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Maximizing Day Hunts

Hunting is a time-intensive activity. Unfortunately in this fast paced whirlwind world, time is a prized commodity. We all have so many obligations with church, family, work, civic duties and everything else it is increasingly difficult to squeeze in just one day of hunting every so often. […]

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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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. […]

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. […]