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Spring food plots help provide extra food resources to carry deer through the summer months into fall seasons.

Science + art: How to build the perfect food plot

March 1, 2014 John J. Woods

Are supplemental wildlife food plots essential to deer hunting in Mississippi? Evidence certainly indicates so. […]

Cover: March 2014

March 1, 2014 Mississippi Sportsman

One more hunting season remains before summer arrives, and we give you the calls that will tag your birds. […]

5 calls all turkey hunters should know

March 1, 2014 David Hawkins

Calling is something every hunter can and should conquer. Let’s get a primer on calling from a couple of veteran hunters. […]

How good was squirrel season? Reed Shepard (left) and Peyton "Buck" McKinion stand behind 23 tree rats killed at the King Chekka BoBo hunting camp in Rankin County on Feb. 22.

Small game seasons ending

February 28, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Today is a sad day for many Mississippians, it being the final day of February and the statewide close of the small game hunting season. […]

It is important to refresh your memory with these turkey hunting safety tips before the season opens.

Turkey hunting requires its own safety tips

February 24, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Turkey hunting is fast approaching, and, as a lot of Mississippians can tell you, the birds are already gobbling. […]

Mississippi’s spring turkey season opens March 8 for youth and March 15 for everyone. Until then, turkey hunters have plenty of time to begin scouting.

Don’t ‘over scout’ gobblers

February 21, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

A few hours of preseason preparation can save turkey hunters haunting memories for years to come. A little too much, though, can be very damaging. […]

The impact of the moon phase is a hotly debated subject in many hunting camps.

As regular readers of “Happy Trails” have come to know, I am a trail/scouting camera fanatic, and use the data I derive each season from my web of cameras to tell me when and where deer, and bucks in particular, move on my personal hunting property. […]

The National Wildlife Federation says a new study shows climate change is already beginning to impact wildlife, including whitetails.

Climate change impacting wildlife, study claims

February 16, 2014 Dan Kibler

The National Wildlife Federation is urging sportsmen to do their part to help slow down or reverse climate change, concluding in its latest report “Nowhere to Run: Big Game Wildlife in a Warming World” that many big-game species across North America are already being affected and could be headed for a big fall. […]