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August 28, 2026

Lindy Ammons’ setter, Clyde, wears a GPS tracking collar that helps Ammons keep track of him when he’s hunting grouse in heavy cover.

Grouse hunters keep track of dogs with GPS collars

Lindy Ammons is an old-school grouse hunter who believes in covering lots of ground, giving his setter, Clyde, his head so he can lead the hunt. Keeping up with the dog is just short of a foot race at a fast-walking pace, so another hunter needs to be in good shape to keep up with him.

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A lot of late-season ducks are killed later in the day by hunters who locate big, open-water areas where ducks are resting after finishing their early morning feeding periods.

South Carolina duck particulars

Jeff Burleson

The second and longest segment of South Carolina’s duck season began Dec. 12 and runs through Jan. 31. Hunting is legal between 30 minutes before sunrise and sunset. […]

Enormous piles of vegetables, including onions, cabbage, sweet potatoes and corn, will draw in hungry wild hogs.

A great pile of vegetables will bring wild hogs into gun range

Mike Marsh

To attract massive numbers of hogs and hold them in the vicinity, hunters should use lots of bait. […]

Don’t wait for a perfect shot as duck season wanes; if you get birds in range, let fly.

Take all reasonable shots for South Carolina ducks

Jeff Burleson

As the season wears on, ducks become more and more skeptical of any place they might want to drop their feet. […]

A good pair of binoculars can help hunters determine which wild hogs have the biggest tusks if a trophy animal is the objective.

Picking out a trophy wild hog can be tough for many hunters

Mike Marsh

Shooting the first feral hog that steps clear from a group or “sounder” and offers a good shot would be fine for a hunter interested mostly in the meat, but for a hunter looking for a trophy boar and a full head mount or skull mount, it requires steady nerves to find the one with the longest tusks. […]

GPS tracking collars allow hunters like Eric Braselton to keep up with the movements of beagles on a rabbit hunt.

GPS collars have helped rabbit hunters

Pete Rogers

GPS collars have been a game changer for rabbit hunters, allowing them to know within a few feet exactly where their dogs are running. […]

Although huge decoy spreads on big water are a given late in the season, make sure the decoys farthest from your blind are still well within shotgun range.

Keep big decoy spreads in shotgun range

Jeff Burleson

Hunters kill ducks by either pass-shooting them hidden in a flyway or hunkered down in a blind with a collection of decoys floating around. For most, the most-enjoyable way to kill a limit of ducks is when they dive into a decoy spread set right in front of their shotguns. […]

A pack of beagles in the dog box is raring to go in cottontail rabbit territory.

Training collars can tone down disobedient beagles

Pete Rogers

Training collars for dogs, also known as “shock collars” can be the difference between a poor dog and a great dog, according to rabbit hunter Eric Braselton, who said using them is “essential” for good training. […]

Anglers are allowed to keep one red drum per day between 18 and 27 inches.

Commission’s tight regulations have revived red drum

Craig Holt

In the 17 years since the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission defined catch standards to prevent overfishing, and the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission published a fisheries management plan for the species that set more-restrictive limits for commercial and recreational fishermen, red drum have thrived in North Carolina waters. […]

Disking between rows of pines after prescribed winter burning will generate plenty of new growth and wildlife habitat.

Disk between rows of pines after prescribed burning

Jeff Burleson

On average, pine plantations comprise nearly 25 percent of the forested cover in the Carolinas. Since a quarter of those are in homogeneous stands with uniform rows, the rows left empty after thinning can be manipulated through disking or harrowing to create corridors of beneficial wildlife habitat. […]