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FLOATSTAND
Add life-like motion to your spread with the FLOATSTAND, a floating platform designed to support your spinning wing decoy in a variety of water depths and hunting situations. […]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
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Final shot — Tips for late-season North Carolina ducks
As deer season comes to a close on New Year’s Day, many hunters trade in their lead for steel-packed rounds to battle the wind, cold and the final visiting flocks of feathered opponents. […]
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Quacks and Timberdoodles — How to make the most of your late-season duck and woodcock hunts
By January, the easy bird hunting is long past, unless a plantation-owning friend invites you for a quail hunt. Aside from plantation or shooting-preserve quail, however, other wild birds are legal game this month.
Duck season is still in full swing, and woodcock season runs all month.
It is an understatement to say that most South Carolina bird hunters do not focus on woodcock, but hunters with dogs — especially transplanted Yankees — love them. Woodcock are a favorite of bird dogs because they are easy. Put your dogs in good woodcock cover, and they will find the birds. Woodcock are easy to smell, easy to point and flush, and easy to carry on a retrieve. […]
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Show off your moves
The main difference between a flock of real ducks and a fine spread of decoys is motion. Ducks rarely sit in one place for more than a second or two unless they are resting. […]
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WMA lands with woodcock cover
For woodcock, biologist Billy Dukes of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources suggests several public hunting opportunities availabilities on WMAs. […]
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Legacies live on!
Across the country, hunting is not drawing a lot of collective interest from the nation’s youth, and North Carolina is one of the few states showing an interest in preserving and promoting the time-treasured pastime of hunting. […]
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The right stuff for woodcock
Opinions vary on the perfect woodcock gun. Purists may insist on a classic side-by-side classic English double gun in 20-gauge, possibly with a straight grip. […]
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Swans by water — hunting tundra swans over waterfowl impoundments
The tundra swan is the largest waterfowl species hunted in North Carolina. In bygone years, traditional hunts included decoying them on the water or sneaking up on them in a boat, but modern agriculture changed all that. […]
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High Pressure Quackups
Hunting and fishing parallel one another on a number of levels. […]
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SCDNR announces license-free hunting days next week
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources will offer Jan. 4-5, 2013, as free hunting days, with state residents allowed to hunt without a state hunting license or other permits normally required by the state for the first time ever. […]