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Gentlemen, start your engines!
It’s finally November, and we all know what that means. For fellow members of the deer-hunting community, the past nine months have been slowly and steadily building toward November. […]
Hunting
Ducks
Decoy spread details
Larry Reynolds criss-crosses the Louisiana coastline multiple times each fall — cruising at 100 knots with a bird’s-eye view from just 125 feet up, estimating the number of ducks that have arrived in the state’s ag fields and coastal marshes. […]
Deer Hunting
Writer’s Thanksgiving morning buck
I love hunting cutovers that are between three and five years old, offer plenty of browse for deer and afford them security to feed openly during the day while never leaving the thick browse. Hunters who set up in elevated stands are able to spot deer — and pick out a good buck every once in a while — without ever being spotted. […]
Deer Hunting
Club poll provides base of cost-saving ideas
Several hunting club presidents and/or board members surveyed about what they’ve done to help alleviate the financial burden their groups have faced volunteered some of their tactics to compensate for the rise in lease prices. […]
Deer Hunting
Be safe with a system
Hunter Safety System, Inc., was born out of a love for hunting and a desire to keep safe all hunters who use tree stands. Even so, it took a near-death experience to provide the impetus for the creation of the HSS harness. […]
Ducks
Get quacking come Thanksgiving weekend
After what was, at best, a decent teal season in the latter part of September, Mississippi duck hunters are hungry for more. No, make that starving. […]
Deer of the Year
Little Lott’s big Sharkey County buck
The advantage of youth can extend way beyond the lack of fiscal responsibility, work deadlines, body pains and all that stuff us older folks deal with on a regular basis. […]
Deer Hunting
3rd CWD case suspected in Issaquena County
Mississippi appears to have its third deer with chronic wasting disease, the second from the Issaquena County CWD Management Zone, and the first doe to be discovered with the deadly protein-based illness.
Deer Hunting
Young hunter’s first buck recovery captured on video
Just about everyone nowadays has a video camera in their pocket and Shaun Briggs used his smartphone brilliantly to capture the moment his son Brayson realized he had killed his very first buck. […]
Featured
Plenty of shooting on the wing
For waterfowlers who just don’t want to wait for the duck season to get a little wet and muddy, there’s the regular goose season that starts well in advance of duck season this fall. […]
Deer Hunting
How to raise deer ‘clubbing’ to an art form in Mississippi
Tactics to keep hunting clubs vibrant and alive include changes in management of leased land, beyond just economic or membership moves. […]
Deer Hunting
Climb for the prize
If you were to survey any given piece of hunting property, there are areas that cry out to be hunted. A majority of times, these areas are soon saddled with a permanent hunting stand, be it a ladder, box or other permanent fixture. A hunter may even take one or more deer from that stand the next season, or it may be one of those rare stands that produces every season. But the reason that site was chosen is because it looked good to the hunter, not because it was conducive to the deer. […]