Deer of the Year
Prayer leads to 170-inch buck for Monroe County youth hunter
Caleb Smart has a simple routine he follows every time he heads to the woods for a deer hunt. […]
Month: January 2012
Events & Announcements
Arrest made in killing of Amite County black bear
An unidentified suspect has been arrested in the killing of a tagged black bear in Amite County after the alleged shooter confessed, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks said Monday (Jan. 9).
The investigation began Dec. 19 after MDWFP received an anonymous call reporting a bear had been killed in the Busy Corner community. The agency worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work the case. […]
Breaking News
Rives rings in New Year with another pending state-record archery buck
Will Rives hadn’t been seeing many deer while bow hunting on the Jefferson County piece of property. In fact, it’d been a rotten year.
“I haven’t hardly seen any deer,” the die-hard Natchez hunter said. “I had been hunting hard for four days, and I saw two yearlings.”
So he made a change of plans, which didn’t produce numbers of deer but did put a 180-class 12-point in front of him on Jan. 2. And Rives didn’t miss. […]
Featured Story
Wayne County deer herd gets a little thinned
Eastcentral Mississippi isn’t known for producing bucks that are even in the same category as the trophies that hail from the Delta, but what the area certainly doesn’t lack is numbers.
Perhaps that’s part of the problem. […]
Deer of the Year
Love-sick buck turns out to be record Lauderdale County monster
Blake Benefield saw the monster buck pop out of the tree line Jan. 2 hot on the heels, or hooves, of a few does and knew it was a good one. […]
Deer of the Year
Sunflower County gives up 187-inch typical buck
Brian Andrus got a second chance at the buck of his lifetime Nov. 28, and made it pay off by downing one of the great typical bucks of the 2011-12 hunting season. […]
Deer Hunting
dusty_smith, Rcketop, monthly user contests
User dusty_smith was named the December winner of the Nikon Big Buck Contest, while Rcketop won the final round of the 2011 Trail Cam Contest. […]
Featured
Greater amberjack fishing management plan topic of public hearing
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will hold a public hearing Wednesday (Jan. 11) just outside of New Orleans during which anglers can comment on how greater amberjack will be managed off the Mississippi coast. […]
Deer of the Year
Hunt that starts out all wrong ends with 160-class WMA tropy buck
Jeffrey Byrd’s day didn’t start off with a promising outlook.
The giant whitetail he dropped Dec. 1 that green scored 167 3/8 and had bases of almost 7 inches made thoughts of his crazy morning disappear, however. […]
Deer Hunting
Voting cranks up in Nikon Big Buck Photo, Trail Cam contests
Voting has begun to determine the winners of the December edition of the Nikon Big Buck Photo and Trail Cam contests. […]
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. […]
General
One gun theory
An old chestnut states “Beware the man with one gun.”
The premise is, if a man has only one gun, he’s going to do all his shooting with just that gun, and he might well be able to outshoot you. […]