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SWAROVSKI OPTIK binoculars

The new CL Companion 30mm binoculars from Swarovski Optik are among the smallest 30mm binoculars available, as they will fit in most outdoor jacket pockets. […]

Wildlife Commission Sets Public Hearing Dates

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has set the schedule for its annual public hearings. […]

Cover: June 2011 (NC)

North Carolina Sportsman

Target Spanish mackerel this month with “lite” live-bait rigs, and you’ll be quite happy with the results. […]

Jon and Ellis Cannon of Chapin won the Southern Crappie Tournament Trail’s season-ending tournament on Lake Hartwell with a 2-day catch of better than 25 pounds.

Hite grabs BASS win at Pickwick

Glenn Corley

Davy Hite of Ninety Six took home his eighth BASS tournament title in early April by winning a Bassmaster Elite event on Alabama’s Lake Pickwick. […]

This image compares the formation of lead sulfate deposits on battery plates over a simulated four-year period when recharged with a pulse charger (top row) or with a good conventional charger (bottom row).

Do your batteries die or are they killed?

Allan Tarvid

Industry experts say that excessive sulfation can stop batteries from working long before their internal components wear out. […]

The Ruger LCP in .380 ACP moved the earth when it was introduced, and caused a nationwide shortage of its ammo, a short 9MM round. The most frequent request heard by Ruger from its customers was to take the LCP to the next level, and make it in full-sized 9MM. The result: a palm-sized version of the LCP is called the LC9.

Pocket Rocket — Ruger’s new LC9 Compact Pistol

Gordon Hutchinson

A couple of years ago, at the Louisville NRA convention, I wandered over to the Ruger booth to watch Randell Pence, national sales manager for Ruger Firearms, doing a land-office business. […]

The Bradley Fork is one of dozens of excellent trout streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Park streams offer anglers plenty

Robert Satterwhite

If you don’t mind crowds, head for the Davidson, the Tuckasegee, the Nantahala and South Toe rivers. […]

Jason’s Lake on Botany Bay WMA is a great place for kayakers, especially youngsters, to try out some great fish from a kayak or canoe.

Botany Bay has plenty for paddlers

Phillip Gentry

In 2008, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources acquired Botany Bay Plantation, a 4,630-acre tract of land on the northern boundary of Edisto Island adjacent to the North Edisto River. […]

Most of the coyote predation on deer occurs during the first four to six weeks of a fawn’s life.

Off-Key Tune

L. Woodrow Ross

South Carolina’s statewide deer population has declined by about one-third since the mid-1990s. Habitat change, development and pine plantation monocultures have contributed, but a factor that parallels the drop in the deer population is the increase in the coyote population. […]