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Cover: January 2009

January 6, 2009 Mississippi Sportsman

Follow late-season strategies this month, or you’ll be waiting at least another nine to get that big buck on your wall. […]

An early Model 61 S&W .22 pocket pistol is shown here on top of a new Federal Form 4473. A transfer of a firearm from a licensed dealer to any recipient requires this form. The form is filled out, and the information on the recipient is called in on an FBI NICS check.

Registration not a fact of gun purchase

January 6, 2009 Gordon Hutchinson

In the last 30 days, I have fielded six questions from people who have either bought a gun from an individual, inherited a gun or were given a gun by someone. […]

Chris Clifton (left) and Kevin Coughran have their best success after the peak of hunting pressure dies off.

Kevin Coughran’s swan song is one that is often played out about the time the holiday-season deer hunting has ended and almost everyone is back at work. If that big buck is not already at the taxidermist by now, a great many deer hunters are starting to think recliners, football playoffs, warm fireplaces, even spring fishing and turkey hunting. […]

One man’s cull buck is another man’s trophy.

For best results, avoid taking culls

January 6, 2009 John J. Woods

The debate is fully entrenched now. It crept in through the back door, but now it pops up all over the place. It certainly caught me off guard. In fact, I probably would never have seen the issue on the Mississippi deer hunting radar screen if a co-worker had not mentioned it to me. […]

Mark Edwards and company cashed in on the greenheads. Hunting small water holes on a limited schedule can provide good hunts throughout the season when pressured birds are hard to decoy.

Better Late Than Never

January 6, 2009 Rob Heflin

January duck hunting in the Magnolia State is quite a bit different than hunting early-season birds in December. Birds that have been pounded from Canada to the Gulf are quite wary, and hunting them at the tail-end of our duck season can be frustrating to say the least. […]

Ground blinds are effective when deer are frequenting areas without large trees.

Getting Grounded

December 2, 2008 John J. Woods

Quite often tactics used for deer hunting come around full circle over time. Just a mere 30 years ago, virtually no deer hunter had ever heard of a factory-manufactured lock-on tree stand, ladder stand or climber, much less seen or used one. A few hunters built elevated tree houses to hunt out of, some fabricated pallet platforms up in a tree, or others more likely just wedged a 2×6 board into the Y-juncture of two tree-trunk limbs. […]

Cover: December 2008

December 2, 2008 Mississippi Sportsman

Casey Edwards overcame some tough odds to arrow this monster buck in Lincoln County. […]

Mike Mattly demonstrates a Knight KP-1 “Wurfflein” rifle to LOWA members. Chambered in .45-70, both the round and the design of the rifle were in use before 1900, which qualifies it for use in both Louisiana and Mississippi’s primitive-weapons seasons for deer.

‘Primitive’ Knight KP-1 of exceptional quality

December 2, 2008 Gordon Hutchinson

The Southern Shooting Center is located on Highway 3185 just outside of Thibodaux, La., and offers up to 300-yard rifle ranges and 30 cemented benches. […]

Young Palmer Lee hopes to one day harvest a buck this big.

Lee Farms: Part Two

December 2, 2008 Bill R. Lea

As promised in an earlier “part one” feature on Lee Farms, we recently made a return visit there to see how they were progressing on their infrastructure, primarily the massive two-story all-purpose building. […]

Angelia Boykin took this buck by hunting late-season food sources.

Now’s the time to bag your trophy

December 2, 2008 John J. Woods

Gather around the campfire boys, it’s time for some soapbox preaching. It’s the heat of the deer hunting season. Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot and the whitetail buck testosterone is running wild. […]

Action is the name of the game, and squirrel hunting offers plenty of it. That appeals to young hunters.

Tree Rat Resurgnece

December 2, 2008 Tony Kinton

“This is as good as it gets,” Neal Brown said as he stoked a Tennessee-style flintlock in .32 caliber. “I’ve done a lot of hunting, but squirrel hunting with a dog and the flintlock is my favorite. Let’s see what Barlow puts up down here in the swamp.” […]

Mourning doves are fond of soybeans, especially when late-season cold weather has them gobbling up carbs to keep warm. No-till fields, where waste grain is left exposed on top of the ground, are the best choices for hunters.

Dove Delay

December 2, 2008 Rob Heflin

Not many of us think of hunting small game, especially doves, during the dead of winter. It is true that while dove hunters come out en masse on Labor Day and a few weekends afterwards in September, only a few “professional” dove hunters take to the fields during the second and third seasons in the Magnolia State. […]