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Blood-trailing dogs find Guillot’s trophy buck

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Elm Groves’s Rick Guillot, a 41-year-old registered nurse at Willis Knighton Hospital in Shreveport, has a pair of four legged friends to thank in locating a big buck he arrowed October 24. It is questionable if he would have been able to recover the eight-point Red River Parish buck without the expertise of two dogs trained to follow the trail of a wounded buck.

Big bucks starting to make the news

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Archery season for deer is underway in Louisiana and already some impressive bucks have been making the news.

The art of writing humor extends to outdoors

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As an outdoor writer for going on half a century, there is one style of writing I have always wanted to master, a style that I occasionally and accidentally stumble on but with no consistency: humo

Squirrel guns–the choice is yours

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It all started for me about as simple as could be.

Thoughts concerning kids, hunting

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What a blessing it was to have been reared and introduced to hunting by a dad who did it right. He started me at the bottom, tagging along behind him and watching how he did it.

Remembering puppy love after loss of old friend

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Dictionary.net says that puppy love is an informal term for feelings of love often felt during childhood and adolescence.

Yellow butterflies signal season changes

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I’ve about had a belly full of this year and what 2020 has thrown at us. First, the coronavirus has essentially shut us down.

LDWF accepting applications for CARES Act funding

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will soon begin accepting applications for $14.6 million in financial assistance that will be available to Louisiana fishermen and others in the i

A book for wildlife watchers

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I’m a hunter and there is nothing that gets my juices flowing better than to be sitting in my deer stand waiting for a buck or taking a seat on a moss-covered log watching for squirrels.

The little engine that could – and then couldn’t

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The year was 1998. The month was December. Think back with me if you will to the days just before Christmas. Remember the massive ice storm that turned northern Louisiana into props for Ice Capades?