Greener Pastures
Keep spring costs down
Throughout the year, deer and other wildlife locate various food sources to fulfill their daily nutritional requirements. […]
Hunting
Small Craft Advisory
Paddle up a gobbler
Late-season gobblers can drive a hunter insane. They become wary of the same old calls from the same old spots in the same old fields. […]
Hunting
Day 6 PlotWatcher Pro
The Day 6 PlotWatcher Pro can be used to determine the activity level, and even health, of the deer on your land. […]
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Birds at the bitter end – Late-season turkey hunting requires a change in tactics to tag a North Carolina tom
Spring turkey season arrived for North Carolina hunters a couple of weeks ago, so it’s been long enough for the drive to tag a longbeard to falter when normal tactics didn’t produce. […]
Currents
Proposed changes in turkey regs? Yea!
Pat Robertson reports elsewhere in the magazine about a piece of legislation making its way through the general assembly that would make two big changes in turkey hunting regulations: setting a unified statewide season and reducing the bag limit from five to three birds. […]
Deer Hunting
North Carolina deer harvest sets all-time record
North Carolina deer hunters posted an all-time harvest record during the 2013-14 season, tagging 188,130 whitetails according to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. […]
Featured
Orange County gobbler with five beards will rank No. 10 all-time in North Carolina
Veteran turkey hunter Brian Sykes of the Caldwell community in northeastern Orange County has had little trouble filling his tags in recent season, but a gobbler he took two weeks ago is a first for him: a 5-bearded bird that ranks in the top 10 all-time in North Carolina. […]
Deer Hunting
Statewide deer harvest is up 3.6 percent in 2013, SCDNR reports
South Carolina’s deer harvest last fall was up 3.6 percent over 2012, continuing a see-saw trend over the past few years, but the state’s top deer biologist found plenty to be happy about. […]
Featured
Will final week of turkey season be the charm for Upstate hunters?
Turkey hunters who have yet to tag a longbeard still have time to score during the last week of the season, and taxidermist Chuck Mulkey of Anderson expects the last week — which ends May 1 — to be the best time to tag a gobbler. […]
Featured
Six Mile hog taken by Seneca hunter estimated at 460 pounds
Marcus Church of Seneca got a call a few months ago from a landowner in Six Mile who was having problems with wild hogs rooting up and tearing up his fields. […]