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Cover: November 2014
The 2014-15 hunting season got off to a good start for hunters like 12-year old Bryce Gaston. Flip to page 116 to read how he nailed this beautiful deer. […]
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Midday rendezvous — Tips for deer hunting in the middle of the day
Deer hunters, by nature, are crepuscular.
Before you go reaching for the dictionary, it means we relate to twilight. […]
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Rut warriors— Hunting tips for the rut
Jimmy Primos patiently waited as the trophy buck strode closer through the sage. Still at a safe distance, the veteran hunter eased his Mission crossbow into position. […]
Deer Hunting
Patterned deer hunters
One of the big debates in deer hunting is if deer hunters pattern deer or do deer pattern hunters? […]
Deer Hunting
Louisiana men, company sentenced in deer case
Three Louisiana men and a Slidell company they owned and represented were sentenced Thursday in a federal court in Gulfport on violations of the Lacey Act for illegally importing white-tailed deer into Mississippi. […]
Deer Hunting
Revisiting Laird’s 11-year-old record
When Tracy Laird found the giant buck, his heart started racing and his knees were buckling. […]
Freshwater Fishing
The Crappie Psychic
There were days as recently as this summer that a 51-year-old Raceland outdoorsman returned from a sac-a-lait (crappie) fishing trip and removed a secret weapon on his tube jig about a mile from the boat ramp. He did this so no one would get so much as a glimpse of the artificial add-on responsible for putting so many slabs in the ice chest. […]
Bass Fishing
Winter is lunker time
It was a warm winter’s day, the last one of 1992 in fact, when Anthony Denny saw the telltale sign of a big bass making a feeding run on some shad in a cove on the lake at Natchez State Park. […]
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Grilled Southwest venison meatloaf
This is a recipe I have literally dreamed about. It got stuck in my mind — like a song on the radio sometimes does — and I couldn’t shake it. In the formative stages of the recipe, there were ideas that definitely came about while I was asleep or at least in that odd zone that is half-asleep and half-awake. […]
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Lethal Lace
Buying a good quality handgun to carry for self-defense is only part of the equation. You simply have to buy and practice with a suitable holster that will comfortably and securely carry your handgun so you can get at it easily and quickly. […]
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Court throws out suit seeking more strict requirements for ethanol pumping
The U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia circuit has thrown out of court the most-recent case involving ethanol labeling, reasoning that the groups bringing the complaint – including the recreational boating industry – don’t have standing because they “cannot show members have suffered or are suffering with an injury that is traceable to the misfueling regulations.” […]
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How to keep your electronics from hurting you
“Garbage in, garbage out” was a watchword with computers long before they were integrated into marine electronics. We rarely enter full-blown garbage into our stuff out on the water but expensive problems can stem from not giving some “minor” details the attention they deserve. […]