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September 17, 2026

Guide Chris Orvin said that gobblers in the Francis Marion National Forest are starting to separate from the hens and start gobbling better.

Guide says national forest gobblers are starting to pick up

The first week of the turkey season was disturbingly quiet in the Francis Marion National Forest, but that has changed dramatically late last week. […]

Shannon Lyndon of Taylorsville killed this beautiful red stag on a New Zealand hunt last month that he won at a 2012 archery trade show.

Taylorsville man cashes in on New Zealand stag hunt

Taylor Pardue

Shannon Lyndon won an all-expenses-paid hunt for New Zealand red stag in 2012, and after two years of waiting, he cashed in for a spot-and-stalk hunt on March 24. […]

The Farmers’ Almanac has been helping with planting schedules and other farming activities for centuries.

And the Alamanac says…

Jeff Burleson

In 1792, the first year of George Washington’s presidency, Robert B. Thomas created the very first Farmers’ Almanac, which was used to help struggling farmers improve their agricultural production yields as well as other things. […]

Hunters killed more than 11,000 cormorants during a month-long season on the Santee Cooper lakes, according to SCDNR.

More than 11,000 cormorants killed during first season on Santee Cooper

Brian Cope

During South Carolina’s first-ever double-crested cormorant season, hunters killed more than 11,000 of the nuisance birds in the Santee Cooper lakes, according to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. […]

Noel Miller killed this unusual all-white turkey gobbler on youth-day in Dillon County last Saturday.

Dillon County youth bags all-white gobbler on youth-day

Jeff Burleson

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. […]

TriStar Raptor ATAC Turkey Shotgun

North Carolina Sportsman

TriStar Arms has released their new Raptor ATAC Turkey shotgun patterned in Mossy Oak Break Up camouflage. […]

Flextone’s Lightning Crow

North Carolina Sportsman

The Lightning Crow from Flextone Game Calls produces ultra-realistic, natural sounds that can be heard for miles. […]

Hunting pressure is the biggest obstacle to taking public-land turkeys. Here’s how to overcome it in the Carolinas.

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.

Jeff Burleson

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. […]

Don’t give up on tough gobblers, just change tactics

Bruce Ingram

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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