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Smokepole Sizzlers
Journalists and novelists often write about Fate.
For North Carolina trophy whitetail hunters, “Fate” means the first and second weeks of November and is spelled “r-u-t.” […]
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Size Doesn’t Matter
Hunters who shoot accurately can take deer — yes, even big bucks — with small-caliber rifles. […]
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Whitetails 101: Know your doe
When you peer down the barrel of your rifle and click off the safety, remember that you are not only a hunter; you are ostensibly a game manager. […]
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Unfinished Meal
At least Jeremy Bessinger’s big buck didn’t die hungry. […]
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Cover: October 2008 (SC)
Bamberg and Jasper counties have already produced two monster deer in this young season. […]
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Skill + Luck = Bucks
The two North Carolina archery hunters who downed the top bow-killed bucks of 2007 had something in common — neither had seen their bucks previously; they hunted food sources at almost the same time in the middle of September; and they admit they were lucky. […]
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Bowing to Pressure
Early season bow hunting can be one of the more challenging ways to hunt white-tail deer. But it can be perhaps the most rewarding of all to a serous bow hunter. […]
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Pick your Poison
By almost all accounts, the peak of the whitetail deer rut arrives in various parts of South Carolina in late October. […]