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July 9, 2026

South Carolina has great hog hunting on many WMAs, but it’s only incidental to open seasons for other species.

Hog hunting on WMAs

Biologist Charles Ruth said hog hunting is a bonus opportunity when deer hunting on WMAs and is often very good. […]

Getting fall food plots in the ground by the first week of September will allow production of forage that will gives hunters a chance to take advantage of deer using the groceries through the fall hunting season.

Plant fall food plots early

Throughout the Carolinas, September still feels like summer, and the only tasty foods available to deer are the soybeans and peanut crops on farms. […]

Young coyotes are especially vulnerable to hunters’ efforts early in fall before they develop their survival instincts.

Take out juvenile coyotes now

Jeff Burleson

Originally from the great plains, coyotes are battling the feral hog in population increases across the South. […]

Tanner Jackson lets fly at a passing dove near the airstrip on Suggs Mill Pond Game Lands on a permit-only hunt.

Four dove fields planted on Suggs Mill Pond Game Lands

Mike Marsh

Suggs Mill Pond Game Land covers 11,030 acres in Bladen and Columbus counties, with 27 acres in four areasdesigned as dove fields. Field No. 1 (Owens) consists of 5 acres of millet. […]

A retriever can make a huge difference in the number of doves you shoot that wind up in your game bag, because the real hunt often begins after the shot.

The basics of retrieving doves

Jim Casada

Doves can be devilishly difficult to hit, and national statistics suggest roughly five shells are spent for every dove that flies for the final time. […]

Squirrels, like these taken by the author, are abundant across South Carolina, especially on some larger WMAs with plenty of bottomland habitat.

Squirrels are abundant statewide

Terry Madewell

Biologist Billy Dukes of SCDNR said that the squirrel population is still super-abundant across South Carolina. […]

One nostalgic part of an opening day dove hunt at The Mill Pond Hunt Club is riding in a horse-drawn wagon to the fields.

Mill Pond has stayed rural despite the creep of development

Mike Marsh

The Mill Pond is an oasis of yesteryear amid the encroaching desert of modernity. […]

A whitetail’s sense of smell is thought to be a thousand times more sensitive than a human’s, able to detect pheromones among common scents.

Before the rut arrives, bucks are confined to bachelor groups, traveling together and very close to groups of does. When the mating season begins, hormones fly, and the entire deer herd busts out of the frame, going out in all directions. […]

Consider wearing hunter orange on your way to and from your deer stand during bow season as a measure of added safety precaution.

Bowhunting safety rules make sense

Bill Howard

North Carolina had its first fatal hunting accident that involved a bowhunter shooting another hunter by mistake last September. […]

Trail cameras can give hunters a great look at the bucks on their properties and help pattern their late-summer movements.

Use photo surveillance

Jeff Burleson

Isn’t the easiest way to kill a trophy buck to know when and where he’s going to be the next day? There wouldn’t be any mature bucks left if it was that easy. […]