Deer Hunting
Want quality deer? Don’t take summer off
Last month, we discussed the critical importance of investing time and money in establishing spring and summer food plots plus advocating springtime habitat alteration projects. […]
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Home on the Range
In the poem penned by Brewster Higley in 1873 that later became the State Song of Kansas, Home on the Range lyrics included the most noted line: “Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play.” […]
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2008-09 Deer of the Year
Mississippi’s run of trophy bucks continues. Here are some of the monsters that skilled and, sometimes, lucky hunters took this season. […]
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Late-Season Buck Strategies
Kevin Coughran’s swan song is one that is often played out about the time the holiday-season deer hunting has ended and almost everyone is back at work. If that big buck is not already at the taxidermist by now, a great many deer hunters are starting to think recliners, football playoffs, warm fireplaces, even spring fishing and turkey hunting. […]
Deer Hunting
For best results, avoid taking culls
The debate is fully entrenched now. It crept in through the back door, but now it pops up all over the place. It certainly caught me off guard. In fact, I probably would never have seen the issue on the Mississippi deer hunting radar screen if a co-worker had not mentioned it to me. […]
Deer Hunting
Now’s the time to bag your trophy
Gather around the campfire boys, it’s time for some soapbox preaching. It’s the heat of the deer hunting season. Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot and the whitetail buck testosterone is running wild. […]
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CSI:Mississippi
Your heart is still pounding uncontrollably as the overdose of adrenaline rushes through your veins. Only seconds have passed since you squeezed the trigger on the biggest buck you’ve ever seen. Everything happened so fast that it almost seemed like a dream. […]
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Cover: November 2008
Mississippi Hunters are experts a coming up with out-of-the-box methods for luring big bucks into range. […]
Deer Hunting
My all-time favorite camp revealed
No doubt the question I’m asked most often is “What’s your favorite Mississippi hunting camp?” […]
Deer Hunting
Is vanilla your favorite rifle flavor?
Wake-up calls can come from the strangest places at the strangest times. While attending a gun show in Jackson a few months back, I got a rude awakening from a guy walking the show floor. I was carrying a Remington 700 Mountain Rifle with the detachable magazine, which is no longer made, with the intent to sell or trade it. […]
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Happy Trails
Deer hunters are always looking for an edge to help them harvest that buck of a lifetime, and as any successful deer hunter will acknowledge, information is the most valuable resource when hunting trophy whitetails. […]
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Big Bucks on Small Plots
Clayton Brister Jr. of Monticello has proved the old adage “less is more”, especially when planning green fields and plots for big bucks. Most hunters search for large tracts of land to hunt, thinking that the more property they have to hunt, the more and bigger bucks they can take. […]