James Hamby of Thomasville, N.C., has won Carolina Sportsman’s Bag-A-Buck contest for December with his entry of a big Randolph County buck he killed on Dec. 21. […]
As Kevin Bartlett of Black Mountain and his 11-year-old daughter, Addison sat side by side in their ladder stand on Thanksgiving morning, they knew two things: a 15-point buck was in the area and the wind was in their face, coming from the direction they expected him. […]
Deer hunting is one of the most-popular forms of outdoor recreation; its roots run deep in the Carolinas. Through modern technology and the availability of information — much through the social-media explosion — deer hunters are carrying out a new vision that is enhancing the herd. […]
With a borrowed rifle, and with his wife sitting in a nearby stand hoping to see a massive trophy buck they’d been tracking for more than 3 years in Caswell County, Mike Gibbs shot that very buck, a 17-point brute that has been green-scored at 170-inches. […]
Don’t give up on deer hunting just yet. Spend more time hunting around the heaviest cover you can find, and you’ll get plenty of chances. […]
Casey Haizlip, a 16-year-old sophomore at Western Alamance High School, is a member of the school’s dance team, but she had a different reason to dance the afternoon of Nov. 21 after she bagged a 16-point buck that had been hunted hard by most of her male relatives and other men in the community. […]
Randy Hobbs wasn’t planning on deer hunting on Nov. 5, the second Saturday of blackpowder season near his Gibsonville, N.C., home. He had a 10 a.m. meeting at the church he pastors, New Hope Baptist Church in Burlington. […]
Making a last minute decision put Burlington native, Steven Fazzino, on the map with a huge 155-inch Person County giant on Nov. 14. But, this wasn’t the first time Fazzino had looked at this massive mainframe 10. […]
Although crossbows have been around for thousands of years, until recently, their use for deer hunting has been legally limited or restricted in most of the country. […]
On Nov. 12, Clif Holloman of Pine Level, N.C. killed the biggest buck of his life, a mainframe 8-pointer with one scorable sticker that has been green-scored at 120 inches. A little over two weeks later, he killed a bigger one, an 11-point buck that scored 135 6/8 inches. […]
Copyright 1999 - 2026 Carolina Sportsman, Inc. All rights reserved.