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Making decoys and calls works
Any successful duck hunter understands the importance of being in the right place when birds are in the air. If the flock never passes by, few birds will come home to the dinner table. […]
Statewide NC
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Find wood for woodies
As soon as duck season arrives, diehard waterfowlers patrol swamps, rivers and estuaries. […]
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Refrain from rallying
With an excellent duck season predicted, South Carolina will likely support huge waves of migrating birds for much of the season. […]
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Bring home the bacon
With hog-hunting regulations growing less stringent and the animals becoming more widespread, you’d think hunting them would be getting easier, but that’s not the case. […]
Hog Hunting
Calling all hogs
I have had some luck with a call to attract hogs. I can’t honestly say that it works all the time “as seen on TV,” but it’s probably going to do more good than harm to try it out. […]
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Hot Hole Fishing
North Carolina usually doesn’t get its coldest winter weather until about the third week of January, but some years – 2010 and 2011 being fine examples — the freeze arrives in time for the Christmas holidays. […]
Hog Hunting
Clemson going ‘whole hog’ after feral pigs
The Clemson Cooperative Extension Service has established the South Carolina Wild Hog Task Force to coordinate educational, research and management efforts to reduce the problems associated with wild hogs in our state. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Go to ‘school’ in the hot hole
Some canals or creeks that carry warm-water discharge away from power plants have restricted access to boats. The mouth of the warm-water discharge canal at Belews Lake, for example, is barricaded to keep boats out. […]
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Cover: December 2012 (NC)
Johnathan McVey killed this monster buck in Orange County on the first day of the blackpowder season. […]
Hog Hunting
Any weapon will work — behind a hog’s ear
A lot of hunters who haven’t targeted hogs don’t know what weapon to use. Any high-powered rifle or slug gun that is sufficient for a whitetail deer will put down most any pig, assuming bullet placement is on the money. […]