Deer Hunting Archives - Page 202 of 249

Bryan Hughes Beaufort County trophy has a record-book sized rack on a body that belongs to a "teen-aged' buck.

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.” […]

Madison Elmore, 10, killed this 8-point, 190-pound buck on Oct. 18 -- becoming the last of four girls from one Sumter school to put venison in the freezer.

It’s a girl thing: 4 Sumter classmates all take deer

Brian Cope

Four girls between the ages of 9 and 11 are the envy of every boy – and many other girls – at Sumter’s Wilson Hall School. […]

South Carolina hunters are allowed to take two deer daily in most locations.

Double Play

L. Woodrow Ross

Whitetail deer are elusive animals with highly developed survival skills. It is a great achievement when a hunter takes a deer in a fair-chase hunting situation. […]

Hunters can't bring back full deer heads from Pennsylvania to North Carolina because of the discovery of a deer infected with CWD in that state. Check with the N.C. Wildlife Resources for details.

CWD in Pennsylvania deer forces NCWRC to change regulations

NCWRC Release

A whitetail deer born and raised in captivity in Pennsylvania has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), prompting the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to implement restrictions regarding importing deer heads from Pennsylvania. […]

Chris Campbell's big Bladen County buck carried antlers featuring a 17 1/2-inch spread and 12-inch tines.

Bladen County hunter takes huge buck with blackpowder rifle

Jeff Burleson

Chris Campbell from Elizabethtown slipped into the woods on Saturday, Oct. 13, intending to cap a long day of working on stands, corn piles and shooting lanes by shooting a doe that his son, Zac, could take back to N.C. State. […]

Relatively few bucks will be taken during primitive weapons seasons in eastern North Carolina, leaving plenty for gun hunters.

October’s 3 F’s: Food, frost & females

Jeff Burleson

As autumn arrives in North Carolinas, hunters in the Eastern deer section get the first shot at a trophy buck, while the rest of the state’s hunters are still launching razor-tipped arrows. […]

Michael Sprinkle's 255-pound Forsyth County buck had a main-frame 7-point rack with five sticker points, including a 6-inch drop tine.

Forsyth County archer downs huge, ‘familiar’ buck with tall, heavy rack

Bill Howard

Michael Sprinkle of Winston-Salem could be considered a nature photographer based on how long his trail camera had been taking photos of a huge whitetail buck in Forsyth County. […]

An inexpensive, build-it-yourself game cart can help you get equipment into the woods and a big buck out.

Build a portable game cart for less than $10?

Bill Howard

Game carts are becoming a valuable and important piece of a hunter’s arsenal. They come in handy, being lightweight but able to help carry equipment for harvested game. […]

Portable game cart can be valuable – and built for less than $10

Bill Howard

Game carts are becoming a valuable and important piece of a hunter’s arsenal. They come in handy, being lightweight but able to help carry equipment for harvested game. They do less damage to the land than an ATV and are much quieter and more compact.

Many carts may cost more than $100, but here’s a simple, do-it-yourself design that you can build in less than 30 minutes and for the cost of – or less – than a good deer drag.
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