Deer Hunting
Hog wild: Impact of wild hogs on deer
Wild hog numbers are increasing in certain areas of the U.S. and, although not classified as carnivores, they are predatory in that they can locate and consume baby fawns. […]
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Deer-management workshops scheduled
Workshops are scheduled throughout the state to help participants better manage their lands for white-tailed deer, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks announced.
Four workshops, held in conjunction with Mississippi State University, in two-day sets. Participants may register for one or both days. […]
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Managing the data — Part 3
The pursuit by a hunter of trail-camera photo information regarding whitetail buck activity can be a labor intensive project and, as a result, the end product is absolutely what you make it to be.
My personal trail-camera goals revolve primarily around monitoring and documenting buck presence and movement activity on my hunting property before, during and after each deer-hunting season. […]
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Feed deer now with spring plots
May is a good time for planting spring wildlife food plots for white-tailed deer. There are also spin-off residual benefits for other game like wild turkey, quail, dove and even small game like rabbits. […]
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The Life of a Fawn
Spring gives way to warm days as the summer season nears. Pesky insects start to dominate the woodlots and open fields. For the young whitetails that survived the pursuit of predators, now their lives of growing into mature deer begin to unfold. […]
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State offers deer seminars
Successful deer hunters are those who constantly seek to learn more about their quarry. […]
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Managing the data — Part 2
Over the past several years, I have, through trial and error, developed a system that allows me to efficiently deal with multiple trail cameras and memory cards as I use them to monitor deer movement on my farm in west central Mississippi. […]
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Antler Tynes
Dr. Scott Tynes’ father, the late Rev. J.W. Tynes, was the type of man who always knew where the right place was at the right time. […]
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Lots of public land in the area
You don’t have to own land to have a great time taking some eastern Mississippi deer. […]
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Deer Darlene
There can’t possibly exist many recipes for preparing a backstrap better than Deer Darlene. […]
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Big Buck Bounty winners honored
Primitive was a recurring theme Saturday (March 24)at the ninth annual Big Buck Bounty awards ceremony, celebrating a lot of massive racks at the Ag & Forestry Museum in Jackson.
Three of the four winners in the men’s and women’s divisions were taken during Mississippi’s primitive weapon seasons, including the contest’s overall winner, a 192 1/8-inch non-typical buck taken in Marshall County by Calvin Alderson of Olive Branch with a .45-70 rifle. […]
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Managing the data — Part 1
My farm in west-central Mississippi is my personal field laboratory for experimentation with trail camera techniques and practices, as I continue to study and learn about local buck patterns.
When used fully and properly, trail camera data can become one of the most effective tools in a hunter or property manager’s toolbox. This is true not only from an overall deer population survey standpoint, but also from the hunter’s standpoint as one learns how to convert piles of trail camera photos into predictions about deer movement. […]