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September 19, 2026

Rice fields for ducks should be planted by early June and should be flooded immediately after germination to prevent competition from weeds.

Plant rice now for ducks!

The famed rice fields of the Mississippi Delta reel in ducks by the thousands each season, and for good reason. Rice is rich in carbohydrates and packed with energy. […]

While other camouflage patterns are based on mimicry and matching the environment, GORE OPTIFADE Concealment was developed based on animal vision and preventing the hunter from being recognized as a predator. […]

Sunflowers need two herbicide treatments to kill weeds: one before planting and one when plants are developing, 100 days from maturity.

Protect sunflowers now

Jeff Burleson

The 95-degree days of June can easily pull dove fanatics off course, but Labor Day is less than 100 days away. […]

Protecting a tiny area in each food plot from wildlife browsing will enable land managers to better gauge the effectiveness of fertilizer application and herbicide treatments.

It’s not too late to establish control areas

Jeff Burleson

Spring food plots should be coming up strong now, with deer and other wildlife beginning to show up regularly. […]

The SCDNR is taking applications for 1,200 permits for the 2012 alligator season.

Alligator hunting applications available online

SCDNR News Release

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has begun accepting online applications for the 2012 Public Alligator Hunting season and the Wildlife Management Area Alligator Hunting Season. […]

Blake Cox’s cinnamon wild turkey gobbler he shot April 20 in Guilford County is a 1-in-300,000 coloration pattern, experts said.

Cinnamon-colored gobbler spices up season for Kernersville hunter

Craig Holt

Odd coloration in Eastern wild turkeys is fairly common across the southeastern states, but Blake Cox of Kernersville bagged a gobbler that may take the 2012 prize in North Carolina. […]

South Carolina hunters could soon have expanded opportunities to take coyotes, as well as wild hogs and armadillos, as a bill works its way through the legislature.

Bill to expand coyote, wild hog and armadillo hunting opportunities takes another step forward

Pat Robertson

South Carolinians should soon get more ammunition to conduct the war on wild hogs, coyotes and armadillos. The Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Committee passed the House bill out with several proposed amendments last week and the full Senate is expected to take it up this week. […]

Lancaster County's Blake Hodge won his third state youth duck-calling championship.

Lancaster County youth is state duck-calling champion again

Pat Robertson

Blake Hodge lives and breathes duck hunting. When he’s not duck hunting, he’s practicing duck calling, and it pays off. […]

Dates for North Carolina’s spring turkey season are set to ensure that the first peak of the breeding (and gobbling) is finished before hunters are in the woods.

The Lull Ain’t Dull

Craig Holt

Being enraptured by the pursuit of wild turkeys is akin to enslavement by alcohol, cocaine, tobacco, gambling, golf or strange women. […]

Guide B.J. Keener holds up the gobbler taken by 8-year-old Cory Holbrooks of Franklin on an April 21 hunt for handicapped kids in Macon County.

Two youths take gobblers on Macon County handicapped hunt

Tony Robinson

For Miguel Villagomez, a visually impaired eighth grader who was guided by Gene Piver of Asheville, a long-time member of the National Wild Turkey Federation, the hunt ended with a bang at first light that left a big gobbler flopping on the ground. […]