Hunting
Respect land to sustain its use
Labor Day arrives this month, along with the onset of the first major wing-shooting opportunity, dove hunting. Dove season brings out anybody and almost everybody with a shotgun. […]
Hunting
Deer of the Year
Morrisville hunter kills 10-point trophy
Aren’t hunters forced to lease massive tracts of land to get access to mature bucks? Not necessarily. While some hunters believe it is critical to secure large 1,000-acre tracts, Kelly Sutton of Morrisville takes a mature buck every year from one of his small 15-acre leases with barely enough real estate available to erect a single stand. And on the opening day of North Carolina’s 2016 archery season, Sutton followed through by bagging and tagging a huge 10 pointer minutes before dark on his Wake County lease. […]
Alligator
Duo extracts 12’9
While many gunners anticipate the first weekend in September every year to bag a 12-bird dove limit, hunters looking for a more challenging opponent look to the second weekend of the month, which begins the South Carolina 2016 alligator season. […]
Alligator
Greenville female bags 11-foot, 4-inch long gator at Santee
Mandy Broadway of Greenville, S.C. finally drew an alligator tag on her third try, and she was determined to make good on it. So determined, that after hunting all day unsuccessfully on Saturday, Sept. 10, she decided to go the next day too. […]
Deer of the Year
Cary bowhunter downs 150-class buck
Most hunters don’t like to hear the bark of a dog while they are hunting from a tree stand, but it saved the day for Dale Wolfe of Cary, N.C. when he was hunting a plot of land he hunts in Wake County this past weekend. […]
Deer of the Year
1st-time hunter arrows 149-inch Guilford County trophy buck
Patrick Walker, a 20-year-old student at UNC-Greensboro, wasn’t about to set an easy goal for his first archery deer this fall, not after a huge buck showed up in trail-camera photos this summer on his family’s Guilford County land. […]
Featured
New product is backsaver for outdoorsmen
You’ve had a long day shooting doves, and now it’s time to pluck the breasts out, wrap them up in bacon with a little cream cheese and a slice of sweet pepper, and throw them on the grill. That’s a great way to end a day afield, but it’s even better when you grab a frosty beverage out of the cooler. […]
Deer of the Year
Durham crossbow hunter arrows 141-inch 9-point buck
For months, Durham County’s Doug Farlow cherished every time he checked his trail camera and couldn’t wait until the first day of the 2016 central deer season to arrive. […]
Featured
Quail hunting still popular throughout Carolinas
Quail used to be a popular game bird for hunters. They were around in good enough numbers throughout the 70s to make for some good hunting memories, but due to a number of factors, the wild quail population took a sharp decline that it’s never recovered from, despite some pretty strong efforts on the parts of landowners and many agencies like the NWTF, Quail Forever, and the National Bobwhite Quail Initiative. […]
Hunting
Cowden Plantation offering 20 free hunts to military and veterans
In conjunction with Cowden Plantation and Jarrett Rifles, the SCDNR is offering two free deer hunts to active duty and retired military members, reservists, and disabled veterans. The hunts are being held in memory of Spc. Thomas Caughman of Lexington, who was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004. […]