Hunting the Carolinas

Hunting Reports

South Carolina Area 4

Jim and Doc

Chesterfield County

Dec, 01 2009

Jim and Doc: Deer movement has been steady,not great the last 10 days. Seeing deer trickle thru feeding lanes mostly on morning hunts.Afternoon hunts are seeing few deer between 4PM and dusk. Doc bagged a nice 7 pointer 160lb at 9AM last Saturday morning using a bleat call.

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South Carolina Area 6

Lightsey Hunt Club

Hampton County

Nov, 30 2009

Ann:

Things are heating up rapidly this week. After noticing that several of my resident does had abandoned their fawns, I decided to sit my own property on Yonges Island. I re-worked some scrapes along a cutdown, got in the stand early and gave a few doe bleats, which brought in a nice 8 point at 5:20pm yesterday.

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NC-Va border

Guan Montgomery

Pulaski Co.Va

Nov, 05 2009

Muzzleloader season opened in my area of Virginia on Saturday, Oct 31 and days of anxious anticipation were greeted with early morning drizzle and then afternoon rain. I hunted the morning at my tree stand near where I live, but saw nothing. My next hunting opportunity came on Monday morning and I did see 3 does but no bucks. I went back to my stand Monday afternoon and around 5:30 saw a deer approaching from my right. When it came into a more open area, I could see that it was a pretty nice buck and was able to get a clean shot as he stepped into one of the shooting lanes about 40 yards from my stand. The shot through the lungs dropped him after about a 15 yard run. The buck was a big bodied 8 pointer with a 17 inch outside spread. My agenda now will be taking out some does to help thin the herd numbers a little.

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South Carolina Area 6

David Barefoot

Reporting from Orangeburg County area near Edisto River and Bamberg County.

Nov, 04 2009

Dave: Past weekend was awful slow...saw 3 deer on 5 hunts.Plenty of scraping activity and rut sign but no deer. Will be back this weekend and see if cooler weather gets the deer moving better.
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South Carolina Area 4 and NC

Darrell Brafford

Marlboro/Dillon SC and Richmond/Mecklenburg NC

Oct, 21 2009

Darrell : Missed one and bagged one.Hunting with bow last week,Darrel said the first doe he shot just over the back of the deer but the next afternoon bagged a nice doe. Said deer are moving late morning and at sunset in the afternoons. Seeing pre-rut scrapes and rubs.

North Carolina

Nick Makres

Reporting from Mecklenburg and Gaston county

Sep, 20 2009

Nick: Bow season is in full swing. Seeing deer on all hunts in the morning up until 10am and afternoon hunts till dark.Deer seem to very active right now.Mostly doe's and fawns are being seen moving to and from bedding areas and feeding spots.Several bucks have been seen at a distance as late as 11AM.Waiting on that right deer to get in bow range.
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North Carolina

Nana and Pewee Everett

Pitt,Martin and Edgecombe

Sep, 03 2009

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