Ducks
Photo of the Week: Neal Queen’s duck hunt
Neal Queen of Marshville, N.C. is the winner of our Photo of the Week for the second full week of November 2021. […]
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Mark Malloy’s early season wood ducks
Mark Malloy killed these early-season wood ducks during a hunt in Reidsville, North Carolina on Oct. 21, 2021. […]
Hunting Reports
Photo of the Month: Kaitlin Lospinoso’s wood duck
Kaitlin Lospinoso’s photo of her with her first ever wood duck is the Carolina Sportsman Photo of the Month for January, 2021. For winning the January contest Kaitlin is eligible to receive a prize package […]
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Photo of the Week: Levi Branch with his first wood duck
Eight-year-old Levi Branch of Lumberton, N.C. is the Carolina Sportsman photo of the week for the second week of January 2021. He killed his first wood duck this month. Great job Levi!
Hunting Reports
Opening Day wood ducks
Mark Malloy and his buddy bagged a two-man limit of woodies near Reidsville, NC on the opening day of the 2020 season. A lot of people pass on the early season because its so warm, […]
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Free wood duck boxes available to private land owners
A limited number of free wood duck boxes will again be available to private landowners and other qualified applicants this fall through a partnership between the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the State Chapter of Ducks Unlimited. Interested individuals can apply for the available boxes via the SCDNR website (see link below). […]
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Ammo for wood ducks: the long and short of It
Veteran duck hunters Bobby Mead, Luke Mathis and Mike Jolly all shoot 12-gauge shotguns when targeting wood ducks, but the similarities end there. […]
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Wood duck box applications available
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources, in partnership with the S.C. State Chapter of Ducks Unlimited and the S.C. Department of Corrections, will continue the construction and distribution of wood duck boxes this winter. […]
Hunting
Get wood duck boxes ready
It may seem early, but wood ducks will soon be nesting again in the swamps and flooded bottomlands of the Carolinas. […]
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High-school teacher increased wood ducks
In the mid-1970s, North Carolina was home to relatively few native wood ducks. That began to change when a “shop” teacher at Western Alamance High School put his students to work building and selling wood duck boxes. […]