The rut is the best time and best opportunity to take a good buck, but it is also a phase of deer hunting when careless and/or excited hunters can really mess things up horribly. […]
January is an ugly month for deer hunters.
The peak of the rut is in the rear view mirror in most areas, and that means that finding a trophy buck has become near impossible. Either they have returned to their nocturnal normalcy or they have returned deep into their dense core areas. […]
One of the largest buck’s ever taken on public land in Mississippi — and a possible state record — was taken Wednesday morning by a Tishomingo County hunter enjoying a draw hunt at Canemount Wildlife Management Area in Claiborne County, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks confirmed. […]
John Pecoraro of Youngsville, La., has learned how to fool wily bucks. Here are his keys to mid-season hunting success. […]
Mississippi’s deer season ends one segment today and enters another on Friday, meaning some hunters will transition from primitive weapons back to regular firearms, while others won’t even notice. […]
Well, it is now December here in the Deep South, and as far as patterning mature bucks this is the time when the rubber meets the road. […]
In the early years of quality deer management, changing attitudes from only harvesting bucks to acceptance that doe harvests were mandatory to keep ratios in balance was a hard first step. […]
It’s a fact, if there is a best double cheeseburger out there hungry people are going to find it. They may have plenty to eat at home, but just the idea of a great snack being available is going to lure them into to checking it out. If it’s that good, they’ll be back, too. […]
Mississippi’s first gun season for deer ends today, but for most hunters it is nothing more than a hiccup in their hunting plans. […]
The hunting terrain across northern Mississippi is some of the most varied in the state, giving hunters opportunities to take deer from the lower reaches of the Appalachians to the deep rich Delta soils along the Mississippi River. […]
November means one thing to most bowhunters: It’s time to hunt white-tailed deer. […]
Louisiana hunter Jimmy Giacone was enjoying a morning hunt at a buddy’s lease near Liberty Sunday (Nov. 20) when three deer stepped out. […]
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