As a hair stylist, it’s not always easy for Nancy “Tootie” Morris of Rougemont, NC to make a living and make time for hunting. But, when her husband threatened to kill her buck — she cleared her schedule for the afternoon of Sept. 16 and took the 190-pound, Person County 12-point they had been watching since July. […]
For years, James Lang of Gray Court, S.C. had hoped to kill a South Carolina record book deer, and when he started getting photos of a big 9-point buck on several of his Laurens County stands, he knew bagging the buck of his dreams was a possibility. […]
Dylan Martin of Stoneville is lucky enough to have 600 acres of family land in Rockingham County, which is widely known as one of the state’s top trophy buck-producing areas. […]
A few minutes after 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 18, John Neese, a sheriff’s deputy in Guilford County, looked over his shoulder and saw the biggest buck of his life standing just 24 yards away in his corn pile. […]
For the last two years, Jason Carter of Snow Camp, North Carolina watched a tall racked 10-pointer grow to maturity on his hunting property in Alamance County after his summertime trail camera revealed the deer was still around and had blossomed into a real stud. Needless to say, the buck made the top of the hit list for the 2017 deer season. […]
As one of North Carolina’s fastest growing and most populated counties, Wake doesn’t always register with deer hunters. But, that didn’t stop Chris Phinney of North Raleigh from taking the biggest buck of his life — a full velvet 8-point that was given a gross green score just under 130 inches, on Sept. 9. […]
With his living room overflowing in buck mounts, Bradley Hughes of Elloree, S.C. admits he’s not really a “horn hunter” anymore. Unless he’s got a real trophy in his crosshairs, he’d rather fill his freezer with doe meat. But, on Aug. 19, he laid eyes on a buck that he could make room for — a full velvet, Orangeburg County 10-point. […]
For over four decades, Joey Johnston of Conway, South Carolina has trampled the woods in search of a buck capable of making the cut into the South Carolina record book. Every few years, Johnston kills a nice buck that always tapes out a few inches short of the 125 net minimum. […]
Colin Ford of Fayetteville, N.C., and his older sister, Stephanie Ford, of Raleigh, N.C., killed a couple of big bucks on back-to-back days two seasons ago. […]
For Pittsboro native Jake Muehlbach, North Carolina’s opening day of bow season was almost his last opportunity at a big nine-point buck he had been watching for over a month, thanks to Hurricane Irma, even though the storm damage was over 1,000 miles away on the Florida peninsula. […]
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