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Rossi Rio Grande

January 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

Rossi steps up its Rio Grande lever-action rifle line with the addition of .410-gauge shotshell or .45-70 Government ammunition models. […]

Community scrapes can be located in visible areas – especially where whitetails congregate over nutritious food sources. Despite light hunting pressure and whitetails being somewhat active during daylight hours, research has shown that the majority of scraping behavior is nocturnal.

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. […]

Lightfield Hybred Mag-20

January 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

The unique red hull Lightfield Hybred Mag-20 has industry leading ballistics and employs technology that make it the ultimate 20 gauge slug on the market. […]

Cover: January 2012

January 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

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Cannon Scout Series

January 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

With solid fire protection and a wide variety of features, a Cannon Scout Series safe is a good investment in securing your valuables. […]

EPIC HD 1080

January 1, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

The EPIC 1080 Adventure Camera has the ability to record in stunning 1920×1080 High Definition, capturing all the action of the hunt with sharp, high-resolution video and crisp, clear audio. […]

Water and food are the two essential elements that draw ducks to Tallahatchie County.

Duck hunting potholes

January 1, 2012 John J. Woods

Virtually all of the waterfowl hunting done in Tallahatchie County with Catfish Flautt is over small water-holding areas and assorted water resources duck hunters have always referred to as potholes. These “open waters” are not lake size by any means; potholes can be everything from a small depression in a field of corn or soybeans to a low-lying area along a creek, bayou or slough. […]

Successful duck hunters at Tallahatchie Hunts come from all over the country and world.

Tallahatchie County topgraphy

January 1, 2012 John J. Woods

The question always comes as to why Tallahatchie County is poised to be such a great place for waterfowl hunting. If you could just do a flyover of this county during the duck season, the answer would quickly become obvious. […]

Anglers who’d like to try fishing a Moss Back Fish Rack for themselves can visit this location where Brad Chappell placed one in preparation for this article.

Bonus Spot

January 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Even with the numerous natural brush in Ross Barnett, savvy crappie anglers continue to build man-made cover in the lake — and they continue to catch fish on them. […]

Nate Young shot these birds on a quick field flush on Christmas Eve.

Hype for Snipe

January 1, 2012 Rob Heflin

As duck season fades away and deer season wanes, most hunters begin to retire to their warm homes to recuperate after a long season. A few may go afield for late-season rabbit hunts and a February squirrel or two, but few have wingshooting on their minds this late in the year. […]

Savannah Pope harvested her best buck yet during a late-season hunt last year near Chunky, while hunting with her dad Randy.

The Right Time

January 1, 2012 Michael O. Giles

Randy Pope climbed into his elevated tree stand well before dawn on a recent hunt and prepared for the morning. Pope has hunted big-game animals all over the world and is an expert at finding, hunting and harvesting trophy whitetail bucks. […]

Long-distance feeling

January 1, 2012 Hal Schramm

Fish have the same five senses people do — sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing — but their ability to detect water movement is like a sixth sense. The ability to detect water movement helps fish avoid collisions, find prey and avoid predators. […]