Featured
Wilmington teen kills 784-pound bear, second-largest ever in North Carolina
A 16-year-old Wilmington hunter took the second-largest bear in North Carolina history on Thursday in Hyde County on his first bear hunt. […]
Hunting
Featured
Permits remain available for youth-only waterfowl hunt in Currituck County
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has a limited number of permits remaining for a special youth-only waterfowl hunt on Jan. 31 on Currituck Sound. […]
Ducks
North Carolina stuck in dead zone as duck migrations start and stall
Temperatures are high and expectations are low as the third segment of North Carolina’s three-part waterfowl season gets underway. […]
Sidebars
Local and long-distance calling
Diving ducks do not decoy as readily or gracefully as puddle ducks, but they will respond to calling. […]
Deer Hunting
Technology has its advantages
When Native American hunters first scoured the landscape to feed their tribes, the water courses traversing the land were prime places to encounter game animals. […]
Sidebars
How to tackle big-water decoy spreads
For many hunters trying to lure ducks into range on ponds, in swamps or around other small bodies of water, “less is more” when it comes to decoys. […]
Deer Hunting
Big bucks hide out on swampy islands to survive
In order for deer to survive the season, they must learn how to hide from the deer-hunting battalions of the Carolinas. In areas where ponds, lakes, swamps and beaver ponds exist, the deer population increases with the level of hunting pressure. And associated with almost every water course are dry-land hills or islands that begin to collect pressured bucks towards the end of the season.
Hunting
Don’t get trapped: Know trapping rules
Beginning with Native Americans during pre-settlement through the modern day, trapping has been one of the nation’s unique past-times. […]
Deer Hunting
Deer hunters, don’t give up until the last minute
Deer hunters in the Carolinas have more time to hunt than most hunters in the nation, but they still need to make every legal hunting moment count. […]
Deer Hunting
Read the weather
From the beginning of deer season until its Jan. 1 close, the weather will vary from scorching, 90-degree days to bone chilling-winter mornings with frozen precipitation all over. […]