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Cover: November 2013 (NC)
Aaron Bates of Wadesboro killed this trophy buck in Anson County in mid-September, hunting out of a ground blind set up for his father. […]
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Fired up ducks – Three waterfowl impoundments draw ducks, hunters to North Carolina’s Holly Shelter Game Lands
Lodge Road is usually a quiet stretch, cut straight as an arrow through thick, Pender County pocosin habitat. Pickup trucks make the dust rise on the days when Holly Shelter Game Land is open for big- and small-game hunting. […]
Deer Hunting
Pile Driv’r
Rather than just throwing your feed or minerals on the ground, the Pile Driv’r Auger Feeder System from Wildgame Innovations holds and delivers supplemental feed at certain scheduled times throughout the day. […]
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‘Fantasy Island’ for bowhunters – Bulls Island is really ‘fantasy island’ for adventuresome bowhunters
Imagine spending six days on a jungle island; deer-hunting when you have a hankerin’, fishing when you feel like it, and sitting by a campfire at night eating and drinking like some banana republic royalty. […]
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Make the right call! With the peak of the rut finished, make the right call this month for South Carolina bucks.
For three years, I hunted this same buck with only fleeting sightings of him — usually in the opening week and during the rut. Not once did I ever have even a remote opportunity to draw my bow. […]
Deer Hunting
Inaugural Farmers Manage Deer termed successful
It may seem odd to spot a hunter holding a rifle in the bed of a grain trailer parked behind a tractor in a soybean field. But that’s exactly where Bill Cannon’s guide had put him on one of the first Farmers Manage Deer hunts; the guide was the farm’s owner, Chandler Worley. […]
Deer of the Year
Rockingham County spits out another huge archery buck
You can’t blame Eric League if he’s looking forward to his father, Art League, going deer-hunting in Kansas next season and leaving him home again. […]
Hunting
New adhesive product can provide quick repairs in the field to almost anything
Vettec’s SG-20 is a new product marketed as a quick fix for leaky waders and hip boots, but we discovered rather quickly that it works on more than those two problems – and heavier ones at that. […]
Deer of the Year
Teen’s 600-yard shot downs possible record-book buck
“Sometimes things are just meant to happen.” That’s how Eddie Wilson of Newberry described the Oct. 12 hunt when his 13-year-old nephew shot a potential record-book buck while sitting on his lap – at 600 yards! […]
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SCDNR has plans for cormorant hunting season on Santee Cooper lakes
The impact of an increasing population of double-crested cormorants on the forage base in the Santee Cooper lakes has become so severe that the S.C. Department of Natural Resources has announced a plan for a nearly 2-month hunting season on the birds after the close of duck season. […]