck-doe ratio, increase deer observations and take more direct control over the management fate of the deer they hunt. Naturally this is often much more easily talked about than accomplished. […]
Like it or hate it, the biggest change in decades involving deer hunting in Mississippi will start during the 2014-15 seasons proposed by the Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. […]
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