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August 26, 2026

Keeping a journal of hunting trips can help you pattern deer movements from year to year, as well as remember favorite hunts.

Journals: An important tool for hunters

Keeping a hunting journal serves several purposes. It allows us to relive special memories and to record pertinent information that will help to enhance future hunts. […]

Food plots, including those with rye and clover, are often excellent places to catch big bucks sneaking into feed in October.

East vs. West: Hunting tactics to put blackpowder deer on the ground

Craig Holt

With North Carolina’s deer seasons divided into four regions by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission — along with seasons that cater to three different kinds weapons — hunters find themselves in different weather and deer-activity conditions but relegated to using the same types of weapons. […]

A full-body harness is the safest way to hunt from high up in a tree stand.

Tree-stand safety is paramount

Bill Howard

Last season the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission introduced the “Home From The Hunt” safety campaign to help reduce the numbers of accidents involving deer hunters and tree stands. […]

Well-placed trail cameras can give hunters and land managers an idea of the kind of bucks on a piece of property, as well as enable them to pattern deer movements.

The trail camera advantage

Jeff Burleson

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. […]

Planting a cool-season food plot can provide a place that will draw deer during the season and provide nourishment long after it ends.

Create hot spots: plant immediately-maturing food-plot varieties

Jeff Burleson

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. […]

Nick Blanton gets ready to put one of his Walker hounds back in its kennel after a hunt at Angola Bay Game Land.

Run with the pack on a Dixie hound hunt

Mike Marsh

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. […]

A wildfire during the summer of 2011 burned more than 30,000 acres of Holly Shelter Game Land.

Fire: the good, the bad and the ugly

Mike Marsh

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. […]

George Hardison (left) and his brother, Josh, use electronic tracking collars to keep tabs on their hounds during a hunt on Holly Shelter Game Lands.

Locating lost hounds electronically

Mike Marsh

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. […]

Larger fields offer hunters an opportunity to scout from a distance with binoculars, while smaller tracts are best monitored with trail cameras.

Quick facts about hunting bean fields

Phillip Gentry

Trail cameras offer substantial scouting opportunities. Use a mineral lick or salt block during the offseason to bring deer into camera range. […]

A group of hunters gathers to plan a hunt on Angola Bay Game Lands. The size of the group varies from hunt to hunt, but most hunts accept anyone who wants to join.

Angola Bay and Holly Shelter deer hunting by the (regs) book

Mike Marsh

Holly Shelter has 64,743 acres and is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays for deer hunting, except that a large part of the Bear Garden Tract and all of the Pender 4 Tract require advance permits. Permit hunts are conducted Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday). […]