East Central NC Archives - Page 17 of 112

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

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

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. […]

Randy O'Neal shot this buck on Nov. 15 from 20-yards away, but based on the deer's reaction, he thought he'd missed. He hadn't.

Pelzer hunter shoots 8-point buck which stands firm, then charges him

Brian Cope

Deer season is over, but late reports of deer hunts that took place in 2015 are still trickling in. One of the strangest involves a Greenville County 8-point buck that didn’t seem to realize it was even shot. […]

NCWRC officials have charge 4 people with crimes that left 26 deer dead in Edgecombe County.

4 charged in deer slaughter in Edgecombe County

Brian Cope

Officers with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission are investigating a case that have left them in disbelief. At a home in Pinetops, officers found 26 dead deer. […]

Dieter Melhorn has got Lake Wylie’s blue catfish figured out, especially during January and other winter months.

Wylie’s Cool Cats are the ticket this month at Lake Wylie

Terry Madewell

Lake Wylie, which straddles the border between North Carolina and South Carolina, has developed into one of the premier catfishing reservoirs for both states. […]

A relatively new cutover provides some great, thick habitat for rabbits and gives hunters with good beagles a great day afield.

Bust Upstate bunnies – South Carolina’s Upstate is home to a lot of good habitat and great rabbit hunting

Pete Rogers

Our truck followed a long, gravel road through the Sumter National Forest near the border of Laurens and Newberry counties. Cutover land lined both sides of the road for more than a mile — prime habitat for cottontail rabbits — and after another half-mile, we found a safe place to park. […]

Woody David Swaney killed this big-racked buck in Anderson County on Dec. 19.

Seasoned Pendleton hunter kills potential top-5 South Carolina buck

L. Woodrow Ross

Woody David Swaney of Pendleton, SC is 53-years-old and has been deer hunting for 46-years, and took his first buck when he was only 7-years-old with a single-barrel shotgun. […]

Mark Page of Inman took this nice buck that he didn't even know was on his property. It has been green-scored at 164 5/8-inches.

Inman hunter kills trophy 164 5/8-inch buck

Brian Cope

Inman’s Mark Page has been managing a tract of private hunting land in Spartanburg County for about 15-years, and he’s killed some nice deer on it, but he didn’t know one particular deer was even on his land until the day he killed it while hunting last month. […]

Jesse James benefitted from the bottleneck feature of his small hunting tract when this buck with a 136 7/8-inch rack offered him a clean shot on Nov 11.

Wilson County hunter kills trophy buck on small hunting tract

Brian Cope

Wilson County’s Jesse James doesn’t have a large hunting tract. It’s less than 2-acres big, but thanks to recent logging on adjacent property, the small plot of woods is a bottleneck for wildlife moving back and forth to larger wooded areas nearby. […]

Hunter Henderson killed this buck just minutes after his dad shot the bear during a hunt in Jones County.

Jones County father-son duo kills bear and deer on same hunt

Brian Cope

When Jim Henderson and his son Hunter took to the woods last week, they knew it was a split season for bear and deer on their Jones County property, but they couldn’t have dreamed they would each take one animal apiece, but that’s exactly what happened. […]