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Three bucks move along the edge of a timber stand and a field.

Life on the edge — How to up your odds of deer-hunting success

December 1, 2015 David Hawkins

As the whitetail rut arrives, find an active edge, revisit scrape locations, rights-of-way as peak of deer season arrives with Christmas on the horizon. […]

Shane Johnson, Louisiana Traditional Bowmen club member, harvested this 10-point buck on Tensas National Wildlife Refuge in 2012. He called the buck in with a grunt before making an excellent shot with his recurve bow.

Close encounters — How to deer hunt with a longbow

December 1, 2015 Jonathan Olivier

A stick and a string — the only things standing between a traditional archery hunter and harvesting a whitetail.

It doesn’t get much simpler than that. […]

Cover: December 2015

December 1, 2015 Mississippi Sportsman

Get the basics to ambushing a trophy like this buck killed last season. […]

YUM Bad Mamma

November 26, 2015 Don Shoopman

If you’ve seen one soft plastic creature bait and you’ve seen them all. Right?

Well, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Terry “Big Show” Terry Scroggins would disagree. […]

Get 25 to 50 percent off everything in the Sportsman Store during the huge 2015 Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales event.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday sales on Sportsman Gear

November 25, 2015 Andy Crawford

Christmas is just a month away, and mesh-back hats and long-sleeve performance shirts from theSportsman Store are the perfect fit for the sportsmen in your family. […]

Four Mississippi state lakes have been stocked with 41,500 crappie to help improve fishing opportunities.

Four state lakes get crappie stockings

November 25, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Fishing for the state’s most-popular sport fish, the crappie, just got better at several small lakes thanks to stocking efforts by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. […]

Marine grade electrical components cost more but are specifically designed to handle the marine environment.

‘Marine-grade’ means more than you might think

November 23, 2015 Allan Tarvid

Owning a boat long enough to pay it off has a dark side. I usually own a fishing boat about 15 years — long enough to get it set up just right for me and, unfortunately, long enough to see electrical problems develop. […]

When you spook a deer on the way into your stand, it’s a lot easier to put a shotgun bead on a deer than aim a rifle.

Why a shotgun is better than a deer rifle

November 19, 2015 Brian Cope

Ernest McLeod has killed his share of deer with rifles, but about 10 years ago he decided that a shotgun was the way to go. […]

These buck movement graphs actually resulted from the author’s trail camera data.

Analyzing buck movement – Trail cams provide all the information needed

November 19, 2015 Bill Garbo

Once again, that totally magic time of year for ardent deer hunters is upon us, when bucks throw caution to the wind and shift into a more-vulnerable state of mind. […]

Top 4 tips to stay scent free when hunting

November 18, 2015 Brian Cope

It’s a common practice for deer hunters to make themselves as scent-free as possible before heading to their stand. Here are some tips. […]

A good way to find big bass on a cool, fall day is with a 10-inch (or longer) worm fished in a deep brush pile.

Don’t overlook fishing in fall

November 18, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Fishing is a year-round sport in Mississippi, and, because of reduced pressure due to hunting, the deer season is one of the best months of the year to hit the water. […]

Mississippi's 2015-16 gun season on deer opens statewide Saturday, and hunters can start looking for the trophy bucks. Will baiting help find big bucks like this one from the 2014 season?

Gun season opens Saturday

November 18, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi’s 2015-16 gun season on deer opens on Saturday (Nov. 21) statewide, and it will be the first one in which baiting will be legal at a minimum of 100 yards. […]