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06/18/2026

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06/12/2026

Commercial Alligator Season Lottery

Louisiana will be holding a lottery for some Wildlife Management areas, Open Lakes, and Corps of Engineers land across Louisiana.

The lottery is now open if you would like to apply. There is a $5 application fee with a $3.50 transaction fee. If you get picked, you must purchase a $25 alligator hunting license, along with $40 for each alligator allotted.

So let's recap all the fees: updated

1). $5 application fee
2). $3.50 processing
3). $25 alligator hunting license
4). $40 A PIECE for each alligator
X 3 = $120.00

So it will cost a minimum of $153.50 if you were chosen and would like to participate in the commercial alligator hunting lottery in Louisiana.

06/10/2026

What Are Deer Eating?

Right now? Probably everything and anything. It is the time of plenty for Whitetail in Louisiana.

They do not have to move much to feed. Food is everywhere and plenty of it.

Pretty much stand up eat, lay down sleep, repeat.

Dave Moreland writes a good article on the subject, that was recently published in the Louisiana sportsman magazine...

06/05/2026

Velvet Buck Season and CWD

Can it get any more complicated?

The control of CWD will blow your mind in Louisiana...

See what else the Louisiana legislature has come up with to monitor chronic wasting disease in Louisiana this year....?.

Stay tuned, it really gets complicated.

06/04/2026

Public land should stay public.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy has drafted legislation that would transfer roughly 140,000 acres of the Kisatchie National Forest, nearly a quarter of Louisiana’s only national forest, from federal ownership to local control in Grant Parish.

Once public land leaves the National Forest System, there is no guarantee it stays public forever. Kisatchie belongs to every American and provides valuable access for hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation. The risk of future development, land sales, or restricted access simply isn’t worth it.

Sportsmen have fought for generations to secure and protect public access. We shouldn’t be giving it away.

Aaron B. Futrell, Author|Owner, Delong Lures

05/30/2026

The Rut On Public Land

When was the last time you saw a full rut on public land in Louisiana?

You know, when you witness a Mature Buck chasing a doe, and hear grunts off in the distance before you actually see the chase.

Well, for most public land deer hunters in Louisiana, that is an extremely rare occurrence in the light of day. Most public areas in Louisiana are exposed to a lot of Hunter pressure. Starting in early October hunters are in the woods constantly either scouting or hunting squirrels, doves, rabbits, hogs, etc.. so most deer that are over a year and a half old, that have survived 2 years of intense hunting pressure, have changed their ways of the way they act in daylight.

Most of the rut and mating takes place at night time. And at best, public land deer hunters can catch the tail end of chases early in the morning before the activity subsides.

If you have traveled to the Midwest during the pre-rut and rut in early November, you will hear the sounds and see the sights of how the whitetail Deer rut is supposed to be.

Even on public lands.....

05/29/2026

Rules for deer baiting change following Louisiana Legislature resolution Sen. Glenn Womack says they worked with LDWF to adjust rules to limit spread of CWD

05/28/2026

I’ve already had a few hunters message me saying they plan on hunting less in the coming seasons because of new NRC regulations. To me, that’s heartbreaking. We should be finding ways to get people out in the woods more, not less.

Let's be completely honest with each other. The state wants more antlerless deer harvested in a lot of areas. But are new regulations going to force hunters to shoot more does, or is it just going to reduce their overall time in the field? Time will tell.

If we want hunters to voluntarily tag more does without slapping on more regulations, we have to talk about the real-world roadblocks holding hunters back:
❌ Access & Private Property: A ton of deer are holed up on private land where hunters have strict self-imposed limits, or neighbors won't allow access. Meanwhile, public land gets hammered.

❌ Processing Costs: With the cost of everything going up, dropping $150–$200+ to process a doe you might just end up giving away is a tough pill to swallow for a lot of working families.

❌ Broad-Brush Regulations: Not every square mile of Michigan is created equal. While some areas are overrun with does, other areas are struggling and actually need a reduction in doe tags, not more pressure.

So, what’s the cure? How do we fix this without more red tape?

Do we need better "Sportsmen Against Hunger" style programs where processing is 100% free for donated deer?
Do we need better incentives for private landowners to let hunters in just for antlerless harvest?
Or do we just need to shift our culture to celebrate a fat doe just as much as a buck?

👇 Drop your thoughts below. What would honestly incentivize YOU to shoot more does, and what do you think it's going to take to keep hunters in the woods this fall? Let’s talk about it.

05/26/2026

Gas Prices Could Fall Faster Than a 38 Special at 100 yd

If everyone would stop driving their automobiles for one day out of the week for unnecessary trips, the price of gasoline would fall faster than a bullet shot out of a 38 special!

Oil producing companies are raking in unbelievable profits. These companies never predicted that Trump would start a war that would cut off 20% of the crude oil that's produced in the world.

The truth be known, the United States does not need a single drop of that 20%. As a matter of fact we produced more oil than any country in the world. We produce more oil than we can use on a daily basis. We're a net exporter of oil to other parts of the world.

If the oil companies had a conscience, they would give each state the millions or billions of dollars they are making off this inflated price of oil to repair roads and bridges.

Of course they have no conscience.

But for sure, that will not stop the public land deer hunters across Louisiana from hitting the woods this fall, no matter what the price!

05/23/2026

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Vidalia, LA
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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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http://louisianapubliclanddeerhunterassociation.org/

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