Mississippi Sportsman’s staff sent the November issue to the printer yesterday (Oct. 18). Subscribers can begin looking for it in their mailboxes on Monday (Oct. 24). […]
Along the forest edge, a whitetail buck hesitates beneath the overhanging branches of a pine tree. Then with ease, the animal stretches its neck up toward a particular limb and begins to rub its mouth and forehead on the limb. Closing its eyelids, it resumes this behavior on the tree.
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Lots of Mississippi deer hunters claim to practice quality deer management, but few are more serious about it than Kolby Byrd of Bogue Chitto. This 20-year-old hunter already has a number of trophy whitetails under his belt, each attributed to following intensive deer management practices.
And while bowhunting a tract of family land near Hermanville on Oct. 6, Byrd was once again able to reap the rewards of his management efforts by arrowing a monster 9-pointer he had been watching for almost two years with the help of several trail cameras.
A white-tailed buck leaves his bedding site in a stand of small pines. Instead of heading to the clover plot, he scales up a small ridge to seek out what is beneath the trees. […]
Once the green-up begins in the spring and early summer months, both bucks and does seek out flowering plants known as forbs. […]
This past season was really one for the record books, with monster deer seemingly falling every week. The cold fronts that rolled through the state on a regular basis kicked deer movement into high gear, and hunters flocked to the woods to kill the big bucks as they moved about. […]
The rut has come and gone. Bucks that survived hunting season are dropping their battered racks. Though the whitetails are no longer at war for dominance, the competitiveness still exists — even in the off season. […]
Exhaustion sets in, forcing the battle-scarred buck to seek refuge. An eye is wounded, and missing fur and cuts prevail all around its face and neck. Finally, the worn buck returns to an old bedding site. Here it beds down, and within minutes, the whitetail knocks out. […]
The damp of the January morning (on Jan. 14) drove straight to the bone and clung like steel traps, much colder than the dry snow and sub-freezing temperatures I’d left behind near Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the day before.
But then, that’s the way it’s always been down South – a cold that courses your body; one that numbs the toes and finger tips, tortures any exposed surfaces and makes the sway of an errant limb feel like the lash of an angry whip. I know the pain of Southern cold ever so well: I grew up in Shreveport, La., just about 200 miles east of where I was creeping Indian style through the undergrowth of Claiborne County. […]
Wayne McAndrew stumbled across a piece of Amite County property available for lease in August 2009, and jumped at the chance to start his own club.
While the tract of land only encompassed 450 acre, McAndrew soon knew he had made the right decision.
“The first or second week of bow season, my buddy (Brad Balado) actually got a picture way on the other side of the lease of this buck,” the Louisiana hunter said. “Our jaws dropped when we saw the picture.” […]
Eddie Peterson had made the drive from Waveland to Mahanna Wildlife Management Area for a draw hunt, but hadn’t had much luck until they ran across another hunter who had killed a pretty nice deer.
“He didn’t tell us, ‘Go here,’ but he told us a general area to go to,” Peterson said.
So during the mid-day lull on Dec. 16, the hunter and his buddies eased in to find stand sites. […]
In a flash, the buck charged into the herd of does and younger bucks, scattering them in all directions. The monster was furious that an immature buck had moved in on his harem. […]
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