What was supposed to be a non-typical deer hunt quickly turned into something completely different. Non-typical because we were hunting with handguns in the pursuit of a bit more challenge than the usual shoulder-mounted deer rifle and big-end scope. Turns out for a few minutes another quarry in the woods may have been stalking us. […]
With some of the highest deer densities in the nation and a hunting season that spans over a third of the year, one would assume that scoring on a Mississippi trophy whitetail would be an easy task. However, the reality is that many Magnolia State hunters find themselves empty-handed going into the New Year, and are ready to call it quits. […]
While the Mississippi River was far from setting any kind of record for flood stages, duck hunters from all across the state agreed that the 2009-10 duck season was a wet one. Many hunters reported that there was just too much water, especially in the Delta region, for ducks to have to commit to just one area to feed and loaf. […]
Many hunters get their fill during Christmas break, which means there are fewer humans in the woods to pursue the last of the trophies. […]
Designed to provide added support to trucks carrying extra weight on the front, Firestone Industrial Products has announced their new Work-Rite Suspension Kits. […]
Everyone has an opinion on what happened to the quail. Pesticides, fire ants and predators are the top three responses typically heard from old bird hunters. No doubt, these three factors probably played a part, but when you ask the biologists what is the main reason for the statewide population decline, you get another answer. […]
December 21, is my birthday. This year my son Hal, my grandson,Jimmy and I were hunting at Itta Bena Hunting club, as usual.
Jimmy had been hunting with me, trying to kill his fourth buck (he is 10 years old). This morning Hal had taken Jimmy duck hunting, where he killed his first duck in the air. This gave me a little time to hunt alone. […]
“They” say there are no places left to deer hunt in Mississippi. “All” the good public land is way too overcrowded to fool with hunting there. “Too” many out-of-state license plates always line up the few available parking areas. “Road riders” spend all day cruising the forest roads looking for targets of opportunity. “Forest trails” twist and turn everywhere making it too hard to find your way around the wildlife management areas. […]
Will Rives wasn’t out to kill a state-record deer when he went bow hunting Dec. 14, but that’s exactly what he left the woods with.
Now Rives tells the story of the kill, in his own words, in this MS-Sportsman.com video interview. […]
Editor’s note: This buck was later certified as the state-record archery buck, topping the category in the Magnolia Records at 172 4/8 Pope & Young.
Will Rives is a die-hard hunter who is lucky enough to hunt almost every day during the winter. But on Dec. 15, he woke up at 4:30, got dressed and stepped outside to find a south wind and 60-degree weather – and then promptly walked back inside, crawled in bed and went back to sleep.
“That’s not like me, it usually doesn’t matter if it’s 80 outside,” Rives said. “When we knock off (of work) for the wintertime, I hunt every day. I’m relentless.” […]
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.
But what you do now may determine whether you recover your trophy. […]
A 112-acre cedar thicket may not seem like prime woods for killing trophy bucks, but then again, it depends on where the thicket is. The cedar thicket David Coleman hunts is apparently in exactly the right spot. […]
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