Deer Hunting
Trophy management not for the faint of heart
A lot of hunters talk about managing their deer to produce trophies, but few are willing to take the steps necessary to actually follow through. […]
Month: July 2010
Events & Announcements
MS-Sportsman.com forum updated
MS-Sportsman.com took a quantum leap today by upgrading its forum to include many new functions including video embedding, profile photos and inclusion of photos throughout threads. […]
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Hog Season
What do you think of when you hear the word “hawg?” Arkansas football? Motorcycles? Gigantic largemouths? […]
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Cover: August 2010
This is the month of the Extravaganza, and that means deer season is just around the corner. Read the special section in this issue to make sure you’re in the right place at the right time. […]
Hunting
MINOX Compact Flashlight
At less than 4 inches long and weighing only 2.6 ounces, the new MINOX CFL 1 Compact Flashlight is incredibly easy-to-carry, powerfully bright and fully waterproof. […]
Bass Fishing
Leaf River is a summertime gem
This month, I’ll be floating the Leaf River between Hebron and Moselle, which is a beautiful stretch of water that twists and winds through some of the prettiest country in Mississippi. Also, it has nice-looking banks, good cover, eddy breaks and other ideal habitat for spotted bass, and receives very little fishing pressure. […]
Fishing
Plug and play beats plug and pray
Bad connections can cause your electronics to do things that are science-fiction strange. They can cause simple problems like a unit failing to power-up, but they prefer to hide behind sneaky, intermittent troubles that could be caused by dozens of things. The complete list of possible problems (if you could make a complete list) wouldn’t fit on this page. […]
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Crappie club keeps tourney fishing fun
The Magnolia Crappie State Championship was held at Ross Barnett in June, and the two-day tournament was won by a team pulling crankbaits. In fact, the top-three teams pulled crankbaits, and that’s all we did. We didn’t pick up a jig pole or buy a minnow. […]
Hunting
Buying into bowhunting tech trends
The hard part about evaluating archery gear is trying to separate the buzz-word hype from real performance. Often we are sold on mere catch phrases conjured up by marketing and sales magicians working in the smoke-filled back rooms apart from product development and manufacturing. […]
Bass Fishing
Where did all the bass go?
Hundreds of bass tournaments are held each year on Mississippi lakes, reservoirs and rivers, and some anglers attribute declines in bass populations to tournaments. The “tournament issue” is neither new nor restricted to Mississippi. […]
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Deer Dynamics: Hard Mast
A white-tailed buck leaves his bedding site in a stand of small pines. Instead of heading to the clover plot, he scales up a small ridge to seek out what is beneath the trees. […]
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Power Trip
To the uninitiated angler, the pontoon boat motoring across the early morning water looked like a Chinese fire drill minus the firemen. Every rod displayed across the front of the ‘toon had a hard bend in it — the rod tips almost dragging in the water. […]