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Magazine ranks state in top 10 for trophy whitetail deer

MBJ Staff — Wed, 29 May 2013 11:35:41 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Outdoor Life’s June/July issue names Mississippi as one of its top 10 states to hunt whitetail trophy. After tallying the scores, Mississippi ranked seventh with an abundance of game to hunt, relatively low cost for guided hunts and hunter-friendly laws and regulations. The magazine uses real-world considerations to assess the top ten [...]

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Score bucks before taking that shot

John Woods — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:33:26 +0000

Did you read that right? Am I suggesting that big game hunters can actually score pre-harvest potential animals before they even start to hunt? Yep, that’s correct. More importantly this computer program is another way of helping to manage game animals by collecting additional critical data on game photographed on your hunting property. Serious hunters [...]

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Deer season predictions strong

John Woods — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:01:41 +0000

All indications point to the 2012-13 white-tailed deer hunting season in Mississippi to be one of the best on record. Of course, the bow hunters have been in the woods since the first of October and some reports are already coming in of hunters observing lots of deer and taking a few decent bucks. Hunters [...]

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City’s deer-culling program readying for potentially busy season

Associated Press — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:04:27 +0000

OXFORD — A warm winter and an abundant food supply have resulted in a larger deer population in Oxford. Jimmy Allgood, Oxford’s emergency management coordinator, tells the Oxford Eagle more fawns have been spotted this year. Allgood has been headed the city’s deer management program for almost four years. Allgood has worked along with the [...]

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Cartoon- March 5, 2012

Ricky Nobile — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:01:33 +0000

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Mississippi’s deer herd and hunting status

John Woods — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:00:45 +0000

It won’t be long now. Shots will be ringing out in the woods all across the state as the much anticipated deer hunting firearms seasons will commence before the end of the month is out. It is that favorite part of the whole year for tens of thousands of Mississippi outdoors people. Hunters, families, and [...]

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Deer-hunting bill dies in Legislature

Associated Press — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:08:04 +0000

JACKSON — A Senate committee has killed a bill that would have revised the dates for deer hunting seasons in Mississippi. The Senate Wildlife and Fisheries Committee met March 2 and chose not to vote on the bill. That killed it because March 2 was the deadline for House and Senate committees to act on [...]

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