Deer Hunting

A last-minute food-plot video primer for Upstate hunters

Hunting whitetail deer over food plots is one of the best ways to enable a hunter to take a trophy buck. Not only do food plots tip the scales in the hunter’s favor by drawing the deer to the hunter, they are an important nutritional food source and management tool to keep deer herds healthy and keep them on your property year round. […]

Deer Hunting

No changes coming in bear regs

At its July 12 meeting in Raleigh, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission unanimously voted to approve recommendations for bear management that staff biologists had been working on for two years. […]

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John Q. Public Deer Hunts

Although Ben Powell has not taken a deer off the Woodbury or Marsh wildlife management areas, he has spent many hours scouting the two public hunting areas along the Big and Little Pee Dee rivers in lower Marion County. […]

Deer Hunting

Speed kills

Will McElveen shoots a Matthews bow that is rated at about 70 pounds pull, which give his arrows a flight speed well in excess of 300 feet per second. But, as is the case for everything McElveen does, there’s a reason for the speed. […]