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The skinny on scrapes
One of the more fascinating aspects of the whitetail rut revolves around the wonderful, and at times mysterious, phenomenon known as “scraping.” […]
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Pair pleads guilty to headlighting
Hunting deer at night in December was a costly adventure for two Warren County men, according to officials with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. […]
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Blackened venison stoup
This recipe for Blackened venison stoup uses ground venison, but with all the stew vegetables, it is a little thicker than soup. […]
Deer of the Year
Oswalt’s mainframe 8 goes 204 inches gross
Former Major League All-Star pitcher Roy Oswalt wanted his daughter Arlee to take the best buck on his property in Lowndes County, and worked hard on it for two seasons. […]
Deer of the Year
Guntown hunter takes second trophy of the season
Earlier this deer season, Guntown’s Nash Stanford needed and used perseverance to take a trophy public-lands buck on Upper Sardis Wildlife Management Area near Oxford. […]
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First solo hunt produces 167-inch Jasper County 12-point
Call it woman’s intuition, but Garlandville’s Lauren Shimfessel just had a good feeling as she eased to her elevated Jasper County stand about 3 pm. on Dec. 26. […]
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Grenada man celebrates New Year’s Eve with 171-inch buck
Nathan Howell and his 8-year-old son Cooper had one of the shortest — and best — hunts of their lives in Grenada County on New Year’s Eve. Only minutes after they sat down in a stand, a 170-inch monster buck was cooling on the ground. […]
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Miserable hunt ends with 171-inch 16-point
Peyton Barnes had pretty much given up on his rainy morning deer hunt on Dec. 23, and he was ready to get down out of his stand in Claiborne County to seek the warmth and shelter of the camp house. […]
Deer of the Year
Louisiana hunter downs Jefferson County three-beamed monster
There’s just something about intuition and deer hunting that seem to go hand in hand. You know: That inexplicable feeling that makes you look in a certain direction at just the right time or use a call exactly when you need to. […]
Deer of the Year
Wife takes credit for hunter’s 152 7/8-inch 9-point
Tann Hollingsworth could have been moving furniture into their newly remodeled home in Terry Friday, which is what his wife Shannon had asked him to do. […]
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How deer weather the cold
White-tailed deer are resilient survivors. Their numbers have expanded wildly over the past 10 decades, primarily because they are highly adaptable, beating adversity at virtually every turn of environmental fate. […]
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Chill factor — Tips for deer hunting during arctic blasts
Like Mississippians, Mississippi deer don’t like super frigid weather.
OK, I hear the naysayers arguing that colder is always better than warmer, but apparently there is a limit to cold for Southern deer. And, after last hunting season, we know that anything is possible when Mother Nature is involved including ice and snow during our more typical mild southern winters. […]