It’s time to prepare those shooting lanes
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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It's not too late to plant your summer food plots
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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Shed hunting improves your trophy chances
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
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 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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