Deer Hunting
Late-season food needs a plan
Providing late-season food for deer begins in late summer. Planning ahead helps to put the odds in your favor when Christmas is around the corner.
Articles by Pete Rogers
Deer Hunting
Staying warm is a key to success when deer hunting
Staying warm late in deer season can be a challenge for many hunters. Cold sits on the stand are not fun, regardless of the time of year.
Content
Deer in the 11th-hour
The temperature hovered around 25 degrees. As the light began to fade, crystals of frost started to form, and my breath rose into the cold morning air as I surveyed the edge of a field for any movement.
Content
5 deer calibers that can’t be beat
The debate over the best rifle calibers for deer has been going on as long as hunters have sat around campfires. In the Carolinas, the array of calibers is as wide as the beaches that run along both states. Narrowing the list down to five is, well, challenging.
Hunting
South Carolina WMAs: Few issues with safety exist
As a group, hunters are an opinionated crowd., and many opinions are based on feelings rather than fact.
Hunting
Don’t avoid public-land whitetails
More and more hunters are looking past public land in favor of joining hunt clubs and leases. It seems they are more willing to spend a lot of money to hunt on with others on a few hundred acres of land rather than spend $30.50 for access to hundreds of thousands of acres of WMA land.
Deer Hunting
The five P’s of shooting practice
Ralph Cianciarulo developed a saying when teaching people proper shooting techniques: “Proper Practice Promotes Perfect Placement.”
Content
Get bow season off to a good start
Finally, after a long layoff, hunters are getting back into the woods, but many who venture into the sweltering deer stands of early archery season are doing so unprepared.
Deer Hunting
Five best handguns for whitetails
Selecting the right handgun for hunting whitetail deer can be daunting, in part because there are so many excellent options. This list of five only scratches the surface, but these are some of the finest handguns available for whitetail hunters. […]
Sidebars
Try the “other” three mouth calls
Mention mouth calls to a turkey hunter, and diaphragm calls will come to most minds.
Sidebars
Alternative weapons for squirrels
Air guns have been gaining popularity in recent years, and with the advent of sporting air rifles, more hunters are hunting squirrels with air rifles. At limited ranges, with good head shots, these rifles can be a great challenge.
Content
Three techniques to bag bushytails
Like many of my generation I cut my teeth in the outdoors hunting squirrels along creeks and pastures. I will always remember my first successful hunt, sitting under a large cedar tree near an old abandoned farm house, motionless, imagining the family that used to call this place home, daydreaming of children playing under the tree, of chickens scratching for food and fields of cotton, corn and vegetables where giant trees now stand.