Deer Hunting
Jefferson County club drops deer-hunting rules for kids, grandkid
If the sport of hunting dies from lack of participation by today’s youth, it won’t be because of the Last Chance Hunting Club. […]
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Young Guns
Madison County cousins Trey and Swayze Bozeman are like a lot of youngsters in our state, as both love to deer hunt. But that’s where the comparison ends, as these youngsters have already become accomplished trophy hunters in their own right. […]
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The Old Traditional Deer Rub
The rut is close. By procreative instinct, a mature hefty 8-pointer traverses the land. Ascending a bluff ridge, the persistent male steadily climbs the steep vegetative terrain with ease. […]
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Ground Check
Before Hurricane Katrina, Washington Parish deer hunter Alan Williams hunted Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge from the ground because he wanted to. Now, more than six years after the historic hurricane, he hunts from the ground because he has to. […]
Deer Hunting
Big Buck Bounty awards Mississippi’s best bucks
The Magnolia State is home to so many trophy bucks that Mississippi hunters know there’s no need to hunt anywhere else. That’s why US 96.3 and Mississippi Sportsman magazine are teaming up to sponsor the Big Buck Bounty contest, which is open exclusively to deer killed in Mississippi. […]
Deer of the Year
Flora farmer arrows Madison County 14-point
John White had been watching a trio of bucks during late summer on the farm on which he lives, but one of the deer stood out from the rest. […]
Events & Announcements
November issue to begin hitting mailboxes next week
Mississippi Sportsman’s staff sent the November issue to the printer yesterday (Oct. 18). Subscribers can begin looking for it in their mailboxes on Monday (Oct. 24). […]
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Deer Dynamics: Signposting
Along the forest edge, a whitetail buck hesitates beneath the overhanging branches of a pine tree. Then with ease, the animal stretches its neck up toward a particular limb and begins to rub its mouth and forehead on the limb. Closing its eyelids, it resumes this behavior on the tree.
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Deer Hunting
Patience yields 150-inch Claiborne County trophy
Lots of Mississippi deer hunters claim to practice quality deer management, but few are more serious about it than Kolby Byrd of Bogue Chitto. This 20-year-old hunter already has a number of trophy whitetails under his belt, each attributed to following intensive deer management practices.
And while bowhunting a tract of family land near Hermanville on Oct. 6, Byrd was once again able to reap the rewards of his management efforts by arrowing a monster 9-pointer he had been watching for almost two years with the help of several trail cameras.
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Deer Dynamics: Hard Mast
A white-tailed buck leaves his bedding site in a stand of small pines. Instead of heading to the clover plot, he scales up a small ridge to seek out what is beneath the trees. […]
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Deer Dynamics: Early Summer Foliage
Once the green-up begins in the spring and early summer months, both bucks and does seek out flowering plants known as forbs. […]
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Deer of the Year
This past season was really one for the record books, with monster deer seemingly falling every week. The cold fronts that rolled through the state on a regular basis kicked deer movement into high gear, and hunters flocked to the woods to kill the big bucks as they moved about. […]