It’s no secret that Rockingham County is home to some of the biggest bucks in the Carolinas, but Jordan Barnes was still surprised by the brute 9-point trophy he killed on Nov. 19. The buck has been green-scored at 146 4/8, but that’s not what surprised Barnes. […]
Mary Claissen Jones of Florence has been hunting with her dad for a number of years, and she’s killed her share of deer before, but on Nov. 8, she killed her biggest deer yet, a 10-point buck that’s been green-scored at 139 7/8 that she shot at 85 yards. […]
Jamin Floyd, a senior business major at Clemson University, went home for Thanksgiving holiday to be with his family and to do a little deer hunting. Never did he expect to take a 14-point buck while there. […]
Jim Andrews has kept tabs on a massive 8-point buck on his Orange County, N.C., hunting land for quite a while. Early on the afternoon of Nov. 28, his patience and experience managing his herd and providing premium habitat paid off in a big way when the 155-inch buck stepped out in plain sight, giving him a killing shot. […]
With a knee surgery scheduled for early December, Mary Morgan of Angier had been spending as much time as possible trying to bag a trophy buck before her hunting season is cut short. […]
Jaden Williams, a 13-year-old from Belews Creek, has big shoes to fill. His dad killed a 22-point buck last year that was one of the biggest bucks killed in North Carolina during the 2015 season. But the youth hunter took a big step in following those footsteps last week with his own trophy buck, a 7-point, 130-incher he killed in Guilford County. […]
For Jeremy Hardison of Bear Grass, the only bad day of hunting is a day he didn’t go. […]
For 21-year-old Collin Howlett of Walnut Cove, his deer hunting aspirations will be tough to match after his mind-boggling mid-day hunt on Nov. 5. Shortly after noon, Howlett drilled a 170 ¾-in bruiser on a friend’s Rockingham County hunting property after only sitting in the stand for 45 minutes. […]
Reidsville’s David Vaughn took a good buck on opening day, but his latest kill, a 169 4/8-inch wall hanger carrying a 24-inch inside spread, 27-inch main beams, and 5-inch bases is a true North Carolina whopper buck that was completely unexpected on the second Saturday of the muzzleloader season in the hills of Rockingham County. […]
Counties in southeastern North Carolina haven’t had much of a history of producing trophy whitetail bucks, despite being mostly rural, with near-perfect habitat for deer. […]
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