Hunting
The King of Spring
Thunder Chicken Alert = There was a thunderous gobble that filled the cool morning with song and soon after fell a hammer that released the charge sending 100’s of small pellets rapidly down range. Feathers filled the air and when the last feather softly landed on the forest floor the 19 lb gobbler was down.…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM Santee Cooper Life
Read MoreTL Harmon kills 12-point brute
TL Harmon of Summerville, SC killed a 12-point brute that’s been green-scored at 127 inches in Orangeburg County on Oct. 12, 2023. Harmon shot the buck from 100 yards away with a Winchester .243. He had spotted the deer in the flesh back on July 10 while scouting. He did not have any trail camera…
Read MoreVelvet Jean’s glazed squirrel recipe
Was a ole gal lived up around Paxville, name of Velvet Jean DuBose, we used to visit when I was a young fella. She could shoot the eyes out of a squirrel, and did so regularly. The way they tell it, DNR proposed a shortened season AND smaller creel limit on the tree rats, all…
Read MoreSantee hunter kills 622-pound gator
Brian Carroll killed a 622-pound gator while hunting on Lake Moultrie with Renegade Bowfishing on Sept. 13, 2023. The swamp lizard was 12-feet, 2-inches long. It was an exciting hunt that began as night fell, and ended before midnight. Cole Poplin and William Ard, who run Renegade Bowfishing, were prepared to stay out well into…
Read MoreLowcountry hunter kills opening day velvet buck
It’s the third opening day velvet buck she’s killed Rosalyn Ballam killed a lowcountry 8-point buck in full velvet on Aug. 15, 2023 at 6:45 p.m. It’s the third time she’s killed a velvet buck on opening day, and the fourth one she’s killed during the first week of the season. She began seeing the…
Read MoreDoubling up in Santee Cooper Country
Sydney Snelgrove was hunting with her dad, Tommy for turkeys in Orangeburg County. Sydney’s husband, Andrew was taking care of the calling duties, and up until this hunt, neither Sydney nor her dad had ever killed a turkey. They were hunting on a tract of land that Tommy has hunted for years, and it’s where…
Read MoreConnecting the Dots
Our good friend Ricky Miller connected the dots on a nice longbeard this morning, whispering sweet songs from a Stubbs Game Calls pot call. Handmade by Daryl Stubbs The negotiations were short and sweet but his deep gobbles bellowed through Santee Cooper Country as he worked his way through the swamp. Now that’s living that…
Read MoreClara Phillips kills her first buck
Clara Phillips dropped her first deer, a 9-point buck, in its tracks on Nov. 23, 2022.
Read MoreWhitney Phillips gets her Old Man
After a years-long quest, Whitney Phillips finally tagged the Old Man on Oct. 13, 2022.
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