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2008 WMA Forecast
No hunting season can be looked at in isolation, since game-animal health this fall depends on what happened last season. […]
Hunting
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Think outside the box for fall plots
It’s never too early to plan ahead for fall wildlife food plots. It may be hot as a firecracker outside with sweltering humidity to match, but the universal targeted Labor Day planting date is fast approaching. […]
Deer Hunting
Bruinsburg Bruiser ruins hunter for life
In 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant’s federal troops crossed the Mississippi River at a sleepy little town called Bruinsburg, where Bayou Pierre empties into the Mississippi below a magnificent mansion named Windsor that later burned, leaving only stately columns standing as mute testimony to the former glory the federal troops saw when they climbed those steep bluffs. […]
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Avoiding Ground Shrinkage
How many times at deer camp every season have you heard the immortal words of a disappointed deer hunter? […]
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Hog Heaven
Crouching low to the ground, I strain to see through the tangled jungle of briars and pin oaks ahead. It is fairly easy crawling, as I make my way toward the commotion, barely 40 yards more. […]
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Cover: August 2008
Not certain if that buck moving through the woods meets your club’s minumums? We tell you how to be sure. […]
Hunting
Heller opens a welcome can of worms
If you are a firearms enthusiast, by now you have heard of the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26 in the Heller case. […]
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Quantum Leap for Quail
Lady was locked tightly into the most perfect pose one could desire. Ordinarily stubborn and less than cooperative, she was now in rare form. […]
Hunting
Wildrose dogs hear trainer’s whispers
This month’s featured Mississippi Hunting Camp takes me back 44 years to Oxford when Bobby Stewart introduced me to “The Great Outdoors.” […]
Hunting
So-called black rifles are going green
The recent revolution over the so-called “black rifles” is an interesting anomaly to me. More than 20 years ago, I peddled an article to several hunting magazines on the idea of using modern military style rifles for hunting. These were not the surplus 98 Mausers, 03 Springfields or British Lee-Enfield 303 type rifles that the post-WWII hunters used for years, but the next generation of AR-type firearms like the AR-15 (not M-16), FN-FALs and HK-91s. […]
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Open to the Public
Q: What would make a man like Wayne Edwards of Meridian, who hasn’t dove hunted since 1986, drive 60 miles to get back into the sport? […]
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COVER: July 2008
Deer season will be here before you know it. Now’s the time to make sure yours will be a good one. […]