Jeff North
My thoughts drifted like leaves falling in October while coming up with an article this week. The hunting season for the most part, at least as far as I am concerned, is done. Should I write on happenings this winter or should I venture to...
Balmy weather with swirling winds, mosquitoes buzzing, sweat in the duck blind or deer stand. Does this sound like typical Mississippi weather that creates havoc with hunting and diminishes our interest of even remotely thinking of venturing...
They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. You would think that I could do a better job marking the entrances into my secluded haunts, but the serpentine trails that I travel say otherwise. I also try to minimize...
Why do they fall? I’m not talking about mallards falling from the skies from a barrage of number 2s in flooded timber, nor am I talking about doves hitting the packed soils from an October dove hunt. I am speaking of the thin pieces of...
Most of our hunting endeavors, and fishing too for that matter, involve some type of deception. It may be trying to fool a group of mallards with decoys, it could involve tricking a wary gobbler with seductive yelps from an artificial call...
Last week’s cold front marked the beginning of the best time of the year, in my opinion. Cotton and soybean harvests came to a brief stop before clear skies and a stiff north wind allowed the fields to be inhabited once again by combines...










