Ooops!
Some days are better than others and this one didn’t start as a good one. Talked with a few folks and discovered the link I had sent out for The Clarion-Ledger Outdoors did not work properly. Not a...
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Something Under the Tree?
The demands of my job are hard on equipment. Very hard. Rain, snow, freezing temperatures, heat, bumps and scrapes are all part of it. Recently, after spending hours in the rain on Ross Barnett, trying...
View ArticleMDWFP Hunters’ Special
I just got an email from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and boy, do they have a deal for you. They are offering discounts on cabins and RV sites at select state parks for...
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Catquiver V Pack
Fumbling in the dark while looking for a flashlight so I could find my stand, I came to the conclusion it was time to get a pack dedicated to hunting. My large pack did not have enough exterior...
View ArticleHere we go again
Gee, it only seems like four years ago when we saw the last rush on guns due to possible political action. I made trips to every sporting goods shop in town and couldn’t find bullets, primers or...
View ArticleMississippi must be different
I read this morning where New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was quoted as saying “assault rifles” were not used for hunting deer. That got me thinking. (Look out.) Before I go any further, let me say this: I...
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Hand loading
I started hand loading ammunition over 20 years ago. My reasoning was simple; $17 was wayyyy too much to pay for a box of 45-70 ammunition. To me, prices like that were just short of highway robbery! I...
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Snowy morning in Mississippi
When you rarely have snow, it is an exciting event to wake up and see inches of it covering everything. I may get more excited than some; I was up watching it come down at 3 a.m. today. You can get...
View ArticleWatching gun control unfold
It is already happening, at least for New Yorkers. I was reading some posts on an outdoors online forum and ran across a guy trying to trade AR-15 magazines. He had some higher capacity magazines and...
View ArticleItalian Soup
It is hard to believe deer season is about to come to a close. Seriously, it seems like it just started yesterday and as usual, I was neither prepared as I wanted to be nor did I get to spend near the...
View ArticleBack at the reloading bench
With Christmas cash in hand, my son decided to buy a new .223 bolt action rifle for varmint hunting and some long range target work. He also wanted his own reloading equipment: something portable and...
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Stockpiling ammunition
Here we go yet again. I woke up this morning and started doing my usual internet check to see what is the hot topic right now and wouldn’t you know it, it’s ammo. This time, headline after headline...
View ArticleLee Precision and the .223
When I first started reloading, I decided on RCBS equipment and found everything they make to work flawlessly. That said, I never looked elsewhere. Each time I started loading a new caliber, I...
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Seafood Gumbo Promise
After making a pot of seafood gumbo last week and getting a lot of traffic on The Clarion-Ledger Outdoors Facebook photo I posted, I said I would post the recipe on my blog. The more I thought about...
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Lee Dies
I’ve been writing a lot about hand loading lately and I have focused on Lee products for the most part. There is a reason for both. For those of you who are tired of stores running out of ammo every...
View ArticleAn old boat
I have concluded that when you own an old boat, there is always a problem. A few months ago, my wife and several other friends and family members went out for a day on the water. Not long after, the...
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Breakfast casserole
As some of you already know, I do most of my own deer processing. Actually, the only thing I don’t do is make smoked sausage because I don’t have the right equipment for it. One of the things I like to...
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Where did it go?
Wow! March is all but here, deer season has past and duck season is long gone. I had so many plans and good intentions for the 2012-13 season. I was going to make at least a few trips for ducks, cook a...
View ArticleGame Face Pace
Given Cliff Pace’s reputation as serious, I was a little concerned about interviewing the 2013 Bassmaster Classic winner last week. Would he actually talk to me beyond one-word answers? Would he be...
View ArticleCold fronts and crappie
The weather pattern these days is almost ridiculous. It seems like there is some sort of front every few days and a stable pattern is having no front come through for four days. That makes fishing...
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