Monty Braley already had killed a couple of bucks when he arranged another trip to some Wilkinson County family land that for years had been off limits, but the Clinton hunter was ordered to up his standards for the hunt. […]
Deer Management Zone 1
Zone 1 includes private and open public lands east of Interstate 55 and north of Interstate 20, and lands south of I -20 and east of U.S. Highway 61. Excludes areas south of U.S. Highway 84 and east of state Highway 35. […]
Stan McCollough knew there big deer on Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, so he was ecstatic when he and buddy Justin Vandevender were drawn for the muzzleloader hunt on Dec. 9-14. […]
It was before sunrise on the morning of Sunday, December 13, 2009, when 6-year-old Cullen Edmonston looked at the cover of a hunting magazine and said, “Daddy, I’m going to kill one like that this morning.” Little did they know the statement was soon to be a true one. […]
The majority of Pearl River Wildlife Management Area will close tomorrow (Dec. 16) because of flooding, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced today. […]
One of those bucks that only comes along once in a lifetime as they say, happened by 8-year-old third grader Griffin Dulaney of South Jackson on Nov. 29 at 5:25 in the evening.
Dulaney patiently waited the buck out, and is now waiting on the drying period to get a final Boone & Crockett score. […]
Old-school deer hunters used to have a clear idea of what was meant by the term “primitive weapon” when it was applied to deer hunting. However, since the rule changes in 2005, the clarity of the term has gotten considerably cloudier. So let’s shed some light on its current status. […]
I remember the first Ruger 10-22 carbine I came across. […]
If you’re a deer hunter you wait all year for this. Read this issue to make sure you make the most of your time afield during the 2009-10 rut. […]
OK, I confess. I was napping a little. Well, I was napping a lot. Yeah, I was asleep, but I was safely strapped into a 16-foot-tall ladder stand overlooking a harvested corn field with plenty of remaining cob litter as well as a green plot of ryegrass, wheat and kale. […]
The lonely, wailing cry of a wood duck hen greeted the morning as pink daylight edged farther across the sky.
As winter approaches the Magnolia State, weather conditions usually turn nasty. Duck hunters love late winter because it’s typically when we get the coldest weather and plenty of water. Deer hunters like it cold, too, because the deer move more in search of food. […]
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