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September 11, 2026

It may not happen for a while, but North Carolina hunters may eventually have to have special tags to harvest black bears.

Special tags, baiting may be in works for bear hunters

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Jan. 16 Big Game Committee meeting discussing the state’s expanding bear population produced agreement among diverse user groups, according to David Cobb, director of the agency’s Wildlife Management Division, but no new proposals were adopted. […]

Coons by Nite Lite

Jeff Dennis

What is the oldest sporting tradition related to using hounds to pursue wild game? Likely that would be fox hunting, which has at least a few centuries of history in Europe. […]

Little Pee Dee’s Gray Ghosts

Mike Marsh

In what was once a swamp, a hunter sneaked along, making his way around a greenbriar tangle. […]

Preserves offer different packages and amenities for hunters who are looking for different kinds of hunting experiences.

Armchair Quail

Jim Casada

As sportsmen, we rightly herald the grand comeback stories associated with South Carolina’s two most popular game species: the whitetail deer and the wild turkey. […]

Good habitat protects quail from aerial predators, such as hawks.

Bringing Back Mr. Bob — Tips on re-establishing quail

Craig Holt

Anyone who loves quail hunting — or longs for the days when bobwhites were widespread in North Carolina — is restricted mostly to preserve hunting, if they want a chance to pursue these fast-flying game birds. […]

Quail thrive in quality habitat, but it has been disappearing from the Southeast for the past 50 years.

CURE project’s aim is to revive quail

Craig Holt

North Carolina’s effort to restore quail, the CURE (Cooperative Upland habitat Restoration and Enhancement) program, has attempted since 2001 to change large-scale landscape management practices in several areas to benefit small-game species, including songbirds, butterflies and several species of amphibians and reptiles. […]

The N.C. Habitat Foundation has set up a ‘Quail Fund’ to help pay for efforts to restore bobwhite quail to suitable habitat in North Carolina.

NCWHF tackles quail problem

Craig Holt

The N.C. Wildlife Habitat Foundation has accepted the daunting challenge of trying to improve the state’s quail habitat. […]

Coyotes hunt by scent and sight; it’s common for them to circle downwind to try and pick up the scent of the caller.

Silencing Sumter’s song dog — Tips for hunting coyotes

Pete Rogers

The woods were silent, except for the crying sound of a wounded rabbit. Wailing and squealing. Pause, more squealing. […]

Brandon “Big Red” Barnes put the killing shot into the skull of this 780-pound Washington County bear – believed to be the second-heaviest ever killed in North Carolina

Washington County hunters chase down 780-pound black bear, second-largest ever taken in North Carolina

Jeff Burleson

Hunters need not travel to Canada or Alaska to take a record-sized black bear. Eastern North Carolina’s mix of agriculture and rural wilderness is a haven for one of the largest aggregations of black bears in the world – and some of the biggest, as evidenced by an enormous bear killed in Washington County on Dec. 14. […]