ReAnn Chatham, 14, was brimming with enthusiasm and anticipation last Thursday afternoon as she entered her shoot house in Clarke County. Chatham and her dad Greg had located some nice bucks and she was ready to harvest her first buck of the year on this early season youth hunt. […]
As it is in any discussion of deer hunting, the rut in the Mississippi Delta is worth a close inspection. Being that it is the northwestern part of the state, one might expect that the rutting dates are generally earlier than other parts of the state. On the surface that seems true. […]
Delta deer hunting usually involves big fields or vast CRP and WRP lands, requiring that hunters be in a position to see and then shoot at long range. […]
A decade or two ago the hottest item in Delta deer camps was a soybean field rifle. For a while, owning one was considered more important than having a four-wheel drive monster pickup, a 500+cc ATV, Zeiss binoculars, or a wardrobe of Mossy Oak. […]
A unicorn, as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “a mythical animal generally depicted with the head of a horse, the hind legs of a stag, the tail of a lion and a single horn in the middle of the forehead.” […]
A persistent mystique looms about giant bucks coming out of the Mississippi Delta, and the truth is that this soil-rich region is just one area of the state that produces book deer. […]
Two times last fall, T. Logan Russell had his bow drawn on the same trophy 10-point buck, and both times he had to let it walk off into the fading light knowing his shooting opportunity was less than optimal. […]
Fishermen love hunting season, especially those who do not hunt.
“Means a lot less traffic on the water,” said Gene Turner of Jackson, who loves bass fishing on Delta oxbows and Barnett Reservoir in October and November. […]
Rare is the story of a hunter killing a trophy buck where everything goes exactly right, from start to finish. […]
Dana Sanders grew up in Vicksburg, and his family still has a farm just to the south in Claiborne County. And, these days he’s lucky enough to spend most of his time in the outdoors as part of his job as a wetlands consultant along the coast. […]
Fifty-seven years — that’s how long David Wall of the small Big Creek Community on the upper end of Grenada Lake has fished for catfish in the massive flood control watershed. […]
It didn’t take long for Mississippi’s state alligator record to fall.
Last night — opening night of the public waters season — three friends hunting together in the Southwest Zone took a 756-pound gator in an area they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, identify. […]
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