Newsletter - Page 1517 of 2135 - Carolina Sportsman

Armadillos can destroy a field, rooting up the ground in its search for food. That makes them perfect targets for varmint hunters, since no one complains when they are shot.

Handgunning for varmints

We were never overrun with those juicy targets we read about in the big sporting magazines — articles by guys who referred to their shooting cult as “varminters.” […]

ECU dental school student Christin Carter killed this 12-point Guilford County buck last Saturday on opening day of gun season.

ECU co-ed has trophy buck, jealous boyfriend

Dan Kibler

Christin Carter, a student in East Carolina University’s dental school, has been introduced to deer hunting by her boyfriend, Brad Whitman. […]

Derek Frick of Columbia has been catching a lot of Lake Murray crappie in the Little Saluda, shooting jigs under docks and fishing minnows around brush piles and bridge pilings.

Lake Murray crappie bite is picking up in Little Saluda area

Brian Cope

The crappie are biting on Lake Murray, and two popular techniques are keeping anglers busy: spider-rigging and single-pole fishing. […]

Guide Culley Wilson and 11-year-old Madison Moore pose with the 610-pound black bear she killed last week in Tyrrell County.

Winston-Salem girl kills huge black bear in Tyrrell County

Dan Kibler

An 11-year-old girl from Winston-Salem killed a 610-pound Tyrrell County black bear last Wednesday on a hunt that ended with the huge bear finally falling within 10 feet of the spot where she took the first shot of the encounter. […]

Guide Chris Heinning is catching stripers and largemouth bass in the same areas, on the same lures, at Lake Wateree.

Lake Wateree’s 2-for-1 special: stripers and largemouths

Terry Madewell

There’s a 2-for-1 special right now at Lake Wateree, with excellent fishing for largemouth bass along with the opportunity to catch bonus hefty stripers. […]

ProMariner chargers can be set to charge either flooded/standard AGM batteries or gel batteries.

Battery chargers with a pulse

Allan Tarvid

The chemical process that produces electrical power in a battery can also damage it without human intervention. […]

Donna Shaver killed this 153-inch, 10-point buck with a muzzleloader last Monday in Stanly County.

Stanly County produces 150-inch, 10-point buck for New London woman

Phillip Gentry

A New London woman celebrated Veteran’s Day in an unusual but exciting way by killing her best deer in more than 25 years, a 150-inch 10-pointer. […]

Shannon Clark's 5-pound, 8-ounce redfish was weekend's biggest, and she and husband Rennie won the Lowcountry Redfish Cup's championship.

Carolina Beach couple knocks off championship of South Carolina redfish tour

Jerry Dilsaver

Rennie and Shannon Clark of Carolina Beach decided earlier this year to fish the Lowcountry Redfish Cup trail – there being no trail in North Carolina in 2013. […]

A group of home-schooling parents in the Greenville area have started an archery team that has attracted the interest of 120 students.

Upstate home-school group starting archery team

L. Woodrow Ross

Families involved in home-schooling in Greenville and surrounding areas are starting a National Archery in the Schools Program. […]

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources manages dozens of areas for public waterfowl hunting.

Public waterfowl areas are great draws

Brian Cope

Waterfowlers who aren’t lucky enough to have their own private water to hunt have a friend in the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, which manages numerous waterfowl management areas specifically for hunting — and many of them are available only to walk-in hunting. […]