On Jan. 1, the final day of deer season, Jeffrey Cape of Pelzer finally got to meet his nemesis face to face, but not quite the way he had hoped to. Cape was nearly three-quarters of the way up the tree to his stand when he heard a commotion 10 yards away. […]
Terry Henderson knew he had a good spot to hunt when he got permission to use his pastor’s property in Wilkes County just 1/4-mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway a number of years ago. […]
Barry Bryant of Yadkin County grew up hunting quail and never was interested enough in deer hunting to set foot in a deer stand until about five years ago after he’d turned 50-years-old. […]
Big bucks are becoming more common every year for Tarheel hunters. Still, few true trophies arrive at the taxidermist painted white. […]
Killing a big buck is every deer hunter’s dream, but when you kill a trophy buck that has some kind of cool feature to it, that’s a bonus. […]
Some trophies are measured in more ways than shear size, and sometimes it’s the smaller trophies that are the most memorable. That’s definitely the case for Josh Hyde’s 120-class buck he killed at the end of November in Graham County. […]
Joshua Miller of Mitchell County saw the biggest deer of his life the week of Thanksgiving, and he saw it on his grandpa’s old farm. He killed that buck, and said it’s extra special to him because of it being on his family’s land that has been passed down to him. […]
With all the advantages of trail cameras and automatic feeders, it’s still possible to kill a trophy buck the old fashioned way, and that’s what Michael Bouvier of Greenville County proved on Nov. 14. He killed a 140-class trophy by just hunting deer sign. […]
For many hunters, deer season starts way before opening day, and it’s not uncommon for them to have one particular buck on their mind long before it’s time to don their camouflage. […]
Woody David Swaney of Pendleton, SC is 53-years-old and has been deer hunting for 46-years, and took his first buck when he was only 7-years-old with a single-barrel shotgun. […]
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