Top Story - January 24, 2012

Free shooting clinic scheduled for Feb. 9
Anyone interested in shooting can benefit from attending the free Shooting Sports 101 clinic scheduled for Feb. 9 by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. A free Shooting Sports 101 clinic is scheduled for Feb. 9 at the Centennial Campus Center for Wildlife Education at the North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus in Raliegh.

“This free clinic is ideal for anyone wanting to take up sporting clay competition or hunters who want to improve their skills,” said Kelsey Obernuefemann, a wildlife education specialist with the Wildlife Commission. “While participants will not be firing live rounds, the educational and safety components of the clinic will benefit everyone who attends.”
The event is being hosted by NCWRC in partnership with the Deep River Sporting Clays and Shooting School, and will Deep...
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The annual Deer of the Year story is one of the highlights in the February issue of North Carolina Sportsman, which is now available on newsstands and as digital downloads. February issue of North Carolina Sportsman now available  - If it proved anything, the deer season that ended on Jan. 2 assured North Carolina hunters that there are big bucks out there worth pursuing. But where, and how?
Bobwhite aficionados are hoping to improve quail numbers in North Carolina by pooling resources and efforts with the N.C. Wildlife Habitat Foundation. First private quail restoration efforts begin with Jan. 24 banquet  - Proceeds from a Jan. 24 banquet to be held by the newly formed Uwharrie Conservation Society will be dedicated to bobwhite quail habitat restoration efforts. The society formerly was known as the Uwharrie Quail Unlimited chapter. The banquet will be held at Snyder’s Farm Restaurant at 6 p.m. near Randleman and will feature a 6 p.m. social hour, 7 p.m. seafood buffet, raffles, silent and regular auctions, during which attendees can bid on quail hunts, outdoor artwork, Seagrove pottery, Klaussner’s furniture, and other outdoor gear and accessories. There also will be door prizes for men, women and children.
Charlotte's Mark Silverthorne is the final winner of the 2011 North Carolina Spoertsman Bag-a-Buck Contest. Silverthorne wins final Bag-a-Buck Contest round  - When Mark Silverthorne of Charlotte saw a trail-cam photo of a huge buck back in late September, he decided to dedicate his entire season to trying to tag the trophy. “From the first picture I got of that deer, I hunted it straight through October and November,” Silverthorne said. “That was the only deer I wanted.”
Gator trout are available at night for hardy anglers who go with Old Core Sound guide Charlie Brown. Night fishing on the rocks method for giant specks  - Charles Brown, a fifth-generation Core Sound native, remembered a fishing technique from his childhood, tweaked it a little and discovered a way to allow several anglers at once to enjoy catching huge spotted seatrout during winter.

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Code Red Winter!
Anglers can defeat January’s fishing doldrums by taking on red drum around Harkers Island
Bryan Goodwin admires an over-slot redfish caught in the waters around Harkers Island last January.It was evident from the start of the cold January morning at the public ramp next to the Harkers Island Bridge that Bryan Goodwin probably was an extraordinary saltwater fishing guide.

The boat acted like a well-trained Labrador retriever, "heeling" next to the pier as Goodwin backed it down the ramp and slid it off the trailer in one motion, without assistance.

An incredulous bystander asked how he accomplished the feat. "Practice, I guess," he said. "I’ve launched boats so many times by myself I guess I learned how to do it."

An eighth-generation Harkers Island waterman, Goodwin (252-725-3961) knows something of boats and fishing. The first Goodwin to settle in the area, Thomas Goodwin, set foot on Cedar Island around 1750, and Bryan’s predecessors fished the waters of Carteret County. So he has a wealth of knowledge from which to draw, having relied on fishing,...

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