Inshore Fishing

MirrOlure Lil John

Available in fourteen popular color patterns, the MirrOlure Lil John Twitchbait is the latest addition to MirrOlure’s popular soft plastic product line. Its special tube shaped body allows for great action and unmatched casting distance. […]

General

GLOCK Gen4 Models

GLOCK is introducing three new models to the Gen4 pistol family for 2012. The G21 (.45 Auto), G32 (.357) and G34 (9X19) Gen4 models come with three different grip options, enabling the pistol to adapt to each individual shooter’s hand size, and the original recoil spring has been replaced with a dual recoil spring assembly, which noticeably reduces felt recoil. […]

Fishing

Underwater eyes

Underwater video cameras have been around for decades without gaining the popularity they deserve. They have always delivered decent picture detail, but the older cathode ray tube (CRT) screens used by earlier models suffered visibility problems from glare and grayed out in bright sunlight. […]

Events & Announcements

February issue getting printed now

The staff of Mississippi Sportsman sent the February issue to the printer yesterday (Jan. 17), and subscribers should start seeing it in their mailboxes early next week.

The cover features Will Rives, who arrowed what may be a new state-record archery buck two weeks ago. Inside, the issue is jam-packed with all the information you need to have success in the woods and on the water this time of year. Here’s the feature lineup: […]

Deer Hunting

Deer Dynamics

The degree of hunting pressure, nutrition, buck-to-doe ratios, management, genetics and weather can influence not just the rut’s timing, but whitetail social interactions as well. Even so, by instinct, rutting bucks usually follow the same behavioral traits — even when immature bucks get in on the action. […]

Content

The Community Scrape

In search of vegetative foliage, five bucks ­— a mature 8-pointer, a 3½-year-old, two spunky spikes and a curious button buck — go single file along the forest edge, ascending a bluff. Occasionally the group stops to forage; yet one of the spikes and the button buck, by instinct, prefer to assertively test their status with bouts of mock sparring. […]