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Cover: October 2010 (SC)
Do you know where your bucks will be during this year’s rut? Read this issue to find out. […]
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Make the Most of the Rut
The rut is a special time for South Carolina deer hunters. For most, it’s the prime time to get the drop on a trophy buck. It’s the one time of the year when the monster bucks let their “survival” guard down just a bit and make mistakes they normally don’t make, enabling hunters to harvest big deer that otherwise are too stealthy or have simply become nocturnal. […]
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Deer Dynamics: Communication
Scent pheromones and their distinct odors are instinctively utilized by whitetails to convey a realm of communication related to dominant hierarchy and sexual interactions. […]
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Marsh Rail Roads
Fly, damn it! Shooting them is easy; the toughest job with marsh hens is making them fly. […]
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Slabs on the Move
If you’re looking for excellent crappie fishing this fall, look no further than Lake Greenwood. […]
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Speck-tacular!
You can watch the Weather Channel or call “time and temperature,” but you still never know what kind of conditions await you in Charleston come October. […]
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Cross ‘em Up
The scene could have been taken directly from a 1980s Vietnam-era war movie, only in this case, the unsuspecting victim wasn’t a soldier, but a respectable 8-point whitetail buck, and the backdrop was the shoreline of Lake Hartwell, not the Mekong Delta. […]
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Whitetail Heaven
Halifax and Northampton counties on the Roanoke River are North Carolina’s top two counties in terms of total harvest, but they’re producing more quality bucks because of local management techniques. Here’s how. […]
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Hot Halloween Specks
Four Octobers ago, two fishermen from New Bern and a friend met for a fishing trip to the North River near Beaufort. […]
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Drum Up a Bite
At 3:30 a.m. on a Friday in late October, Mike Frick napped in a canvas camp chair whose legs dug deep into the sand beside his Ford F-250 pickup truck. […]