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April 30, 2026

Learning to use squirrel calls — and being an accurate shot with a .22-caliber rifle — will put more bushytails in a hunter’s game bag.

Squirrel Talk

“Listen, I can hear two gray squirrels and one fox squirrel barking,” I said, whispering to my son after making a young-squirrel-in-distress call. […]

Veteran hunters recommend infrequent grunt calls or horn rattling sequences. Fifteen to 20 minutes between sessions is enough.

Magic Time

Scott Keepfer

It has been 15 years since Dennis Chastain bagged his buck of a lifetime, but he remembers the hunt as if it happened yesterday. […]

River catfishing is basically simple and a lot of fun for one person or a boatload of anglers.

Cool Cats

Terry Madewell

Catfishing has become a year-round sport for many South Carolina anglers. […]

Ideal fall water temperatures for kings are 68 to 69 degrees. Temps usually drop a degree for each 10 feet of depth.

Kings of Thanksgiving

Walt Rhodes

The Pilgrims had it right when they gave thanks in November. […]

Cover: October 2006 (NC)

North Carolina Sportsman

You can grow trophy bucks on just about any land. […]

This feisty bass hit near the area where the Uwharrie River flows into Lake Tillery.

Yadkin on the Fly

Tony Garitta

Fly-fishing evokes images of bubbling streams winding their way along pebble and rocky bottoms amidst mountainous terrain in the western reaches of North Carolina. […]

White-tailed bucks like to travel in thick places, but they’ll often venture into the open during late October as they seek does.

Lifetime Buck

Dan Kibler

Jordan Barnes isn’t a run-of-the-mill 10-year-old boy. […]

Small-size pointing dogs that work close are good choices for grouse hunters. Wide-ranging pointers probably should stay at home.

Mountain Magnets

Don Mallicoat

Ginny’s high tail, flaring nostrils and the intensity of her point told me she had a snoot full of bird scent. […]

Bill Barrett knocked down this big wild pig at Howell Woods last year.

While N.C. legislators wrangled with pork-barrel spending from a $2.1-billion surplus, Luke Vande Guchte of Wake Forest knew what his family would be spending some of their money for – a taxidermy mount of his first big-antlered buck deer. […]

Neil Alford of Raleigh, who tagged N.C.’s No. 1 non-typical muzzle-loader trophy last year, said his food plot has attracted three more trophy bucks.

Basket Racks to Rocking Chairs

Craig Holt

Some white-tailed deer hunters like to place their stands atop ridges; some prefer hardwood slopes with dropping acorns; and some set up close to scrapes or where they’ve discovered big rub trees. […]