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Is your bow singing off-key?
Your car gets a regular tune-up, and if you’re musically inclined, so do your piano and guitar. […]
Deer Hunting
Deer of the Year
Roundo huntress rounds up a trophy buck on opening day
Leslie Lawson of Roundo has been hunting for 20 years, since she was 4, but has only recently found success deer hunting. […]
Deer Hunting
Eastover woman kills 4-point doe in full velvet
It’s unusual for a woman to be the person shouting “It’s a girl!” to a group of people. That’s the situation that Adrianna Cockerill of Eastover found herself in last Saturday night, only she wasn’t in the delivery room of some hospital; she was standing at the back of a pickup truck, looking at a 4-pointer in full velvet she had just killed. […]
Deer Hunting
Getting ol’ Betsy in shape
Over the next three months, deer hunters in the Carolinas will carry an arsenal of weapons into the woods to bring venison back to the dinner table. […]
Deer Hunting
Home, home on the range
All too often, a sort of “Old-Betsy-is-a-tack-driver-who-has-never-failed-me” attitude leads to disappointment in the field. […]
Deer Hunting
A deer hunter’s gear checklist
That long-awaited and glad moment, opening day, has finally arrived. You rise early, stoke the inner fires with coffee and sausage biscuits, and set out for what you hope will be a glorious first morning. […]
Deer Hunting
Scouting pointers
Sensible scouting involves doing far more than merely making an effort to determine places deer are “using,” whether there’s a big buck prowling the land you hunt, or the times whitetails are coming to a food plot or any legally spread food. […]
Deer Hunting
Deer harvest on Wildlife Management Areas
According to biologist Charles Ruth of the S.C. Department of Natural resources, South Carolina has plenty of public hunting land, and hunters statewide make good use of those opportunities. […]
Deer Hunting
Deer density differences
According to Charles Ruth, the SCDNR’s deer and turkey project supervisor, not all deer habitat is equal in the state of South Carolina. The 2013 Deer Density Map shows the latest data on deer densities in the state. […]
Deer Hunting
Deer limit in holding pattern but may change in 2015
Biologist Charles Ruth said that South Carolina’s season bag limits for deer have been on a holding pattern for several years, but there may be new signs of life in the next legislation session in 2015. […]