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September 2, 2026

Hunters can learn about white-tailed deer from one of the south’s top experts at the Cape Fear Branch QDMA seminar at Howell Woods Learning Center.

QDMA Offers Seminar at Howell Woods

The Cape Fear River Branch of Quality Deer Management Association will hold a June 23 white-tailed deer workshop free of charge at Howell Woods Environmental Learning Center.
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The odds are about 1 in 1,000 for harvesting a record buck in S.C., but 168 were discovered during scoring sessions this spring.

S.C. Antler Scoring Sessions Reveal New Records

SCDNR News Release

The most recent round of white-tailed deer antler scoring conducted by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources revealed 168 new records including one potential Boone and Crockett record. […]

The Bersa is about the same size as the Glock, but has a slimmer profile and deeper grip, making it much easier to hide and shoot. It costs half as much, but the .380 Auto is not nearly as much of a self-defense cartridge as the 9mm Parabellum. The Bersa has proven to be a dependable and accurate handgun in the author’s tests.

Don’t underestimate Bersa .380s

Gordon Hutchinson

Small, flat-sided semiautomatic pistols have long been popular with law-enforcement officers as hide-away or backup guns to supplement their duty weapons. […]

The author demonstrates the results of a shot with his Ruger Super Redhawk in .454 Casull. The bullet was a 335-grain Hard Cast solid lead slug at approximately 1,600 fps from CorBon. Another dedicated hunter, Abbie Pi, daughter of CorBon V-P Peter Pi Jr., sits on the130-pound boar with the author. Abbie made every hunt with her dad, and helped trail several hogs.

Casull dishes it, if you can take it

Gordon Hutchinson

Like a spouse in a dysfunctional relationship, I find myself missing the abuse.

After all, I had developed a really close relationship with the Ruger Super Redhawk over a four-day hunt for European boar and feral hogs at Caney Creek Lodge. […]

Use of decoy turkeys often will pull a jealous gobbler several hundred yards to within gun range.

Gobbler Dreams

Craig Holt

One of the tenets of successful trophy deer hunting also holds true for chasing spring wild turkeys — go where the gobblers are. […]

Chufas are a food plot plant that needs to be put in the ground during the spring, then hunters can reap the rewards the following year.

Plotting for Turkeys

Walt Rhodes

Walking through the hurricane-ravaged Francis Marion National Forest, the logging road provided the only clear path illuminated by an April full moon. […]

Thousands of snow geese fly off Pungo and Phelps lakes each day from December through March, posing a threat to low-flying aircraft.

Final Chance to Address Navy OLF Plan April 17

Craig Holt

The public will get a final chance April 17 in Charlotte to have input regarding the Navy’s plan to place at Outlying Landing Field in eastern N.C. near Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge and threaten wintering birds and its own pilots.
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North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Chairman Wes Seegars said he represented 847,000 licensed conservationists and he was not aware of a single one that was in favor of building the OLF at the Navy's preferred site and there were easily workable and preferred alternatives.

Wildlife Resources Commission Hammers OLF Site Proposal

From News Reports

ROPER, N.C. (April 9) – An overflow crowd spilled into a parking lot full of farm tractors and “No OLF” posters Wednesday night, as more than 600 people gathered to show their opposition to the U.S. Navy’s proposed Outlying Landing Field in Washington and Beaufort counties. […]

Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., recently told the Navy she was "deeply concerned" about the OLF project in Eastern N.C.

Dole Submits OLF Questions to Navy

North Carolina Sportsman

PLYMOUTH — A day after hundreds of citizens attended a hearing regarding a proposed Navy landing field in eastern North Carolina and two days after Governor Mike Easley said he wasn’t getting much cooperation from the state’s two U.S. senators, N.C.’s senior senator told the Navy she was “deeply concerned” about the project. […]