Art Melancon was ready to go home after two weeks of relaxing, hunting and watching football games over the New Year’s holiday weekend.
After waking up on New Year’s Day and watching the New Orleans Saints, he wanted to load up and head back to Louisiana. But his wife wasn’t ready to go home yet. […]
All Johnnie Dupont could see of the big buck slipping along the ridge was the front shoulders and rear end.
But after seeing a few deer easing through the woods ahead of the hounds released for a Dec. 27 dog drive in the Homochitto National Forest, Dupont kept his eyes on this one that had stopped to look and listen. […]
Dusty Smith and his father have hunted at Giles Island for the last four years and come to enjoy their annual getaway to the renowned area northwest of Natchez.
Last season Smith killed a fine 8-point that scored about 120. When he and his father returned last autumn for their hunt, he couldn’t believe his good fortune when he knocked down another trophy buck. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Neil Waggoner and his family live on 40 acres he grew up loving, a familiar tract of gently rolling hills and a 10-acre lake surrounded by the Black Prairie Wildlife Management Area in Lowndes County.
For the last few weeks, Waggoner had been using his three tracking dogs to help other hunters. He also missed an 8-point buck that rattled him.
“Buck fever or I looked up or something, I guess,” Waggoner said.
A few days later on Dec. 18, amid an orange sunset casting enough light to make a set of antlers glow, Waggoner knew the big buck in the edge of the field was a good one. […]
Collin Ladner wasn’t thrilled about going back to camp for the night after seeing the biggest buck of his life scurry into the woods. […]
Gary Counts couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
Hunting the afternoon of Dec. 8 with his boss on private land in Yazoo County, Counts watched several does and small yearlings being chased by a doe. She zoomed around the planted food plot, running off one deer after another. […]
John Thomason’s emotions ran the gauntlet during the hours he spent planning his hunt, sitting in the stand and waiting to see if his shot was true. […]
With the wind howling and his 6-year old daughter wanting to go hunting the next day, all Stevie Dewease wanted to do was sit in a ladder stand and watch how the deer might react to a ground blind he’d put on the edge of the field a few days earlier.
Little did he know both of those efforts would result in a buck he’ll remember the rest of his life. […]
Max Lovertich had been bow hunting a few hours the morning of Oct. 15 when he just couldn’t stand it any longer. […]
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