Deer of the Year Archives - Carolina Sportsman

July 18, 2025

The 2024 deer hunting season was a very good one for hunters across North and South Carolina. […]

Rex Blackburn won the Carolina Sportsman 2023 Bag-A-Buck Grand Prize. Check out the two bucks he killed during the season. […]

Mallary Ann Matthews of Alcolu, SC became the first entrant in our 2023 Bag A Buck Contest with her 7-point velvet buck from Aug. 12. […]

The 2022 deer hunting season was another big one for hunters across the Carolinas. […]

Adam Revels killed two Johnston County trophy bucks during North Carolina’s 2023 deer hunting season. He recounts his season here. […]

Alan Mashburn killed a trophy Lee County, NC buck on Nov. 28, 2022. It’s a buck he’d watched for several years. […]

Jamie Poe of Siler City, NC killed a 23-point buck in Chatham County on Nov. 21, 2022 during an evening hunt. […]

Brooke Parker killed a buck she’d been targeting for a quite a while in Johnston County, NC on Dec. 15, 2022. […]

Cade Ransom killed his best buck, a 10-point from Bladen County, NC on Nov. 12, 2022. […]

Just a few weeks after killing a giant Durham County, NC buck, JT Coley bagged an even bigger trophy on Oct. 1, 2022. […]