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For the Love of the Dove

In the beginning, Louis Batson III was his dad’s designated retriever in the dove field — a 5-year-old boy scrambling through corn stalks to pick up birds brought down by the blast of his father’s humpback Browning 12-gauge. […]

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Going Primitive

There is something mystical about the feel of a good primitive bow. It seems to come alive in the archer’s hands. Light, responsive and, when shot instinctively, they are very quick-handling. […]

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Let Mother Nature get on with her handiwork

The little municipal lake in my hometown is undergoing a tremendous drawdown this year, from 365 to 88 acres, as the local utilities commission puts in a new dam and prepares to put the wrecking ball to the existing one, which was built 100 years ago and is starting to, er, um, leak. […]

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Dove-Day Afternoon

The gray, feathered missile bobbed and weaved, riding the afternoon breeze as several loads of No. 8 lead shot narrowly missed making contact and sending it tumbling to the ground. […]

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2011-12 Game Lands Forecast

North Carolina has two million acres of public hunting lands on 89 game lands that dot the landscape from the ocean to the western border, a distance of approximately 500 miles. […]

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Bowhunters want part of bear-hunting action

With the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission bringing a series of proposed changes to bear-hunting regulations to public hearings in September, the North Carolina Bowhunters Association wants a piece of the pie, so to speak. […]