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Some WMA dove hunts draw a crowd of hunters on opening day, but in many cases, that makes the shooting better.

WMA Dove Details

The first segment for South Carolina’s 3-part dove season opens Sept. 2 and runs through Oct. 5, with shooting limited to afternoon for the first six days. […]

Mushrooms are a favorite food for deer; they have profited greatly from the wet spring and summer.

Overlook toadstools? Deer won’t!

Jeff Burleson

Mushrooms are one of the most-overlooked deer foods available during just about every month, including the approaching fall and winter. […]

Late-season hunts on WMA dove fields are colder, with less cover, fewer hunters, but still plenty of doves.

Youth dove hunts

John Gribb

Bream fishing and dove shooting. Are there any better ways to introduce youngsters to outdoor sports? […]

Small sunflower seeds are the foundation of a good dove field, especially an early season field.

Prepping your own dove field

John Gribb

Would you like to host a classic dove shoot for your friends? Staging such an event elevates hosts into exalted company. […]

In South Carolina’s public dove fields, hunters shoot a very large percent of the annual harvest on opening days, but there are good hunts on the second and occasionally the third hunt day of the early season — with far fewer hunters. […]

The length in inches between an alligator’s nostrils and his eyes is approximately the same as the animal’s total length in feet.

Determining the size of your alligator

Pete Rogers

The length of an alligator can be estimated by determining the length in inches) between the center of the skull — between the eyes — and the nostrils. This number gives you the approximate length of the alligator in feet. […]

Marshall French of Sumter’s Duck Bottom Plantation shows off a nice alligator taken during the 2012 season near Georgetown.

Calling alligators

Pete Rogers

Another method that is often overlooked is calling alligators. Biologist Jay Butfiloski offers a word of caution. […]

A big treble snatch hook and a special arrow point are common accessories for gator hunters.

Getting in gear

Pete Rogers

To hunt alligators, you need something to connect with them that will allow you to drag them to the boat to be dispatched. […]

Four South Carolina hunters were convicted in Colorado this past week for illegally hunting deer and elk with poison arrows.

Four South Carolina men convicted of using poison arrows in Colorado

Pat Robertson

The admission in a Colorado court this past Tuesday by four men from South Carolina that they used poison arrows to take big game in Colorado and in their home state has raised the ire of ethical bowhunters in the Palmetto State who are calling for legislation to ban the practice. […]

Commercial fishermen can no longer set small-mesh gill nets closer than 100 yards to the beach on most of North Carolina's coastline.

State moves gill nets off the beach to protect bottlenose dolphin

Jerry Dilsaver

Gill net fishermen along most of the North Carolina coast received a setback – literally and figuratively – from regulations that become effective Sept. 15 that will require small-mesh gill nets to be set a minimum of 100 yards from the beach to protect bottlenose dolphins. […]