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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. […]

Erecting stands, planting food plots and scouting take on more meaning for leased lands.

Sign ‘em Up!

May 21, 2007 John J. Woods

As I drove across the property, it was love at first sight. The location was ideal — less than five miles outside town from my home. The habitat was a mixture of hardwoods, pine ridges, ponds, creeks, and open pasture interspersed among a network of timber islands. The place could not have been laid out better for deer hunting. […]

The author demonstrates the results of a shot with his Ruger Super Redhawk in .454 Casull. Another dedicated hunter, Abbie Pi, daughter of CorBon V-P Peter Pi Jr., sits on the 130-pound boar with the author.

Casull dishes it, if you can take it

May 2, 2007 Gordon Hutchinson

Like a spouse in a dysfunctional relationship, I find myself missing the abuse. After all, I had developed a really close relationship with the Ruger Super Redhawk over a four-day hunt for European boar and feral hogs at Caney Creek Lodge. […]

Old-fashioned single-row planters still work just fine for planting food plots.

Summer Food Plots

May 2, 2007 John J. Woods

It is a rather universally accepted practice, especially among landowners and deer hunters who lease land to invest in fall wildlife food plots. It is a cornerstone premise of anyone subscribing to the principles of quality deer management. But is this enough? […]

HB 423 would allow the Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks Commission to establish and manage a deer-baiting program.

Legislature again weighs outdoor bills

May 2, 2007 John J. Woods

The Mississippi Legislature has officially been in session since last January. The story on the street since then has been rumors of the availability of additional money this year due mainly to high sales tax collections from Katrina rebuilding business. […]

This custom left-handed version of an AR-15-style semi-auto is owned by southpaw Baton Rouge gun dealer Jim Mayer. While he hasn’t tested it for accuracy, it has most of the bells and whistles, built up for him by DPMS in a left-handed version. “It should be a tack-driver,” Mayer said.

“Black” rifles legitimate for hunting

April 15, 2007 Gordon Hutchinson

I wasn’t going to participate in the time-hallowed American tradition of “piling on.” I hadn’t heard about the controversy swirling around Outdoor Life’s Hunting Editor Jim Zumbo until it was brought to my attention by fellow outdoor writer and shooting enthusiast John Simeone from the Ft. Polk/Toledo Bend area. […]