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It’s time to prepare those shooting lanes
Making sure the shooting lanes around your stand are clear of vegetation and other obstructions might result in a trophy buck you would have otherwise missed. With deer season just around the corner, July is the prime time to prepare shooting lanes and remove problem trees around stand sites. Deer will spook easily and prefer to travel within areas of the wilderness that are void of human scent or unnatural disturbance. Excessive cuttings around stand sites should be discouraged during the season to prevent big, mature deer from altering their travel patterns. Despite the sweltering heat, July is a grand time to clean up old and prepare new shooting lanes.
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Perform CPR on your food plots
Applying herbicide to food plots will eliminate competition from aggressive weeds when desired plants have taken root and are just beginning to thrive. June unravels the last few layers of spring, marked by warm, moist nights and longer days.
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Deer harvest is record in 2008-2009
North Carolina hunters killed a record 176,297 deer during the 2008-09 season. North Carolina hunters had another record-setting harvest during the 2008-09 deer season, with a total of 176,297 deer kills reported.
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State-record turkey for bow hunters taken in Stokes County
This Stokes County gobbler is the biggest ever taken in North Carolina by a hunter using archery equipment, according to officials with the N.C. Bowhunters association A Stokes County hunter has bagged what appears to be the biggest wild turkey ever taken in North Carolina using archery equipment.
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It's not too late to plant your summer food plots
May is not too late to get your summer food plots in the ground, but if you wait until June to plant warm-season greenery, it’s going serve as more of a late-summer and early-fall food source. By the first week of May, the danger of a killer frost is improbable, and any planned summer food plots should be well underway. Unfortunately, many part-time land managers/hunters do not sow the first seed until May. Preparing, planting, and maintaining food plots usually is not most hunters’ primary occupation. April also falls in the middle of the spring turkey season in North Carolina and South Carolina. Broadcasting seed throughout a freshly-tilled food plot after a spending a morning chasing a gobbler may not sit well with your local game warden during the afternoon hunt.
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Summer foot-plot mixes are key to providing deer with protein
Summer food-plot plantings provide deer with a tremendous amount of supplemental protein at a time when does are nursing fawns and bucks are growing antlers. Food plots play an important role in the overall management regime for raising and attracting quality whitetail deer.
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Shed hunting improves your trophy chances
One way to get a jump on next year’s trophy is to hunt for antlers shed by the bucks that survived last season. Shed hunting begins in earnest in March, when all bucks have finished dropping their antlers. Hunting whitetail deer throughout the Carolinas involves year-round scouting and preparation to truly have the opportunity to bag a trophy buck. Mature bucks are sneaky and mysterious, but they always leave a mark. For instance, they cannot walk without leaving evidence of imprints in the soil or being spotted traveling across highways and through fields at night during the rut. With many tools available to identify these majestic animals, collecting sheds still remains an important tactic for identifying the quality of bucks utilizing a property and their late-season hangouts.
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Use post-season to scout and prep next year’s big-buck hideouts
Post-season scouting trips can give deer hunters great insight into how that big one got away, and moving stands shortly after the season is over will help you avoid bothering big bucks closer to the opening of the season. The 2008 season was another banner year for many deer hunters, with trophy racks lined up at the taxidermist and a year’s worth of steak, sausage, and jerky chilling in the icebox. While many hunters bagged their trophies, many big bucks survived, leaving leftover tags and a bundle of cash ear-marked for the local taxidermist under the mattress for another year. An opportunity for a big buck takes food-source development and thorough scouting, pre-season and post-season. Outsmarting big bucks begins just after the close of the season, while they are still in their late-season locales. Post-season scouting is critical to locate the “big boy’s” playground, because too much disturbance during the season will disrupt the deer’s pattern, shifting them to another location.
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Dixie Deer Classic coming in March
The Dixie Deer Classic's N.C. Big Buck Contest annually draws tens of thousands of sportsmen to view the Tar Heel state's top deer. The 28th Dixie Deer Classic will feature a Quality Deer Management Youth Day Friday, March 6, and youths 12 and under will be admitted free with 13-18 youths paying half-price admission ($5).
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