Deer Hunting
Upstate urban hunts
Opportunities often go unnoticed or may be forgotten. We are creatures of habit. We find a location to hunt and get locked into it and don’t make the effort to try new locations. […]
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Deer Hunting
Talk to me!
Deer and other wild animals communicate through scent, body language and, of course, vocalization. […]
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SCDNR’s online viewer
South Carolina is covered with public-hunting opportunities, and most are part of S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ WMA program. […]
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North of the boarder bucks
Dustin Reamey of Chase City, Va., used a muzzleloader rifle to down one of Virginia’s greatest whitetailed bucks in November 2011 just across the North Carolina state line in Mecklenburg County. […]
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Stokes is hotbed for trophy bucks
If a hunter wants a chance at a trophy whitetail, he couldn’t do much better than spend time in Stokes County. […]
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When opportunity knocks, be ready
Gary Barrett has three bucks on his office wall: the 2006 and 2007 trophies, and a third one that comes with a different story. […]
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Habitat-improvement projects
Gary Barrett has initiated a number of habitat-improvement projects at Oakhaven that North Carolina deer managers can implement on properties they own, lease, or hunt on if the landowners agree: […]
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State chapter of QDMA criticizes Commission’s penned-deer proposals
The North Carolina chapter of Quality Deer Management Association recently raised concerns about the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission proposed regulation changes that would relax restrictions on importing pen-raised deer into North Carolina and may open the door for Chronic Wasting Disease to enter the state. […]
Deer of the Year
Caswell County produces huge muzzleloader buck for Orange County man
The big buck first showed up on one of Johnathan McVey’s trail camera on Aug. 8 at 10 p.m., and he knew immediately that all of his deer-hunting efforts this season would be focused on that animal. […]
Deer of the Year
Hunter ‘re-racks’ a little/big Beaufort County trophy
Bryan Hughes of Hilton Head still doesn’t know what happened the first time he pulled the trigger on Oct. 11. Sitting in a ground blind, looking down a 125-yard shooting lane in the middle of an 80-acre cutover in southern Beaufort County, he squeezed off a shot at a buck he described as looking “like he had a big fan on his head waving around.” […]