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July 6, 2026

Lee Lakosky erects a “fake” rubbed tree to attract the attention of wandering bucks.

Plant a rub tree to draw in big bucks

Lee Lakosky, co-host with his wife, Tiffany, of The Crush television show, has developed a way to hunt rubs that is unique and very beneficial, particularly for bow hunters. […]

Get ready for green-winged teal during North Carolina’s early October duck season

Dusty Wilson

In addition to wood ducks, green-winged teal are likely to make an early arrival during North Carolina’s Oct. 5-8 season. […]

Stretch out your comfortable shooting range

Terry Madewell

Matt Willis said hunters don’t have to take long-range shots at deer to successfully rifle hunt agricultural fields, but it sure can help. […]

Ducks are banded in their breeding or wintering grounds, giving biologists an opportunity to learn more about their migration patterns and hunters the opportunity to show off some waterfowl jewelry.

Leg bands are a duck hunter’s bird bling

Dusty Wilson

While duck hunters are among the most earnest in effort and commitment to their sport, they have little to show in terms of trophies: no impressive antlers to hang on the wall, citations to signify an outstanding catch after a day on the water. But, if you want to make a waterfowler proud, ask him about his duck bands. […]

Orchards filled with fruit-bearing trees like apples can attract plenty of deer during the early part of deer season.

Fruit orchards can be deer magnets

Terry Madewell

Robert Johnson said often-overlooked food sources that will draw deer are fruit orchards, with apples and pears being excellent. These crops are not always easy to hunt, but they can provide excellent hunting. Small clusters of fruit trees can be heavily hit by deer. […]

Find staging areas outside of fields

Terry Madewell

Matt Willis said successfully hunting agricultural crops depends on knowing routes deer take from habitat beyond the borders to the edges of the field. […]

Jeff Kirkley’s 122-inch piebald buck, killed last fall in South Carolina, is an unusually large specimen of a whitetail deer with coloration that is a genetic anomaly.

Mature piebald bucks have Ph.D’s

Jeff Burleson

Piebald and albino deer are unique in any environment. Few hunters taken a white deer, and even fewer a big, piebald buck. […]

Tyler Campbell of Mebane, N.C., took this huge archery buck in October 2015 after discovering the buck’s core area.

Finding buck’s core area led to tagging 2015 trophy

Craig Holt

Tyler Campbell of Mebane, N.C., killed one of North Carolina’s top archery bucks on Oct. 25, 2015, when he sent a broadhead through an Alamance County 11-pointer that scored 1562/8 net Boone and Crockett Club points. […]

The 2016 Inaugural Duckfest will include a duck calling contest, bass fishing tournament, a cook-off, and much more.

Duckfest to be held in Summerton on Oct. 22

Brian Cope

Clarendon County is one of South Carolina’s top destinations for waterfowl hunting, so it’s only fitting that this will be the site of the Inaugural Duckfest on Oct. 22, a celebration of duck hunting throughout the county and state. […]

The NWTF is heavily involved in turkey hunting, but there is much more to it than that.

NWTF is about more than turkey hunting

Brian Cope

Since turkey hunting season is a long ways off, there’s really no reason to see what’s happening with the NWTF right now. Perhaps they are shut down for the winter anyway, and will open back up in the spring? Far from it. […]