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Oyster-shell collection bins, such as this one at Wrightsville Beach in New Hanover County, are used where shells are collected in amounts too large for can-collection sites to handle.

Rockin’ Oysters

It would be a good program with just one of its results, but the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Oyster Shell Recycling Program is a triple winner. […]

Backlashes

Hamilton pushes Camo Coalition

Craig Holt

Richard “Dick” Hamilton, former executive director of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, wasted no time in putting his talents to use for N.C. wildlife after being forced out of the WRC.

Since Oct. 1, he’s been working with the N.C. Wildlife Federation, helping that group form its “Camouflage Coalition.” […]

Attendees at the Gun Rights Policy Conference took home a library of pro-Second Amendment books.

SAF, GRPC — alphabet soup for gun lovers

Gordon Hutchinson

In the middle of the frenetic activities of finishing a book and getting it ready for the printer, my publisher answered the phone to find the director of the Second Amendment Foundation on the line. […]

Bruce Chard, a guide in the Florida Keys, has some basic ideas he can teach to fly-fishermen to make them better casters and more successful anglers, whether they’re targeting the bonefish and tarpon of the Keys, or the redfish of the Lowcountry.

Fly-casting tips from a real pro

Jeff Dennis

The fall can be a busy time of year for sportsmen in South Carolina, having to balance family gatherings and other pleasurable social commitments. […]

With an extremely dry summer behind us and the usual winter drawdown approaching, reservoirs across South Carolina are many, many feet below normal pool, offering the opportunity to get out and scout for the kind of cover that will hold fish when the lake

Make the most from low water

Davy Hite

This year has been one of the driest on record in South Carolina and across much of the Southeast, but if you’re a fisherman, you can find a silver lining in that dark cloud. […]

Dressing by layer and using high-quality Gore-Tex wadersand outerwear can go a long way toward keeping a fisherman warm, dry and comfortable during the winter — when the alternative is downright unpleasant.

Keeping warm is one cool idea

Richard Bernabe

If you are like me, you fish all four seasons of the year. Cold weather can often lead to great fishing days, and you can usually count on having the best water all to yourself. […]

Huge decoy spreads are unnecessary when hunting on WMA draw hunts, because ducks that are resting or feeding on the water are usually found in small bunches — not huge flocks. A handful of well-placed decoys is a much more lifelike spread than two-dozen b

Open to the Public

Walt Rhodes

Arriving with the same excitement as a money-laden birthday card from Grandma, the result of my 2006-07 application for a waterfowl hunt was in my mailbox. […]