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June 27, 2026

A trained dog can make hunting shed antlers a great postseason treat.

Shed Happens – Extend your deer season! Spend some time hunting for shed antlers and you’ll be a leg up on bucks in the fall

Deer hunters who didn’t get the chance to collect that trophy buck’s antlers while they were still attached to his head this past deer season still have a chance to get them now that deer season is over and he is done with them. […]

Last year’s budget bill gets a secret amendment to help deer farmers

Craig Holt

A legislative move that prevented scrutiny of a substitute amendment to the 2014 state budget bill has kept alive the potential for more cervid farming and relaxed rules for penned deer. […]

Supports of deer-farming in North Carolina got a shock earlier this month when a leading spokesman for the movement was arrested on charges of obtaining property under false pretenses.

Vocal supporter of deer-farming has been arrested

Craig Holt

A man arrested in Wake County earlier this month for obtaining property by false pretenses in Stanly County is a long-time supporter of the North Carolina Deer Farmers Association’s legislative attempts to relax import-export rules for captive cervids and allow more cervid farms in the state. […]

Holden Poole took this monster buck on Sept. 15 in Cherokee County.

2014 Deer of the Year

South Carolina Sportsman

The 2014-15 deer season was an interesting one for Palmetto State hunters. In the Upstate, baiting is still a relative novelty, and with a huge acorn crop this past fall, it’s likely that big bucks didn’t have to travel too far to find something to eat. […]

Currents

Listen and learn from deer hunters

Dan Kibler

South Carolina Sportsman and its sister publication in North Carolina have been running annual Bag-A-Buck contests almost since the moment the magazines were first published. […]

Deer of the Year 2014

North Carolina Sportsman

Deer season opened back on Sept. 13 of last year, and almost instantly, big bucks started to fall. Within a week, a handful of enormous bucks had been tagged by archers across North Carolina, and the fun didn’t stop there. […]

A decision to climb down from a tree stand and sit on a log proved to be a good one as Sands Williamson killed a great Lee County buck on Oct. 15.

Lee County trophy falls to hunter on a log

Pat Robertson

Sands Williamson did not like the view from the deer stand into which he had climbed late on the afternoon of Oct. 15, so he climbed down and walked a couple of hundred yards down the edge of the pasture on a Lee County farm and sat on an old pine tree that had been cut down. […]