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Trail cameras set near bedding areas can give hunters a better idea of where to set up after the peak of the rut passes.

Check your trail camera after dark

Hunters use game cameras to monitor deer movements and identify mature bucks. […]

Decoys with realistic paint jobs and actions, like these Fowl Foolers, can give waterfowl hunters an edge in small waters.

Putting out decoys, even for woodies, can be a plus

Talk to a dozen hunters, and you’ll get your share of those who’ll say wood ducks don’t respond to decoys, but you’ll get just as many who’ll say the opposite. […]

Carolina Swamp Calls were born out of a handful of duck hunters’ desire for calls better than those commercially available.

Lee County duck hunters came up with new line of calls

Brian Cope

Calling is a major part of duck hunting to Chuck Amerson. After years of unhappiness with the inconsistencies of commercially-available duck calls, Amerson, his brother Ethan, his father Mike, and friend Scott Rollins, all of Lee County, partnered to make their own calls. […]

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. […]

Mecklenburg Hunting Club produces some trophy bucks in North Carolina’s Sandhills, but opening the sport to younger hunters is an equal goal.

Habitat improvement series: Mecklenburg Hunting Club in the Sandhills

Jeff Burleson

For 50 years, Mecklenburg Hunting Club has offered superb hunting opportunities for its 70-member cast in the middle of North Carolina’s Sandhills region. […]

Hunting

Keep those cameras focused

Jeff Burleson

Even though trail cameras have been around for decades, hunters have only recently learned how to get the most out of their surveillance equipment. […]

This main-frame 10-pointer with one split brow tine was taken Nov. 8 in Moore County after James Diesfeld helped a friend trim around his stands.

Watch the wind, cover scent when deer hunting

Jerry Dilsaver

James Diesfeld’s biggest advice for other deer hunters is to manage what you can, and two of the easiest are working with the wind and eliminating human scent. […]

Lead for ammunition will likely cost more after the nation's largest lead smelter closes its doors because it can't meet tougher air-pollution restrictions.

Expect rise in ammo prices because smelter is closing, NRA says

Craig Holt

Whether or not the federal government is engaged in a plot to deny citizens ammunition for their guns, there’s no doubt government regulations will put the nation’s last and only lead smelter out of business next month. […]

Rube, Barrett, Caroline, Brayden, Amy and Brant McMullan of Team Ocean Isle Fishing Center won the SKA National Championship this past weekend with their 56.28- and 48.82-pound kings.

Ocean Isle Fishing Center team wins third SKA National Championship

Jerry Dilsaver

If the third time tells the tale, the tale has been told on the fishing knowledge and abilities of the Ocean Isle Fishing Center fishing team, which this past Saturday won its third Southern Kingfish Association National Championship. […]