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. […]
Bobby Maher of Bronson, Fla., was down to his last half-hour on a recent deer-hunting trip to Erhardt, S.C., when he proved that “better late than never” holds true in a deer stand. […]
Ellis Atkinson takes an annual hunting trip to Texas and has killed her share of bucks, but the one she killed in Lynchburg, S.C. rivals the biggest one she’s killed in the Lone Star State. And it’s definitely the biggest one she’s killed in South Carolina. […]
On Oct. 29, the opening day of muzzleloader season in central North Carolina, Rockingham County’s RJ Seiler is on cloud nine. Again. Just last year, Seiler arrowed a 155-inch 8 pointer and his 2016 season is following a similar pattern with another lifetime buck scoring in the 140’s. […]
Dustin Hooks is a full time firefighter for the City of Charlotte and when he started getting daylight photos of a monster 13-point buck on his 200-acre Orange County family farm, he quickly scheduled a few days away from his Midland home to take his chances. […]
With 3 Pope and Young bucks under her belt before her latest trophy, Nancy “Tootie” Morris of Rougemont is no stranger to a deer stand or box blind. Still, she had to calm her nerves when surprised by the 145 inch Granville County 13 pointer that she called Meatloaf. […]
Shortly after 6:30 p.m. this past Saturday, Justin Kiker, a dedicated bowhunter from Midland, N.C., had his lifelong dream come true when he arrowed a 12-point buck that measured better than 171 inches on a family friend’s farm in rural Mecklenburg County. […]
Despite six weeks of trail camera photos that revealed nothing better than a 4-pointer on the 53-acre tract of land he hunts in Moore County, Dallas Marsh of Carthage got a shot in the arm when he freshened a corn pile on Oct. 16. […]
Jeff Barnhill of Cheraw, S.C., spends most of his life looking at trees as a forester for Edwards Wood Products. Even though he tramples through the woods every day, he always makes time to sit in the deer stand when North Carolina’s gun season arrives. […]
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