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Deer of the Year
Hunting began with a bang for Bogue Chitto’s Kolby Byrd when he arrowed a 150-inch 9-point on Oct. 6, and that big kill heralded the beginning of what turned into the best season since 2007. […]
Statewide MS
Featured Story
Classic information available on sister site
The Bassmaster Classic is arguably the biggest bass-fishing championship in the world, and it’s coming to New Orleans Feb. 18-20. To provide continuous updates about all the festivities, our sister site – LouisianaSportsman.com – has launched a section dedicated to the tournament.
“This is such an important event that we wanted to accumulate all Classic information in once place so our users can go to one place and learn everything they need to know,” MS-Sportsman.com’s Andy Crawford said. “It’s really one-stop Classic shopping.” […]
Deer Hunting
Palmer, Hester win online photo contests grand prizes
Jackson Palmer and Jared Hester won the grand-prize round of the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam photo contests. The two MS-Sportsman.com users’ photos were chosen by the site’s users.
The two contest winners earned berths in the grand-prize round of voting by winning monthly contests. […]
Deer Hunting
Palmer, Bankston win deer photo monthly contests; finals round begins
MS-Sportman.com users Jackson Palmer and Justin Bankston took top honors in the final monthly edition of the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam photo contests. Palmer and Bankston now move on to the grand-prize round of voting that begins this afternoon.
Each of the users will receive an Official Sportsman Gear prize pack that includes a Sportsman T-shirt, a decal and a free one-year subscription to Mississippi Sportsman magazine. […]
Deer Hunting
Tips on cleaning and deboning deer
Cleaning a deer might be second hand for veteran hunters, but it’s often one of the things that new hunters struggle with. […]
New Products
Hunter’s Specialties Cutt’n & Strutt’n 15
Now in its 15th year, the Cutt’n and Strutt’n DVD series from Hunter’s Specialties continues to bring exciting turkey-hunting action as the pro staff and friends hunt gobblers across the country.
Bass Fishing
Big bass photo contest begins
It’s that time of year, when bass begin thinking of love and big females start making their way to bedding areas. And that means anglers begin picking them off. Whether it’s Ross Barnett, Calling Panther or one of the Mississippi River oxbows, now is the time to start looking for that wallhanger. […]
Deer Hunting
Voting begins in January edition of Deer of the Year, Trail Cam contests
It’s time for MS-Sportsman.com users to choose the final monthly winners in the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam contests. The winner from each of these contests will move on to the final round of voting in which the grand prize winner will be announced. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Long-term effects of sedimentation
With an average annual rainfall of almost 60 inches, Mississippi is the third wettest state in the U.S. Much of that rain falls in late winter and early spring. While filling the rivers, streams and reservoirs that provide bountiful fisheries, the rains negatively affect fisheries by transporting erodible soils from the watershed into fishable waters. […]
As Big As they Grow
Is fishing really about the fish?
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg — even though he knows you’re slightly cracked. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to lose and impossible to forget. It takes a long time to make an old friend. […]
Fishing
What is your life worth?
A few issues back, we looked at emergency locator beacons that use the international search and rescue satellite system, and I mentioned that there is another choice, the SPOT satellite GPS messenger. While the EPIRBs and PLBs we looked at before communicate with U.S. and European emergency satellites, SPOT units use the commercial satellite network that supports satellite telephone and Internet communication. And while EPIRBs and PLBs are last-resort devices to be used only in life-threatening emergencies, SPOT can send less-intense transmissions and handle other tasks as well. […]
Rabbit
It’s time to run rabbits
By every small-game hunter’s time clock, it is the rabbit-running time of year. Rabbit hunters know the woods and fields have settled down since the end of deer season. The only orange vests being worn now by most hunters across the state are out rabbit hunting. […]