Deer Hunting
Top 12 deer-hunting mistakes
Even when the deer hunter does everything he or she thinks is correct, plenty of things can and usually do go wrong on a whitetail hunt. […]
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Deer Hunting
Antlerless limits changing
A subtle change in the wording of a regulation has major implications for Mississippi’s deer hunters, making it easier to accomplish management goals for harvesting antlerless deer on private lands. […]
Deer Hunting
Barnett Reservoir draw in August
Expanded hunting opportunities are included in Year 2 of draw deer hunting at Barnett Reservoir, the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District announced. […]
Deer Hunting
The DMAP Cooperator’s pay day
“One of the most frequently asked questions about joining the DMAP program is ‘what do we get out of it?” said Lann Wilf, the North Region Biologist. “It certainly is a fair question since we are asking these guys to spend an entire hunting season collecting data and sending it in for analysis.” […]
Deer Hunting
Contributions of doe harvests
Pitching the idea of harvesting antlerless deer is still a hard sell. In all the years of teaching hunter safety education even though as I counseled the participants that the course was not a “deer hunting” course, inevitably the discussions often turned to those subjects. […]
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Reading DMAP data
Basically they want better deer hunting where they hunt. This usually translates into the desire to grow and harvest bigger bucks, balance their deer herd to achieve a better buck-doe ratio, increase deer observations and take more direct control over the management fate of the deer they hunt. Naturally this is often much more easily talked about than accomplished. […]
Deer Hunting
Deer seasons: A lot less primitive
Like it or hate it, the biggest change in decades involving deer hunting in Mississippi will start during the 2014-15 seasons proposed by the Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. […]
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Legislature’s surprising move
I finally figured out why we had such a cold, long, late winter in Mississippi, and it has absolutely nothing to do with anything meteorological or any other science. […]
Deer Hunting
UFO headlighters? At least not poachers
If indeed space aliens are guilty of shining lights on Mississippi deer, we can be happy that they at least are not poachers.
No deer were shot in the making of this weird story. […]
Deer Hunting
Deer workshops for landowners, professionals
Managing deer herds will be the subject of two two-day workshops sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and Mississippi State University. […]
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Sausage-stuffed venison meatloaf
This recipe is something I had wanted to do for a while, and I had to experiment a bit to get it right. Several of the early attempts were actually pretty good, but just not what I was looking for. This is my base recipe, but I am constantly experimenting. I have a penchant for combining two things that taste good separately and seeing how they taste together. […]
Deer Hunting
Preparation meets opportunity
When selecting a monthly topic for Happy Trails, my usual goal is to write about something that will allow me to share the knowledge and experience that I have gained through more than 40 years of chasing whitetails. I also like to provoke thought and discussion about certain topics and issues. […]