When Courtney Kelleher left Huntsville, Ala., on March 25 to obtain her marriage license at the Natchez, Miss., courthouse, the last thing on her mind was turkey hunting. So she had no idea that her first turkey hunt was in the offing. […]
On April 18, 2003, in Copiah County, Doug Borries harvested Mississippi’s state-record turkey, which scored 79.18 on the National Wild Turkey Federation scale, weighed 24 pounds, 11 ounces, had 11 7/8-inch-long beard and spurs measuring 1-3/4-inches long. Borries also has taken 22 Grand Slam turkeys in 18 consecutive years, and has also taken three Royal Slams, including Mexico’s Gould’s turkey. […]
Registered users of MS-Sportsman.com can win official Sportsman gear and Primos hunting equipment in the new Turkey Photo and Video Contests. […]
With spring turkey season going strong and crappie action fast and furious, it is doubtful many people are thinking of doves or dove hunting. […]
It was a drizzly, miserable December 2009 night in Marrero, a small river town across from New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River. […]
It’s April. Spring has sprung, and we are in the throes of prime time for turkey hunting. Big toms are heating up their gobbling action. Hen groups are starting to bust up a bit and separate. This is the time when a big gobbler can be coaxed into gun range with some seductive hen calls. The trick is where to go to find these gobbling toms. […]
With stealth, a lone coyote moves through the woodlot, its nose to the ground. Periodically, the canine stops and visually scans the timber. […]
The maddest Robin Callender ever got at a deer-hunting trade show was when a hunter from Michigan approached his booth, which displayed bucks harvested at his commercial operation in Claiborne County, and proceeded to tell him there was no way Mississippi had whitetail bucks that big. […]
Preston Pittman, the only turkey caller ever to have won all five divisions of the World Turkey Calling Championship as well as the Grand National Championship. […]
The Swamp Monster was the name Wayne Stewart had given a certain wild turkey gobbler that lived in the Noxubee River bottom near Stewart’s home and had eluded the bowhunter for the better part of the spring turkey season. […]
Finding hunting property to lease is now even easier with the merging of an online listing of 7,000 tracts of land into a geographic information system, allowing outdoorsmen to access GPS coordinates and even look at maps of available property online. […]
Duck callers from across the country will gather in Stuttgart, Ark., March 19-20 to compete for positions in the World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest held later this year. The Arkansas Duck Calling Classic, hosted by Ducks Unlimited and Mack’s Prairie Wings, is one of the largest sanctioned duck-calling competitions in the country. […]
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