It took more than a year, but one South Carolina hunter finally got the deer he almost missed out on thanks to 2016’s Hurricane Matthew. And it was a good one — a 12-point buck in velvet with an 18-inch inside spread. […]
William Johnson of Bamberg, South Carolina experienced an action-packed evening during his first deer hunt of the season on Aug. 21. After laying eyes on nearly a dozen deer in Allendale County and getting ready to seal the deal on a 10-point, he changed his mind when a tall-racked, 195-pound, 12-point slipped into his shooting lane. […]
The August heat didn’t keep Fairview’s Daphnie Hallman from going deer hunting on opening week. And the second day of the 2017 season ended victoriously for the Lexington County native with a fine eight-point buck with an 18-inch inside spread. […]
With one of the earliest deer seasons in the country, South Carolina hunters get the opportunity to take velvet bucks long before the rest of the country’s deer hunters are even thinking about looking at one of these mysterious beasts. […]
Fueled by trail cam pictures depicting a gang of nice bucks on one of his corn piles, Michael Jones of Gaston, S.C. was itching to get into the woods on opening day, Aug. 15. […]
Many times, especially early in the season, deer hunters pull the trigger too soon and never even know it. This happens when a decent buck walks into range and looks nervously into the woods, either in the direction where it came from or in another direction. […]
At about 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, the opening day of deer season in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, Steve Rodger felt about as low as a hunter could feel — lower to the ground than a Louisiana mud varmint, lower than a snake’s belly — you might say. […]
Opening day of deer season for a good portion of the Palmetto State was yesterday, and the early start has always given South Carolina hunters a unique opportunity to kill a buck in velvet. […]
It didn’t take deer hunters in North Carolina and South Carolina very long to make their marks this past fall. Even with a big crop of acorns on the ground in many places — usually a harbinger of a tough whitetail season — a lot of big bucks began falling in September, and they never quit. […]
Glen Lampley of Cheraw, S.C., will likely vote for 2016 as his favorite deer season, for two reasons. First, he killed a beautiful 8-point buck on Nov. 8, and then his entry in Carolina Sportsman’s Bag-a-Buck contest was drawn as the grand-prize winner. […]
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