Hearing enhancement is often overlooked when hunting clear-cuts. How can it help when I’m hunting animals I don’t expect to see at close ranges? But it’s common to hear hunters say, “I heard the deer before I saw him when he was walking through the clear-cut. It sounds like paper tearing.” […]
For 21-year-old Collin Howlett of Walnut Cove, his deer hunting aspirations will be tough to match after his mind-boggling mid-day hunt on Nov. 5. Shortly after noon, Howlett drilled a 170 ¾-in bruiser on a friend’s Rockingham County hunting property after only sitting in the stand for 45 minutes. […]
Kayaks and canoes are the perfect watercraft to use in many different duck hunting situations. […]
Over the past decade, a number of organizations have been founded with the sole purpose of taking wounded military veterans fishing. […]
A new shooting range opened at Holly Shelter Game Land in Pender County on Nov. 4, 2016. Located at 8717 Shaw Highway, Rocky Point, N.C., the new range is just north of the WRC’s Holly Shelter Depot. […]
The waters off Cape Lookout aren’t known for producing lots of cubera snapper, but North Carolina’s last two state records have come from there, and the one Randy Harmon of Morehead City caught on Sept. 28 raised the record 11.5 pounds to 58 pounds. […]
Reidsville’s David Vaughn took a good buck on opening day, but his latest kill, a 169 4/8-inch wall hanger carrying a 24-inch inside spread, 27-inch main beams, and 5-inch bases is a true North Carolina whopper buck that was completely unexpected on the second Saturday of the muzzleloader season in the hills of Rockingham County. […]
The N.C. Wildlife Federation announced on Nov. 2 its plans to file a petition for rule making that would designate all coastal waters along North Carolina’s coast as nursery areas to reduce by-catch mortality due to trawling. […]
If you shy away from using big lures when fishing inshore for flounder, you might want to rethink things, especially if you plan on fishing near the Morehead City port wall anytime soon. James Ellis caught a 10.15-pound flounder there this week, and he did it with a pretty sizable lure. […]
The NCWRC is teaming up with Ducks Unlimited to offer three free seminars for waterfowl hunters. The seminars will be held on Nov. 15, 16, and 17. New hunters and experienced hunters will both benefit from these seminars, which run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. […]
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