Outdoor Updates
A sleeper at Canemount WMA
Lincoln County hunter Ricky Case harvested a sleeping gobbler on Canemount WMA. While cleaning the turkey, he discovered two shotgun pellet wounds in its breast area. […]
Articles by Andy Douglas
Turkey Hunting
Mississippi approaching peak of turkey season
The very best of prime time Mississippi turkey hunting is almost here. If you’ve hoarded vacation time, it’s time to schedule it and get out in the woods. It’s time hunt and hunt hard ‘til the end. […]
Turkey Hunting
No fooling for April Fool’s Day
Lori Kennedy of Crystal Springs killed two gobblers, one being a huge double-bearded tom, on her first two turkey hunts ever. […]
Ducks
Creating a better wood duck hole
If you have a place that holds a few wood ducks and you want to make it better and attract more, think about building some wood duck boxes and placing them over or near the water. […]
Ducks
A typical day of hunting wood ducks
A typical day of chasing woodies with the author starts out a blind he’s constructed at a favorite, abandoned farm pond in the middle of some big timber. It has a beaver dam across the spillway and cypress trees growing on the shallow end. […]
Ducks
Backyard ducks
Duck hunting is becoming a favorite sport for many sportsmen and sportswomen. Considering all the gear needed, it can become expensive very quickly — especially if you have to pay to access good places near flyways with good numbers of mallards and pintails. […]
Deer Hunting
Club poll provides base of cost-saving ideas
Several hunting club presidents and/or board members surveyed about what they’ve done to help alleviate the financial burden their groups have faced volunteered some of their tactics to compensate for the rise in lease prices. […]
Deer Hunting
How to raise deer ‘clubbing’ to an art form in Mississippi
Tactics to keep hunting clubs vibrant and alive include changes in management of leased land, beyond just economic or membership moves. […]
Deer Hunting
Avoid the October Lull
It’s fall, and that means deer hunting has finally returned in Mississippi, with archers excitedly anticipating the Oct. 1 opening of bow season in four of the state’s five deer zones. […]
Bass Fishing
Classic baits for Mississippi’s state-lake bass
Opportunities abound in the Magnolia State for busting bass. Mississippi is full of time-proven lakes of the highest rank. Whether it’s lily pads in a cove, stands of cypress trees, flooded, dying timber, deep creek channels, grass beds, submerged trees or fields of stumps — we have it all.
Deer Hunting
Looking for land in all the right places
Here are some places where Mississippi hunters can look to find leases and where clubs can post to find members: […]
Deer Hunting
What should a hunter consider in a club?
Hunters have a long list of concerns on which to focus when it comes to finding the right club. Here are some questions that should be asked. […]