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Cover: October 2009
Lots of hunters use trailcams, but few employ them with as much tenacity — and success — as Travis Murray. […]
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3 Bow Pros’ Top Tips
If Robin Hood only had known what Mississippi’s Will Primos, Preston Pittman and Ronnie Strickland know, he could have fed fresh venison to all the peasants of Nottingham. […]
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Say Cheese!
There was an absolute monster easing through the thicket, and the sight sent Travis Murray’s heart into palpitations. The Crosby hunter had been chasing the 11-point all bow season, beginning by climbing high into trees with spurs, and finally settling into the pop-up blind in which now he sat. […]
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Delta Tree Rats
This account describes the final scene in the story as young Ike McCaslin emerges from the forest and finds veteran woodsman Boon Hogganbeck working frantically to put his malfunctioned gun back together at the base of a lone gum tree near the forest edge. […]
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Luck of the Draw
Ask a bowhunter if he’d rather be lucky or good. The smart ones will choose luck every time. […]
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Scouting Without Spooking
A deer hunter’s greatest fear is bumping into a trophy class buck. By “bump” we mean an accidental encounter that blows the buck out of the immediate area and could very possibly result in permanently spooking the trophy off the property. […]
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Hunting the Zoo
The opening could be seen through the trees as I eased toward the food plot. When the path made a final turn, I could see the green patch ahead. I slowed down and worked my way around a huge mud hole, easing toward the end of the trail just in case deer had already made it to the food plot. […]
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Big Deer, This Year, Part II
Last month, Mississippi Sportsman profiled two different land managers about their philosophies and practices for establishing and maintaining quality deer herds on their properties. […]
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Top Bow WMAs
When the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission began in 1932, the Hospitality State was practically devoid of whitetails. In fact, only about 1,500 deer lived in the state, and those were located in largely inaccessible areas in the bottomlands of the major rivers. […]
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Two-week bow season prep plan
What would you say was one of the most inexcusable acts in deer hunting? Certainly the list could be quite long. But perhaps at the top of the order is when a hunter falters on the most elemental responsibility of undertaking proper preseason preparation. […]
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2009-10 WMA Forecast
Drought was the biggest concern of most wildlife management area managers throughout most of the state going into the dog days of summer. […]
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WMA Wastelands?
There is a common misconception among many deer hunters that public land — wildlife management areas in particular — are vast wastelands where orange-clad wanderers roam the woods from daylight until dark. […]