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Every field has hotspots that the birds consider flight paths. A wise hunter will inspect a field carefully before selecting his spot.

The Feel of Steel

August 20, 2007 Cliff Covington

Shotgun-toting hunters will take to fields all across the Magnolia State this month. You can be one of those who returns home with a limit of doves. […]

Cover: September 2007

August 20, 2007 Mississippi Sportsman

In which countries do you have the best chance of bagging the buck of your dreams? We tell you in this issue. […]

Young Nick Walker poses with Houston Primos’ 155 2/8-inch buck taken during the 2001 primitive-weapon season in Madison County.

Larry Reece scanned spacious openings from his elevated stand one day during the 2001 Mississippi Primitive Arms deer season. His Knight muzzleloader was at ready as he spotted a big buck 150 yards distant. He made some grunts on his Hunters’ Specialty grunt tube. […]

Adam Stewart’s foray into the world of recurve bowhunting has proven to be a good one. He killed this trophy last season with a bow he’d made himself.

Handmade and Deadly

August 20, 2007 Michael O. Giles

Adam Stewart scoured the surrounding woods in search of a deer, and marveled at the splendor of it all.The young hunter had joined his Uncle Bobby Pinkham for his first bow hunt, which took place in Lauderdale County. Though Stewart didn’t think he would like bowhunting, he finally gave in to his uncle’s pleadings. […]

Cover: August 2007

July 24, 2007 Mississippi Sportsman

Deer don’t seem to mind Mississippi’s expanding population, and hunters who learn the tricks of the trade can score on some beasts in close proximity of residential neighborhoods. […]

Larry Oberhousen took several bucks behind his old restaurant within the city limits of Raymond in Hinds County.

Backyard Bucks

July 23, 2007 John J. Woods

The biggest bucks we could ever dream of hunting could be hiding out virtually right next door in our neighbor’s back yard. […]

The feeling of retrieving a trophy buck you’ve harvested is incomparable. Many hunters, however, are robbed of this joy because a blood trail ends, and they’ve got no other way of locating the animal.

Dog ’Em, Don’t Lose ’Em

July 23, 2007 John E. Phillips

In the fading light of the fall afternoon, a nice buck appeared, well within bow range of the archer in his treestand at Willow Point, a part of Tara Wildlife near Vicksburg. The hunter drew his bow, released the arrow and hit the buck, but the buck vanished. […]

Because hogs make a lot of noise and have poor eyesight, you can often get close to them to get off a shot, but if a hog smells you, it’s gone.

Hog Wild

July 23, 2007 John E. Phillips

Mississippi has two types of properties — land with wild hogs and land on the verge of homing feral swine. Feral hogs have become one of the biggest wildlife concerns for most game managers in Mississippi and throughout the nation. […]

August is the month to get hunting guns and bows out to the range for cleaning, adjustments and sighting in.

Get ready now for hunting season

July 23, 2007 John J. Woods

This time of year, most hunters are hunkered down under an air-conditioning vent. It’s still a bit of a wait until hunting season, but that doesn’t slow down the daydreams or anticipation. Patience may be a grand virtue, but in August, it’s wearing thin for hunters. […]

To determine which eye is your dominant eye, make a peep sight with the webs of your thumbs, and stare at an object in the distance.

How to overcome cross-dominance

July 23, 2007 Gordon Hutchinson

Brian Arabie, a regular reader, queried the magazine about teaching his young son shooting and firearms safety. […]

Whether hunting with a bow or gun, hunters of all ages are having the chance these days to take the biggest bucks of their lives.

Bigger and Better

June 25, 2007 John J. Woods

White-tailed buck racks have never been bigger in Mississippi than they are right now. It seems we have a virtual explosion of big bucks in this state, and plenty of evidence exists to prove it. […]

Wildlife personnel score every deer entered in the Big Buck Contest.

Extravaganza a sign summer’s over

June 25, 2007 John J. Woods

I hate summer. It’s too hot and humid to do anything worthwhile outside, in my opinion. I don’t fish much, don’t have the patience for baseball, would rather hit my thumb with a hammer than work in the yard or a garden and the beach is for, well, terns and seagulls. […]