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May 2, 2026

Whitetails use their keen sense of smell to locate fungi such as lichen and various mushrooms which are rich in minerals and do provide a certain degree of protein with minimal fat.

Deer Dynamics: Early Summer Forage

Tommy Kirkland

Tend the food plots, manage the timber, check the pH and get rid of the weeds. We’ve all heard and know it. […]

Once the green-up begins in the spring and early summer months, both bucks and does seek out flowering plants known as forbs. Most of these plant foods are highly pliable, giving deer the ability to easily digest the vegetation.

Deer Dynamics: Early Summer Foliage

Tommy Kirkland

Tend the food plots, manage the timber, check the pH and get rid of the weeds. We’ve all heard and know it. […]

South Carolina's 2009 deer harvest continued a trend of declines that began after the record harvest of 2002.

Deer harvest falls again in 2009

From News Reports

South Carolina’s deer harvest continued to slide in 2009, according to a report released in early May by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.
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The buck fawn grows into a button buck, and is recognized by its shorter neck and square head. They have small little nubs on top of their heads that are covered with hair.

The Life of a Fawn

Tommy Kirkland

Spring gives way to warm days as the summer season nears. […]

David Wise's Calhoun County buck was chosen as the SouthCarolinaSportsman.com Palmetto Sportsmen's Classic Users Choice Award winner.

Wise wins Palmetto Sportsmen’s Classic Users Choice Award

Andy Crawford

A surge during the last few days of voting earned David Wise the SouthCarolinaSportsman.com Palmetto Sportsmen’s Classic Users Choice Award for his 162 4/8-inch buck. […]

The survival rate of a deer fawn depends not only on nutrition but the mother’s maternal guidance. Her vocal commands play a major role in teaching the fawn when and where to bed.

Deer Dynamics: Carnivore Predation

Tommy Kirkland

With stealth, a lone coyote moves through the woodlot, its nose to the ground. Periodically, the canine stops and visually scans the timber. […]

Don Clewley qualified for the SouthCarolinaSportsman.com Palmetto Sportsmen's Classic Users Choice Award by winning the first voting session yesterday. The second voting session began this morning.

Clewley first-day Palmetto Sportsmen’s Classic winner, second voting session now available

Andy Crawford

Don Clewley’s 147-inch York County buck won the first of four voting sessions yesterday, making Clewley eligible for the SouthCarolinaSportsman.com Palmetto Sportsmens’ Classic Users Choice Award to be named next week. […]

Pinopolis' Robin Rogers won the South Carolina Sportsman's Bag-A-Buck contest grand prize after entering a picture of this fine 8-point in velvet he took in August.

Pinopolis man wins Bag-A-Buck grand prize

Dan Kibler

Robin Rogers of Pinopolis was two seconds away from pulling the trigger on a cow-horn in Bamberg County late in the afternoon of Aug. 28. […]

James Maclin won the first annual NorthCarolinaSportsman.com Dixie Deer Classic User's Choice Award for his 163-inch buck.

Maclin wins NorthCarolinaSportsman.com Dixie Deer Classic Users Choice Award

Andy Crawford

James Maclin’s 163 1/8-inch Virginia buck missed being a category winner in the Dixie Deer Classic, but he was redeemed by NorthCarolinaSportsman.com users who voted his deer the site’s Users Choice Award winner. […]

Delaine Babb's 164-inch 8-point was among the winners of the 2010 Dixie Deer Classic. Babb's buck was named best Virginia Typical (gun) deer.

State-record North Carolina archery buck among 2010 Dixie Deer Classic winners

Andy Crawford

The 2010 Dixie Deer Classic is wrapping up, and the category awards have been finalized.

More than 750 deer had been scored with three hours remaining until the close of the show, an increase from 714 deer during all of last year’s show.
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