Deer Hunting
The Eastern Deer Duo
Along a sandy road winding through a wiregrass ridge shaded by longleaf pines, a pickup truck parked. […]
Deer Hunting
Deer of the Year
Stokes County hunter bags his fourth Pope & Young buck
Phil Ring, a retired biology teacher at North Stokes High School, knows a thing or three about hunting whitetail deer with a bow. […]
Deer Hunting
Pile Driv’r auger feeder system
With supplemental feeding rapidly becoming one of the most important aspects of Quality Deer Management, Wildgame Innovations is announcing a new kind of feeder that maximizes the potential of supplemental feed. […]
Deer Hunting
Lee County trophy is first Bag A Buck contest winner
Jason Boyd thought his hunting buddy was walking behind his stand the afternoon of Sept. 17 — that’s how heavy the footsteps sounded. But Boyd, “jasonb1988” on SouthCarolinaSportsman.com, turned and instead saw a huge buck coming through a stand of oaks toward his climbing stand. […]
Deer of the Year
Velvet trophy from Stanly County wins first monthly Bag A Buck contest
A tremendous, main-frame 8-point buck killed on Sept. 8, the first day of archery season, is the winner of the first of four monthly Bag-A-Buck contests presented by Leupold and Barnes Precision Machinery. […]
Deer Hunting
The trail camera advantage
The early season is a powerful time for hunters, with lots of bucks roaming the woods and a trophy buck apt to show up anytime. […]
Deer Hunting
Create hot spots: plant immediately-maturing food-plot varieties
Cooling air temperatures in the fall trigger instinctive urges for wildlife to feed to avoid starvation. Yet the cooler weather and mating rituals also require deer to consume more energy-rich foods. […]
Deer Hunting
Run with the pack on a Dixie hound hunt
On a typical Saturday at the Bear Garden permit area, as well as with any of the other areas in Holly Shelter or Angola Bay, hound-hunting groups gather at well-known crossroads to go over their hunt plans. […]
Deer Hunting
Fire: the good, the bad and the ugly
While controlled burns are the mainstay of habitat management at Angola Bay and Holly Shelter game lands, a wildfire in the summer of 2011 did some severe damage. […]
Deer Hunting
Locating lost hounds electronically
Deer hounds were selectively bred for their loud, steady vocalizations, which allowed hunters to keep track of them and get ahead of the chase to shoot a buck. […]