Deer Hunting

Explore how Louisiana's 2024-25 deer season could shape up, with insights on weather, habitat, and challenges like CWD and feral hogs.

A Lafayette woman harvested the deer of a lifetime this past weekend while hunting on some family land in St. Landry Parish.

In 2018 the CDC issued a warning to Louisiana hunters about "Zombie Deer". Now, the Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is reporting a total of 19 deer afflicted with chronic wasting disease.

It's a 15-point buck with a perfectly symmetrical double row of tines. Louisiana hunters, we've got the pictures because we know you want to see.

A Mississippi hunter bags the deer of a lifetime. The 29-point buck has a rack of more than 205 inches and we've got pictures.

Louisiana hunters are being cautioned after a mountain lion was seen on a trail camera in an area popular with many Louisiana sportsmen.

A LDWF agent in the area witnessed the man entering his home with a rifle at the time of the shooting. Now residents want justice.

Now's the time to start planning those weekends in the woods. Here's what you need to know about all of Louisiana's 10 deer hunting areas.

The Department of Wildlife has begun a COVID testing program among deer harvested in the state.

Louisiana sportsmen can win big money and help save the state's deer population at the same time thanks to a new incentive from the Department of Wildlife.

Any North Louisiana hunter can tell you that one of the biggest hassles of preparing for the new season each year is battling all the wasps that moved in.

President Jason Vanderbrink says, "we're making more hunting ammo than we ever have; we just can't keep up."

Through evidence obtained on his phone, wildlife officials were able to arrest 3 additional people and charge them with crimes.

The men were cited by the Department of Wildlife Agents for illegally bringing deer carcasses from Texas into Louisiana.

Deer hunting in portions of Deer Area 5 in the Atchafalaya Basin has been closed due to flooding, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Here's a big heads up if you plan on hunting this deer season in Louisiana. A newly instituted "LDWF Rule" for the 2016-2017 season could catch many law-abiding hunters off guard and ruin your day of hunting. Here's what's going on.

If you're going to illegally take a deer from the wild, it would probably be smart if you didn't brag about it on Facebook.

Some people use guns to bring down a deer. I used a Toyota Camry to get mine.

The trouble with deer is they don't understand the concept of paved roads. To them the paved road is a place to roam freely without fear unless that paved road happens to be a race track.

I've got a question for the ladies. Do you like to hunt, or would you not be caught dead holding a gun of some sort pointing it at "poor defenseless Bambi?"