It’s panic time in the deer woods. The palms of the hands go damp like they did on prom night. A chill runs down the back causing shivers to ripple up and down the spine. This makes one think a Nor’wester is about to blow in just to spit ice in the face for an insult. […]
It’s been a great year for hunters targeting big bucks, like Doyle Moorehead. He shot this 220-pound 13 point beauty in Hinds County. […]
Just when you think you’ve heard it or seen it all when it comes to deer hunting, somebody comes up with a whole new twist or trick. Some folks even within the marketing industry working within the hunting sports say there really is nothing new, just simply the same old stuff, renamed, repackaged and rolled out in a new ad campaign. […]
Easing along the old logging trail in the pre-dawn darkness, I was stopped in my tracks by the aromatic smell of a musty rutting buck. Sensing one was nearby, I eased down and waited for daylight. […]
Don’t expect to go to Pickwick Lake and see numbers of treetops, brush tops, standing timber and invisible cover that you can fish, because you won’t. […]
Located in Leake County where the Tuscolameta River empties into the Pearl River about five miles outside Carthage, Tuscolameta Hunting Club is a multiple-use, 4,000-acre camp offering its 60 members a broad array of hunting, fishing, camping and swimming activities. […]
During much of the year, red snapper are off-limits to Mississippi anglers, and drastically reduced creel counts make them less attractive to anglers when the season is open. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hal Schramm, a resident of Starkville, is a professor at Mississippi State University and leader of the USGS Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. He has done fisheries research for 30 years, and has been an avid multi-species angler longer than that. His column on freshwater fisheries will appear monthly. […]
Well, are you about all “holidayed” out? Had enough of those out-of-town, “I-thought-they’d-never-leave” relatives? Have you eaten all the smoked turkey and sugar-cured ham you care to for a while? […]
The water was high, but it wouldn’t be for long. […]
“If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.”
— Henry Ward Beecher […]
The hottest news in rifles as we approached and entered the 21st century was the proliferation of “short-fat” cartridges, and rifles to shoot them. […]
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