Plant sunflowers now in smaller deer plots

Sunflowers are a surprise answer to the question: Is there anything I can plant to help with this deer season?

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Early Season Bucks: When ‘Less Is More’

English teachers call them oxymorons — the joining of two words or phrases that would seem to be contradictions. Like, for instance, “jumbo shrimp.”

Early season requires plenty of stand options

Hunters need multiple deer stand options in the early season when bucks are most predictable, but wind direction is not.

Deer movement increases in October throughout South Carolina

According to biologist Charles Ruth of SCDNR, one of the first things a hunter needs to understand is the biological change that causes deer to move a lot during October.

Deer will be on agricultural offerings for much of the spring, summer

Hunters that provide a food source for their deer herd throughout the late spring and summer will benefit when deer hunting season opens in the fall.

Hunting the flood

Hunting season arrives annually, just when cooler weather begins to make its mark, but it’s during the peak of hurricane season in the Carolinas.

What’s in your deer pack?

Deer hunting has not been immune from advances in technology and tactics. Hunters run the gamut from bringing nothing more than a weapon and a pair of boots to an organized pack that contains everything [...]

Hunters should focus on soft mast for early season deer

Hunters should focus on soft mast when hunting deer in the early season.

Make sense of deer scents

Is there any doubt that a deer’s ability to smell at great distances is it’s greatest defense? 

October deer tactics

Deer hunters across North Carolina carry a variety of weapons into the woods in October. Archery season is the ticket in the northwestern corner of the state and throughout the Piedmont.