Deer Hunting Archives - Page 139 of 247

Just after his 21st birthday, Lawrence Green of Wake Forest killed this trophy buck that he'd been observing on trail cameras for some time.

Wake Forest hunter bags massive 8-point buck

A potential Pope and Young on opening day is about the best birthday surprise that any diehard hunter could yearn for. And during the first hour of daylight on the opening morning of the North Carolina 2016 Archery Season, Lawrence Green of Wake Forest was in the right place at the right time when a massive 141-inch eight pointer stepped out of the woods and right into Green’s lethal territory just two weeks after his 21st birthday. […]

Big bucks can thrive on small tracts of land that many hunters overlook, especially those closer to developed areas that traditionally are not hunted.

It’s not too late to look for land

Jeff Burleson

Every now and then, hunters get stuck in a predicament close to the opening of deers season when their opportunity to hunt a property vanishes. It’s tough to shoot a wallhanger without having a tract of land to hunt. […]

Kelly Sutton missed much of the 2015 season due to an unexpected cancer diagnosis, but he's already making up for it, starting with this 10-pointer.

Morrisville hunter kills 10-point trophy

Jeff Burleson

Aren’t hunters forced to lease massive tracts of land to get access to mature bucks? Not necessarily. While some hunters believe it is critical to secure large 1,000-acre tracts, Kelly Sutton of Morrisville takes a mature buck every year from one of his small 15-acre leases with barely enough real estate available to erect a single stand. And on the opening day of North Carolina’s 2016 archery season, Sutton followed through by bagging and tagging a huge 10 pointer minutes before dark on his Wake County lease. […]

Dale Wolfe watched this buck on his trail camera for months before killing it this past weekend with his crossbow.

Cary bowhunter downs 150-class buck

Brian Cope

Most hunters don’t like to hear the bark of a dog while they are hunting from a tree stand, but it saved the day for Dale Wolfe of Cary, N.C. when he was hunting a plot of land he hunts in Wake County this past weekend. […]

Patrick Walker almost settled for shooting a doe on his first hunt, but he waited. His patience was rewarded with this trophy Guilford County buck.

1st-time hunter arrows 149-inch Guilford County trophy buck

Jeff Burleson

Patrick Walker, a 20-year-old student at UNC-Greensboro, wasn’t about to set an easy goal for his first archery deer this fall, not after a huge buck showed up in trail-camera photos this summer on his family’s Guilford County land. […]

Doug Farlow of Durham County watched this buck on his trail camera starting in June. It disappeared two weeks before the season started, but showed up on opening day.

Durham crossbow hunter arrows 141-inch 9-point buck

Jeff Burleson

For months, Durham County’s Doug Farlow cherished every time he checked his trail camera and couldn’t wait until the first day of the 2016 central deer season to arrive. […]

On Aug. 15, Staci Walker killed this 9-point buck on the first deer hunt she's ever been on

First-time female hunter kills trophy buck in Hampton County

Brian Cope

Staci Walker had never been hunting before this year’s opening day, and she backed herself into a corner by telling her guy pals that she wasn’t going to shoot “just any deer. It’s going to be a buck worth showing off.” […]

Chris Trout killed this Bamberg County beast on Aug 27. The 10-point buck weighed 235 pounds.

Myrtle Beach hunter kills massive 10-point Bamberg County buck

Jeff Burleson

Saturday, Aug. 27, turned into a day to remember for Chris Trout of Myrtle Beach, who waited until the last few minutes of legal shooting time that evening before pulling the trigger on a 235-pound, 10-point Bamberg County buck. […]

Big bucks are there for the taking on public lands, but it takes a different approach for consistent success.

Going public – North Carolina and South Carolina offer deer hunters millions of acres of public land

Jeff Burleson

Private land available for hunting is becoming more limited, with land conversion to suburban development growing fast. And the price for hunting leases and recreational real estate continues to skyrocket, further handicapping an average hunter’s opportunity to harvest a deer. […]

Productive game lands areas for deer hunting are scattered across North Carolina.

North Carolina’s top game lands for deer

Craig Holt

Chris Baranski, a biologist who works in the northern Piedmont, believes the Butner-Falls of Neuse Game Land, with portions in northern Durham, southwestern Granville and northwestern Wake County, is North Carolina’s top game land for whitetail deer. It covers 40,662 acres. […]