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. […]
William Johnson of Bamberg, South Carolina experienced an action-packed evening during his first deer hunt of the season on Aug. 21. After laying eyes on nearly a dozen deer in Allendale County and getting ready to seal the deal on a 10-point, he changed his mind when a tall-racked, 195-pound, 12-point slipped into his shooting lane. […]
The August heat didn’t keep Fairview’s Daphnie Hallman from going deer hunting on opening week. And the second day of the 2017 season ended victoriously for the Lexington County native with a fine eight-point buck with an 18-inch inside spread. […]
The 2016 deer hunting season was a big success for 15-year-old Florence, S.C. hunter Nathan Collier. He killed a 185-pound 8-point buck in full velvet in August. The buck sported an inside spread of 18 1/2 inches, and was the young hunter’s first kill with a bow. […]
As Kevin Bartlett of Black Mountain and his 11-year-old daughter, Addison sat side by side in their ladder stand on Thanksgiving morning, they knew two things: a 15-point buck was in the area and the wind was in their face, coming from the direction they expected him. […]
Casey Haizlip, a 16-year-old sophomore at Western Alamance High School, is a member of the school’s dance team, but she had a different reason to dance the afternoon of Nov. 21 after she bagged a 16-point buck that had been hunted hard by most of her male relatives and other men in the community. […]
Randy Hobbs wasn’t planning on deer hunting on Nov. 5, the second Saturday of blackpowder season near his Gibsonville, N.C., home. He had a 10 a.m. meeting at the church he pastors, New Hope Baptist Church in Burlington. […]
Making a last minute decision put Burlington native, Steven Fazzino, on the map with a huge 155-inch Person County giant on Nov. 14. But, this wasn’t the first time Fazzino had looked at this massive mainframe 10. […]
In November of 2015, Marcus Church of Seneca, S.C. spotted a deer on his trail camera that caught his eye. The 9-point buck sported a messed up tine that led Church to nickname it Crabby Nine, and it made the deer easy to keep track of. […]
In 2015, Bud Long of Greensboro killed a trophy buck on Halloween day. And on the day before Thanksgiving this year, Long killed another whopper on the same property – a 10-pointer sporting a green score of 158 inches. […]
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