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July 3, 2026

The 41st annual Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournament state championship will be held April 28, 2018 by the NCWRC.

Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournament State Championship is April 28

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will host the 41st annual Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournament state championship on April 28 at the John F. Lentz Hunter Education Complex in Ellerbe in Richmond County. […]

Matt New killed this big bird on opening day of North Carolina's 2018 youth season. It's the second consecutive year that he's killed a gobbler with his bow during youth season.

Youth hunter bags 23-pound gobbler in Northampton County, N.C.

Brian Cope

Youth hunter Matt New killed his first turkey during the 2017 opening day of Youth Season with a bow, and he and his dad set out to make it two years in a row on April 7 of this year during a hunt in Northampton County. The weather forecast for that Saturday called for rain, but after a promising day of scouting on Friday, the two hunters decided to give it a chance anyway. It paid off. […]

Turkeys don’t disappear on bad-weather days; knowing how they react to wind and rain can put you a leg up on tagging a gobbler.

Tricks for bad-weather birds

Jeff Burleson

It has been said, and often, that a turkey would be nearly impossible to kill if its sense of smell was sharp as its keen eyesight and extra-sensory hearing. […]

If you’re hunting a new area this spring, having a good game plan is a key to getting a twist on turkeys.

When a door opens….

Terry Madewell

Turkey hunters are always on the lookout for new places to hunt, and with land-management changes, good areas are always in flux. […]

Trumpet calls are artificial wingbones, and they produce many of the same sounds as the original (second from right).

Try the “other” three mouth calls

Pete Rogers

Mention mouth calls to a turkey hunter, and diaphragm calls will come to most minds. […]

Measurements count

Jeff Burleson

Just like fertilizers and lime treatments, herbicides are necessary tools to make food plots shine and produce bumper results. Yet herbicides must be used at the correct concentration to receive maximum benefits. And too much juice will result in crop stunting and even death. […]

Hands of a Sportsman is a NC-based non-profit that takes disabled hunters on adventures that put smiles on their faces and game on the ground.

Hands of a Sportsman offers outdoor adventures for disabled sportsmen

Carolina Sportsman

Hands of a Sportsman is a non-profit organization based in Salisbury, N.C. that believes everyone should share in the beauty of adventure in our great outdoors. They’ve recognized that some would-be hunters and anglers don’t have it as easy as the rest of us, but they fill the gap, and “put smiles on the faces of those taking on some of life’s toughest challenges.” […]

Pre-emergent herbicides are keys to producing the best warm-season food plots possible.

Don’t give weeds any head start

Jeff Burleson

Pests challenge farmers and food-plot developers every time seeds hit the dirt. Weeds, grasses and other competing vegetation are the chief pests that will ruin a food plot’s success. […]

Jason Snead of Manteo completed a rare double March 25 in South Carolina, dropping two gobblers with one shot, including a rare erythristic (cinnamon) bird (right).

NC hunter drops two gobblers with one shot in Upstate SC

Craig Holt

Jason Snead of Manteo did something few wild turkey hunters have duplicated with odds close to one in a half-million. […]

Big Lake’s Breaker Box

Carolina Sportsman

Hugh McLaurin of Big Lake Outdoor Products has been making game calls out of a variety of woods for years, and he knows that dymond wood, a laminate that isn’t easy to come by, is one of the hardest, most-dense woods around, often used in the handles of custom knives. […]