Deer of the Year
Young sisters bag trophy bucks on consecutive days
Two small Rockingham County sisters pulled off the rare feat of bagging bucks on back-to-back days last weekend. […]
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Deer of the Year
130-class buck goes down to Laurinburg bowhunter
When Robert Clark of Laurinburg, N.C. saw trail camera photos this past summer of a big buck on the property that he and a friend deer hunt on, he decided to be aggressive in attempting to keep the animal around long enough to get a chance to kill it. […]
Deer of the Year
Rockingham County hunter downs 325+ pound bear
When Randall Collins of Rockingham County, N.C. noticed a bear was living on the private farm he hunts, he decided to add the species to the list of wild game he enjoys pursuing. He’d never killed one before, or even tried, but after running into the bear last year and continually seeing sign of it, he decided 2018 would be a good year to harvest it. […]
Deer of the Year
Youth hunter scores big trophy 10-point buck
At 16-years-old, Branson Clement of Kannapolis, N.C. killed a buck unlike most hunters in the Carolinas will ever encounter in the woods on Oct. 27 on his family’s tree farm in Chesterfield County, S.C. The 10-point buck’s rack measured 150 inches and was so symmetrical that less than one inch was deducted when green scoring. […]
Deer of the Year
18-point buck goes down before the hunt even started
McLaurin Quick of Bennettsville, S.C. was planning on getting into the woods a little early on Nov. 8 to work on a stand before hunting that evening, but he never made it out of his driveway before killing a mainframe 8-point buck that had a total of 18 scoreable points. […]
Deer of the Year
Early trip to deer stand produces 145-inch trophy buck for Patrick hunter
Better late than never? Nope, that wouldn’t have worked for Joshua “Fatback” Sellers of Patrick, S.C., last Friday. […]
Deer of the Year
Allendale hunter shoots same 150-class buck twice in span of 7 weeks
Most deer hunters across the Carolinas will never get the chance to kill a 150-class whitetail deer, but on Sunday, Nov. 4, Mark Tinsley of Allendale, S.C. not only got the chance to kill such a deer, it was actually the second time he killed the same deer. […]
Deer of the Year
VIDEO: Wilton bowhunter kills 19-point cactus buck
After Jeff Annis of Wilton, N.C. got a few interesting photos last year on the trail cameras located on his Granville County hunting land of a mature, non-typical buck with a little palmation on its rack, he was hoping to catch a glimpse of the deer in person. His trail cameras caught two night photos of it this year, and it had grown quite a bit. […]
Deer of the Year
Boiling Springs hunter kills 140-class buck on 25-acre tract
Sometimes the best endings are the ones that come as a complete surprise.
Larry Rhoden of Boiling Springs in Spartanburg County did not get to hunt during bow season and he did not really expect to shoot a buck on the afternoon of Oct. 12, the opening day of gun season. […]
Deer of the Year
11-point, 150-class buck goes down in Woodruff
John McDonald of Woodruff, S.C., was ready to let his wife take a nice buck when the two climbed into their deer stand the morning of Oct. 14. But a couple of hours later, a truly magical whitetail showed up, and McDonald wound up on the trigger, taking a tall, narrow, heavy 11-point buck that measured almost 150 inches. […]