Deer Hunting
N.C. deer harvest is off 7.8 percent
North Carolina hunters mostly found last year’s deer season a downer, and statistics released in late April by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission proved them out. […]
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Deer of the Year
2016 Deer of the Year
It didn’t take deer hunters in North Carolina and South Carolina very long to make their marks this past fall. Even with a big crop of acorns on the ground in many places — usually a harbinger of a tough whitetail season — a lot of big bucks began falling in September, and they never quit. […]
Deer of the Year
Caswell County hunter kills 17-point, 170-class buck
With a borrowed rifle, and with his wife sitting in a nearby stand hoping to see a massive trophy buck they’d been tracking for more than 3 years in Caswell County, Mike Gibbs shot that very buck, a 17-point brute that has been green-scored at 170-inches. […]
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Teen huntress kills her biggest buck, kills an even bigger one the next day
The 2016 N.C. deer season will be one for the record books for 14-year-old Tori Henderson of Rougemont. Henderson shot a 112-inch six pointer on Nov. 17 and then turned around and shot a 137-inch, 13-point whopper the next day from the same Person County tree stand. […]
Deer Hunting
In November, hunters should spend more time in the stand
November means one thing to most bowhunters: time to hunt whitetails. As the most widely distributed, abundant and accessible big-game animal in North America; they are hunted more than any other species. […]
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Cheraw hunter kills 140-class buck in Chesterfield County
Glen Lampley of Cheraw was late getting in the stand on election day. Late enough that he heard another hunter shoot in the near distance. But that didn’t stop him from killing the biggest buck of his life, a 140-class 8-point buck with an 18-inch inside spread. […]
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10-year-old kills 130-class buck in Pender County
Ten-year-old Jacob Pearce of Currie killed his first buck, an 8 pointer, on Nov. 5, and his dad said while it was a nice buck, especially for a first, it was nothing compared to the buck he killed just five days later. […]
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Hartsville hunter’s quick hunt ends with 14-point, 143-inch buck
Last Saturday morning’s hunt for TC Lloyd of Hartsville was over in a flash as his rifle muzzle lit up the woods well before the sun crept over the horizon, and before many folks were out of bed, Lloyd had his hands on a 143-inch, 14-point Darlington County buck at 6:15 a.m. […]
Deer Hunting
Without alarms, deer more likely to run into trouble
The Carolinas, despite their rural setting, are far from what most people would call a wilderness. The overwhelming majority of the states’ deer population is accustomed to automobile horns, sirens, dogs barking and other symptoms of human occupancy. […]
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Greensboro hunter scores big buck on second-chance encounter
A few days after missing a crossbow shot on a fine buck in Guilford County, Chad Thousand of Greensboro blasted the 137 5/8-inch bruiser on Oct. 29, the opening day of muzzleloader season. […]