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North Carolina stuck in dead zone as duck migrations start and stall
Temperatures are high and expectations are low as the third segment of North Carolina’s three-part waterfowl season gets underway. […]
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Borrow pits: duck havens
Over the past 20 years, federal dollars have upgraded transportation facilities in every county in both North Carolina and South Carolina to handle the booming human population settling in the South. […]
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Set a tasty spread of decoys and kill more ducks this season
The predawn was a lot colder than normal for the opening of waterfowl season. A thin layer of ice covered the small lake that a good flock of mallards had been using. […]
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Surprising arrival of teal makes early duck season a good one on Yadkin River
If often seems that North Carolina’s waterfowl seasons are too early or too late to match up with migrating waterfowl. The birds stall up north due to warm weather or push south in between the staggered seasons, so hunters can’t get to them. […]
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Know your limits, regs, times
Every year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts aerial surveys to estimate the breeding population of waterfowl across Canada and the northern United States. […]
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A quick construction project
Building a good blind in a beaver pond is a matter of using what the beavers have provided. […]
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‘Less is more’ duck hunting – With the right approach, beaver ponds can make for great duck hunting across South Carolina
The morning mist lifted off the still water as the sun began to peek over the horizon. Soft ripples revealed a beaver returning to his lodge. […]
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Early duck hunting very good; SCDNR said it could be excellent season
Excellent conditions for waterfowl have kicked off what could be one of the best ducks seasons in South Carolina in many years, according to waterfowl biologist Dean Harrigal of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. […]
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Beaufort DU Warriors Hunt puts Marines in range of great duck hunting
What do you get when you assemble 15 active duty GI’s – combat-experienced Marines actually – with the Beaufort Chapter of Ducks Unlimited and a half-dozen generous landowners? […]
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Plan your duck season
Thanksgiving weekend closed out the short, teaser sessions that primed the valves and got every waterfowl hunter excited about bagging a limit of ducks in the Carolinas’ flooded country. […]