Currents
Time to get ducks, er, deer, in a row
Sportsmen in South Carolina face some interesting things in the coming weeks. […]
October 2015
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Get on track and find bucks after the shot
It takes hours, days, sometimes years to figure out the daily travel patterns of a trophy buck. These grown-ups are scholars in the wilderness, living long enough to sense trouble from most of the average hunter’s tricks. […]
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Kings on the throne – The fall run of king mackerel off the Cape Fear River and Oak Island, N.C.
October is a special time in the ocean around the mouth of the Cape Fear River at Southport, where king mackerel gather between and try to devour every baitfish they can, arriving the last week or so of September and increasing in numbers until mid-October, when the slowly begin to move off the beach. […]
Backlashes
Threat assessment? Something is rotten
When is a threat not a threat? In the case of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission’s southern flounder fiasco in August, Rep. Bob Steinburg, a Republican who represents several northeastern North Carolina counties in the heart of commercial-fishing territory, made a very real threat to the members of the Commission. […]
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Powder burns aren’t all that bad, especially this month when primitive weapon season arrives in the Upstate
Other than a handful of Wildlife Management Areas below the fall line, primitive weapons seasons for deer in South Carolina have always been an Upstate thing. Maybe the proximity to the mountains is what beckons hunters to squeeze in a few days between stick-and-string and the heavy artillery to honor those pioneers who settled the land with their trusty smokepole at their side. […]