It almost took the entire season for Person County’s Phillip Scott to have a face-to-face encounter with a monster 11-pointer donning a drop tine, but Scott finally killed the deer on Dec. 13 on an early afternoon hunt. […]
Jeff Ferguson of Liberty, N.C., saw a big buck on Wednesday, Dec. 6, while scouting on a piece of land about 15 minutes from his house for a place to put up a climbing stand. The buck was so big, he almost immediately called his boss and asked what he needed to do to get Thursday off so he could hunt the buck. […]
The father and son team of Andy and Cody Lemere managed to close the books on a four year quest for an Oconee County buck late last month. Back in 2013, the Lemeres captured several photos on game camera of a nice buck that had shown up on the family farm near Walhalla. […]
Sevin Carter was short on hunting time while in the process of moving to a new home last month when he decided it was time to put a buck on the ground, even if it wasn’t the 11-pointer he’d been pursuing for over two years. […]
When Mike Vaughan of Bahama, N.C. shot a 136-inch 8-pointer with his Bowtech Prodigy bow in late November, he felt on top of the world and thought things couldn’t get any better until a 150-class deer appeared in a trail-camera photo on his 650-acre family farm in Granville County. […]
At the beginning of bow season in N.C.’s Central Deer season, RJ Seiler captured a stud buck on trail camera perusing one of his sites along a river bottom in Rockingham County. […]
For many months and sometimes years, hunters will target a certain deer. Mature bucks are experts at dodging hunters up until Jan. 1. For most hunters who hunt the same stands through the entire season, that can be a really long time. […]
When to harvest does is a hot topic among deer hunters. Some believe they should hold off until after the rut, because taking a doe before that time could cost a hunter a shot at a buck somewhere hiding in the wings. […]
In areas where baiting for deer is legal, most hunters don’t have to be coerced into hunting over corn. Mike Johnson at the Clinton House Plantation suggests that if you are going to use bait, don’t bait out in the open. […]
As winter approaches, the places deer frequently used earlier in the season are rarely hot spots. They were concentrated on peanut and soybean fields in September and acorn-rich oak flats during October and November, deer always move to different places as the seasons and local food sources change. […]
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