The ultimate success factor to turkey hunting is proper call selection. Of course, their proper use is assumed. This selection or narrowing process should be done well ahead of the opening week of the spring turkey season. […]
Nothing speaks to the soul of a turkey hunter like the booming gobble of a Mississippi longbeard. He hears it as an irresistible challenge that must be answered, at whatever cost. […]
Hunting began with a bang for Bogue Chitto’s Kolby Byrd when he arrowed a 150-inch 9-point on Oct. 6, and that big kill heralded the beginning of what turned into the best season since 2007. […]
Jackson Palmer and Jared Hester won the grand-prize round of the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam photo contests. The two MS-Sportsman.com users’ photos were chosen by the site’s users.
The two contest winners earned berths in the grand-prize round of voting by winning monthly contests. […]
MS-Sportman.com users Jackson Palmer and Justin Bankston took top honors in the final monthly edition of the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam photo contests. Palmer and Bankston now move on to the grand-prize round of voting that begins this afternoon.
Each of the users will receive an Official Sportsman Gear prize pack that includes a Sportsman T-shirt, a decal and a free one-year subscription to Mississippi Sportsman magazine. […]
Cleaning a deer might be second hand for veteran hunters, but it’s often one of the things that new hunters struggle with. […]
Now in its 15th year, the Cutt’n and Strutt’n DVD series from Hunter’s Specialties continues to bring exciting turkey-hunting action as the pro staff and friends hunt gobblers across the country.
It’s time for MS-Sportsman.com users to choose the final monthly winners in the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam contests. The winner from each of these contests will move on to the final round of voting in which the grand prize winner will be announced. […]
Raymond’s David Barton had had a great season already. His wife Roxie and 10-year-old daughter Cloe had popped their first bucks, and his 8-year-old son had put down a doe. Barton also had hosted a Wounded Warriors hunt, and several others had killed their first deer on the family land near his Hinds County home.
So when the alarm clock sounded Saturday (Jan. 29), he hit the snooze. Twice. […]
It was bitterly cold on the Jan. 9, and only five truckloads of Hatchapaloo Hunting Club members had shown up for a morning dog hunt. The hunters were riding the more than 30 miles of roads on the 7,000-acre Smith County lease looking for a likely place to release their dogs.
“We were just riding and trying to stay in the truck because it was so cold,” joked Gary Kennedy, known at the camp as “Festus Hagen.” […]
Young Sawyer Watts had been watching a great buck on trail cameras for the past three of years, just waiting for it to really mature. And the animal almost went down last season, when one of Watts’ buddies missed the deer.
But last Tuesday (Jan. 25), the 14-year-old Watts made his shot at the 160-class deer count.
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Claudie Steen watched the nice 11-point ease into the bottleneck, and drew his bow as the animal approached his stand site. He had seen the deer earlier while trailing another deer he had arrowed, and now everything was falling in place.
At a mere 15 yards, the Canton hunter put his pin on the deer’s vitals and released the arrow. And felt his stomach churn as the animal ducked and quickly disappeared.
That was Jan. 31, 2010. […]
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