Turkey Hunting
NCWRC teaming with NWTF to offer 14 turkey hunting seminars
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, along with the National Wild Turkey Federation, is offering 14 free turkey hunting seminars across the state in March. […]
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2016 turkey season was 2nd best in state’s recorded history
North Carolina turkey hunters produced the second-highest harvest on record during this past spring’s season, taking 17,932 birds, an increase of 104 over the 2015 season. […]
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Scouting for turkeys from the deer stand will pay off this spring
It’s never to early to scout for turkeys, so look for certain features of the land you’re hunting while in the deer stand to get a better feel for where turkeys will be this spring. […]
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Turkey hunters break harvest record for sixth straight season
North Carolina hunters broke the state’s wild-turkey harvest record during the 2013 spring gobbler season for the sixth-straight year, according to statistics released by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. […]
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Bearded hen taken in Columbus County may be NC’s biggest ever
A long-awaited opportunity finally ended in success for a Columbus County hunter on April 16 when he killed a trophy bearded hen that’s unofficially the best ever killed in North Carolina. […]
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Commission tables pen-raised deer proposals, approves Youth-Only Wild-Turkeys season
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission backed off several of its proposed changes to hunting, fishing and trapping regulations, voting to table one controversial proposal and altering several before approving them at the Nov. 8 meeting. […]
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Turkey seasons set for biological reasons
Retired turkey biologist Mike Seamster said the angst today among many Tarheel State turkey hunters is caused because “they’re scouting before the season starts and hearing gobblers, so that’s when they want the season to open.” […]
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North Carolina turkey pro says to call less often, less loud
If Marshall Collette of Greensboro strung together all the beards from the turkeys he’s killed or called in for other hunters on a piece of rawhide, you could probably use it to measure for first downs in a football game. […]
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Seven tips for turkey hunting success
Both Fant’s Grove and Keowee WMAs are in Game Zone Two and cover areas around Lake Hartwell. Biologist Tom Swayngham of SCDNR said both WMAs offer excellent hunting opportunities for turkey hunters. […]
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Three beards make trophy gobbler for female hunter
Breann Young has only been turkey hunting a week, but it’s likely that everything is downhill from here. […]