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August 31, 2026

Duck hunting will be allowed on all four of the hunt units on Mississippi’s new Phil Bryant WMA.

New Bryant WMA rules proposed

May 28, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

Phil Bryant WMA will be broken into four units, each one offering a unique hunting experience, and hunters will be permitted to hunt through drawings. […]

The Archery in Mississippi Schools championship drew around 6,600 students out of 70,000 involved in the program statewide.

AIMS’ state championship draws 6,600

May 24, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

With an increase in participation, that included more than 6,000 in the 2019 state championships, Archery in Mississippi Schools is growing in popularity. […]

Alligator hunters will have 960 permits for the 2019 season, up from 930 in 2018.

Alligator season, regulations set

May 13, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

The application process for Mississippi’s 2019 alligator hunting season will begin May 31, with only electronic applications accepted through June 6. […]

How to set coyote traps

May 9, 2019 Mississippi Sportsman

Coyote trapper Eddie Wheat shows how to properly prepare and set coyote traps on this episode of Sportsman TV. […]

This photo shows 10 trail cameras — nine the author painted himself and one unpainted.

Use paint brushes to stealth up trail cameras

May 9, 2019 Joshua Chauvin

Unfortunately, many cameras on sale are often non-camouflaged. Well no need to spend more money. The cameras can be self-painted for only pennies in cost. […]

Revel Rawlings with his gobbler from Homochitto National Forest on April 23. It had a 1.12-inch spurs, a 10.5-inch beard and weighed 19 pounds.

Rawlings legendary Mississippi turkey triple

May 7, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

Revel Rawlings accomplished something incredible in a three-day period in Mississippi. He killed three gobblers on three different National Forests. […]

Spring squirrel season will open on May 15

May 6, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi hunters will again have a chance to take squirrels this month when the statewide spring season opens May 15. It ends on June 1. […]

Hunter Waltman of Kiln killed this solid white gobbler on March 17, 2019.

Hunter kills solid white turkey

May 2, 2019 Brian Cope

Hunter Waltman of Kiln, Miss., killed a solid white gobbler on March 17. By then, he was intimately familiar with the animal. […]

CWD count now 19; zones grow closer

April 25, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

The two latest confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease in Mississippi’s free-ranging deer herd brings the total to 19, causing the North CWD Management Zone to expand south. […]

Lone gobblers whose hens are nesting are likely to be doing a lot of traveling, especially late in the morning and early in the afternoon, when they can be fooled and killed.

Be patient, stay late for late-season turkeys

April 25, 2019 Craig Holt

Turkey hunters find at the end of turkey season that most “easy” turkeys have been killed, and the remaining ones are more wary and won’t come to calls. […]

The slumbering long-beard sits in a logging road with his head tucked away underneath his wing.

A sleeper at Canemount WMA

April 18, 2019 Andy Douglas

Lincoln County hunter Ricky Case harvested a sleeping gobbler on Canemount WMA. While cleaning the turkey, he discovered two shotgun pellet wounds in its breast area. […]

Flatten the turkey breast with a mallet to render it thin enough to roll it into a ball.

Turkey Cordon Bleu (almost)

April 15, 2019 Jerry Dilsaver

Put that wild gobbler’s breast to work in a big, delicious way with this turkey recipe. […]