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Dillon County youth bags all-white gobbler on youth-day
After a torrential storm flooded half of Dillon County last Friday night, 15-year-old Noel Miller dropped the hammer on a truly-rare gobbler the next morning. […]
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Flextone’s Lightning Crow
The Lightning Crow from Flextone Game Calls produces ultra-realistic, natural sounds that can be heard for miles. […]
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Millions of acres of public land gives hunters in the Carolinas a real shot at a turkey gobbler this month — if they’re up to the task.
In many places, spring means many things to many people, but for the diehard hunter who calls the Carolinas home, it’s full of sitting, listening and stalking a gobbling tom. […]
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Don’t give up on tough gobblers, just change tactics
Very few wild turkeys are “easy” for hunters, but some are easier than others. Those gobblers that gobble at your first call on opening day and sail down within shotgun range fit in this category, along with the ones that respond the way any turkey hunter would expect them to and wind up 30 yards off the end of your shotgun barrel within 30 minutes.
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Early season tactics won’t get you much after the first week of South Carolina’s turkey season.
Hunting turkeys effectively through an entire season is one of the biggest challenges for a hunter — emphasis on effectively. […]
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TriStar Raptor ATAC Turkey Shotgun
TriStar Arms has released their new Raptor ATAC Turkey shotgun patterned in Mossy Oak Break Up camouflage. […]
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Legislation to change turkey-hunting regulations moving through legislature
South Carolina turkey hunters would get an expanded turkey season – with a reduction in the season limit – if two identical bills on the fast track in the S.C. Legislature this session are passed and signed into law. […]
The Shootist
Turkey patterns and cleaning tips
In turkey hunting, preparation is everything.
So thinking about you guys (and gals) who get all heated up over feathers in the spring, I thought I would write about patterning — and cleaning your guns. […]
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Unusual calls and fighting purrs
Terry Hiers is an expert with most any call made, but he does have some he saves for specific situations. […]
Hunting
Wildlife Habitat Improvement Initiative Series: Buck Mountain Hunting Club, Moore County, N.C.
Slightly more than 25 years ago, Don Elam and a dozen of his buddies formed a small hunting club in the rolling hills of Moore County, N.C. From a few hundred acres from the beginning to nearly 8,000 acres today — and more than 120 members — Buck Mountain Hunting Club is one of the preferred hunting retreats across the region to bag any one of the available big- or small-game species, including wild turkey, deer, squirrel and even one of the infamous wild hogs that have recently showed up in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. […]