December 21, is my birthday. This year my son Hal, my grandson,Jimmy and I were hunting at Itta Bena Hunting club, as usual.
Jimmy had been hunting with me, trying to kill his fourth buck (he is 10 years old). This morning Hal had taken Jimmy duck hunting, where he killed his first duck in the air. This gave me a little time to hunt alone. […]
“They” say there are no places left to deer hunt in Mississippi. “All” the good public land is way too overcrowded to fool with hunting there. “Too” many out-of-state license plates always line up the few available parking areas. “Road riders” spend all day cruising the forest roads looking for targets of opportunity. “Forest trails” twist and turn everywhere making it too hard to find your way around the wildlife management areas. […]
Will Rives wasn’t out to kill a state-record deer when he went bow hunting Dec. 14, but that’s exactly what he left the woods with.
Now Rives tells the story of the kill, in his own words, in this MS-Sportsman.com video interview. […]
Editor’s note: This buck was later certified as the state-record archery buck, topping the category in the Magnolia Records at 172 4/8 Pope & Young.
Will Rives is a die-hard hunter who is lucky enough to hunt almost every day during the winter. But on Dec. 15, he woke up at 4:30, got dressed and stepped outside to find a south wind and 60-degree weather – and then promptly walked back inside, crawled in bed and went back to sleep.
“That’s not like me, it usually doesn’t matter if it’s 80 outside,” Rives said. “When we knock off (of work) for the wintertime, I hunt every day. I’m relentless.” […]
Your heart is still pounding uncontrollably as the overdose of adrenaline rushes through your veins. Only seconds have passed since you squeezed the trigger on the biggest buck you’ve ever seen. Everything happened so fast that it almost seemed like a dream.
But what you do now may determine whether you recover your trophy. […]
A 112-acre cedar thicket may not seem like prime woods for killing trophy bucks, but then again, it depends on where the thicket is. The cedar thicket David Coleman hunts is apparently in exactly the right spot. […]
Dwight Shaffer doesn’t have a lot of land to hunt. In fact, he has just a few small tracts scattered out that he spends time on. But a 66-acre piece of Walthall County property turned out to be all he needed to knock down a mammoth buck that green scored more than 190 inches. […]
It’s not that Scott Hidalgo doesn’t hunt a lot. It wasn’t even because he hadn’t been successful as a deer hunter. No, rotten luck was the reason Hidalgo hadn’t killed a rack buck in the 17 years since he began deer hunting when he climbed into a stand on Nov. 21. […]
Users Renot16 and bhobbs earned MS-Sportsman.com prize packages today (Dec. 6) for winning the November installments of the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail contests. […]
When you mention diving ducks to most Mississippi hunters, especially in the Delta, most will give you a weird look and say a few choice words. The scaup and other divers that are prize waterfowl in some parts of the country just aren’t that popular in the Magnolia State. […]
There have been some beasts killed already this year. Kolby Byrd arrowed this Pope & Young buck on family land near Hermanville on Oct. 6. […]
Why waste time trudging through the mud and the muck when you can ride around in style with The Beast 48-Ultimate Hunting Buggy? […]
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