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April 30, 2026

White-tailed bucks like to travel in thick places, but they’ll often venture into the open during late October as they seek does.

Lifetime Buck

Dan Kibler

Jordan Barnes isn’t a run-of-the-mill 10-year-old boy. […]

Small-size pointing dogs that work close are good choices for grouse hunters. Wide-ranging pointers probably should stay at home.

Mountain Magnets

Don Mallicoat

Ginny’s high tail, flaring nostrils and the intensity of her point told me she had a snoot full of bird scent. […]

Bill Barrett knocked down this big wild pig at Howell Woods last year.

While N.C. legislators wrangled with pork-barrel spending from a $2.1-billion surplus, Luke Vande Guchte of Wake Forest knew what his family would be spending some of their money for – a taxidermy mount of his first big-antlered buck deer. […]

Neil Alford of Raleigh, who tagged N.C.’s No. 1 non-typical muzzle-loader trophy last year, said his food plot has attracted three more trophy bucks.

Basket Racks to Rocking Chairs

Craig Holt

Some white-tailed deer hunters like to place their stands atop ridges; some prefer hardwood slopes with dropping acorns; and some set up close to scrapes or where they’ve discovered big rub trees. […]

Cover: October 2006 (SC)

South Carolina Sportsman

South Carolina hunters can actually manipulate the timing of the rut to stack the odds in their favorite. […]

When weather is cool and wet as opposed to hot and dry, the ground holds bear scent better for dogs.

Bear Boom

Scott Keepfer

For Robert Chapman, it’s all about the dogs. […]

To get ducks in close, hunters need to learn to use subtle calls, including learning how to vary pitches and cadences that actually sound like ducks. Ducks usually descend the scale of sound with their calls, with each sound a little shorter than the imme

Talk Different to Ducks

John E. Phillips

To have success this duck season, hunters need to understand how to talk different to ducks. […]

The rut in Piedmont S.C. runs from Oct. 15-Nov. 15, according to SCDNR deer supervisor Charles Ruth. It’s about a month later in the mountains.

Rutted Adjustment

Walt Rhodes

As I grow older, the amount and type of stuff that stays stuck in my mind like pluff mud on hip boots is amazing. […]

Cindy Garrison, right, host of ESPN2's "Get Wild With Cindy Garrison," is the new spokeswoman of NWTF's Women in the Outdoors program.

Cindy Garrison Becomes Women in the Outdoors Spokeswoman

From News Reports

EDGEFIELD, S.C. – Cindy Garrison, host of ESPN2’s “Get Wild With Cindy Garrison,” became the newest Women in the Outdoors spokeswoman at the official signing of her agreement in Edgefield, S.C., Sept. 11. […]

Banded birds may be part of dove limits

Scott Keepfer

For the fourth straight year, South Carolina hunters may find a banded mourning dove in their bag this dove season. […]