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Dog hunters wary baiting may cause too many lost bears
In 2014, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission began allowing still-hunters to use natural bait the first six days of bear season in any county with a season. […]
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Hunting bears with Plotts is a North Carolina tradition
In eastern and western North Carolina, many modern bear hunters own pursuit hounds, most from the Plott stock, a breed of brindled bear and boar dog brought to the high country in 1750 by Johannes Plott, a German immigrant. […]
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Set your squirrel priorities: fox or gray
The best places to hunt fox squirrels are open stands of long-leaf pines. The best places to hunt gray squirrels are densely vegetated hardwood drains.
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Special gear for secretive squirrels
It is often difficult to spot a treed squirrel if the canopy cover is dense. While gray squirrels tend to hide by flattening their bodies against tree trunks or in forks where they resemble bumps or knots, fox squirrels often run to the ends of long-leaf pine tree limbs and curl into balls, looking exactly like pine cones. […]
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Jones County father-son duo kills bear and deer on same hunt
When Jim Henderson and his son Hunter took to the woods last week, they knew it was a split season for bear and deer on their Jones County property, but they couldn’t have dreamed they would each take one animal apiece, but that’s exactly what happened. […]
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Dogged determination – Technology has changed their sport, but bear hunters in eastern North Carolina are still letting things go to the dogs
With the inventions of GPS, trail cameras and hand-held devices that use satellite imagery to keep track of dogs, bear hunting in eastern North Carolina has changed nearly as much as every aspect of life in America. […]
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A den of foxes – Check out the Sandhills Game Lands this month for some top-drawer squirrel-hunting action: foxes or grays
Bruce Trujillo is a semi-retired machinist from Castle Hayne, who works a few days a week and carries a few fishermen offshore fishing, but he’s really waiting for squirrel season to come around. […]
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Duplin County hunter bags huge bear
Most truly huge bears come from the northeastern counties of the state, but Duplin County hunter Cody Brown bagged one near Kenansville that weighed 695-pounds on Nov. 11, 2015. Deanna Noble, the N.C. Wildlife Commission’s Technical Assistance Biologist, weighed the bear. […]
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2015 bear season was good one for Upstate region
The 2015 bear season was a very good one in the Upstate’s mountains, the third-highest on record according to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. […]
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Pheasant tower shoots offer a different bird hunting experience
If pheasant hunting conjures images of the great western plains, then you obviously haven’t been to a tower shoot. […]