North Carolina is separated into 4 parts. Each section of the state has its own specific season. Eastern North Carolina usually has the longest season which starts on October 17, 2009. Good luck and be safe! If you have some pictures of your hunt, please send them into us, we would love to do a feature post about North Carolina deer. Make sure to tell us a little about your picture! Email Picture
EASTERN NC DEER SEASON
Bow and arrow: Sept. 12 to Oct. 9
Muzzleloader: Oct. 10 to Oct. 16
Gun: Oct. 17 to Jan. 1
CENTRAL NC DEER SEASON
Bow and arrow: Sept. 12 to Nov. 6
Muzzleloader: Nov. 7 to Nov. 13
Gun: Nov. 14 to Jan. 1
NORTHWESTERN NC DEER SEASON
Bow and arrow: Sept. 12 to Nov. 13
Muzzleloader: Nov. 14 to Nov. 20
Gun: Nov. 21 to Dec. 19
WESTERN NC DEER SEASON
Bow and arrow: Sept. 7 to Oct. 3 and Oct.
12 to Nov. 21
Muzzleloader: Oct. 5 to Oct. 10
Gun: Nov. 23 to Dec. 12
Surf and Sheds travels around to many sporting events, concert venues and festivals. We enjoy playing Cornhole with all of our fans. We added our Surf and Sheds character to our boards and we have made LOT’S of sets for customers with their favorite team colors, mascots etc…
Surf and Sheds now has in stock- Camouflage Cornhole Boards for all of those Hunting Lodge, Camo loving people! If you tailgate, or enjoy passing time with your hunting buddies after a long day of hunting, or just enjoy playing Cornhole, we have your Camo Cornhole Board now available for purchase. This set comes with bags as seen in the picture. We will send you the official rules of Cornhole as well with your order. Or you may print them off from our website. Just click on the picture to go straight to the order page!
If you have any questions please contact us: Send Email Please put “Cornhole Boards” in the subject space. Or if you would like different color bags or would like to purchase your own bags, just let us know and we can place a special order for you.
Remember Christmas is coming, this makes a great gift idea for the Hunter who thought they had everything!! Do you have a Hunting Lodge – your guest would love to kick back and enjoy playing Cornhole!! Maybe you spend time at the Family Cabin, order your Camouflage Cornhole set today! We can also make a set with Pink Camo for those Lady Hunters!!
****Click here to Download PDf file of the Official Cornhole Rules: Official Cornhole Rules
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EASTERN N.C. DEER SEASON General Restrictions Registering and Reporting a Kill The hunter must register |
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By calling in the registration through the toll-free big game |
Wendy asked if I would do a guest post for her about her sons first deer he recently took thinking my post would show a little more humor then a post she might write because I write about humor. After reading the story and seeing the photos, I’m not so sure I’m the best person to write about this. I don’t hunt and have never seen anyone hoist a deer up in a tree or swing set for that matter. But I’m going to do my best.
Wendy’s son Holden got his first deer (cow horn buck) weighing 205lbs. I can only imagine how proud a Father would be at this moment. His son with his first deer and the excitement of what comes after. Aww the sweet lessons a Father will pass on to his son. Hoisting that baby up in a swing set to get it cleaned.
You can just feel the excitement and confidence on Holden’s face…This is a piece of cake.
Maybe this might be a little harder then I thought. Get the gloves and more muscle.
One slip of my foot and that girl will be air born.
Aww look at little blondie with folded arms giving instructions. She is my kind of girl. And she’s wearing pink. Luv her.
You know when you’re a kid and your parents tell you to stop laughing but that makes you laugh even harder? This is no laughing matter. Get that deer up.
And no job is complete without the help of these two little buddies.
And would you look at this…I think they finally got it. All that strength, sweat and rope burns has paid off.
Wendy had this to say about that night, “That night turned into a anatomy lesson for all the young ones sitting around watching. Questions were asked – What is that, where is the heart, do I have those parts too? Not once did we hear ewww gross. That night was a test of strength, wits, and funny moments! I thought I would bust a gut just watching them.”
Congratulations to Holden on his first deer and I can say this without a doubt, I would have been standing there with my arms folded in my pink top saying EWWW.
*** I would like to thank Jody from The Hunter’s Wife for being my guest post this week! Jody did a great job with one of our many funny family moments!
Come out and join us for the fun festivities at Adam’s Vineyard on October 3rd 2009. We will have contest, and free give aways as well as your favorite Surf and Sheds Gear! You can always place a special order as well on the day of the event. Come by and see what is happening at the Surf and Sheds Tent.
When becoming a parent you have many great moments in life that you will forever remember, and stories that will be told at the dinner table for years and pasted on for generations.
North Carolina’s bow season opened on September 12th. Following the trail cams and learning how to be patient is tough for children, many adults as well. When hunting season arrives and you head out on opening day patience seems to fly right out the window. Safety is something that should never be taken for granted even on opening day!
Teaching children about Hunting Safety must be first and foremost. Going out on your first hunting trip should NOT be about getting that first harvest. It should be about teaching your children safety. Explain to them what is happening, listen to the sounds, point out animals, birds and other wildlife you see as well as survival tips. Walk the trails, learn points of reference, scrap tress along the trail incase you get turned around. We always have our children to lead us off the trail to be sure they are familiar with their surroundings. Safety Should ALWAYS COME FIRST! 
When teaching children about Hunting Safety remember these rules:
- Treat every gun as if it is loaded.
- Point your gun in a safe direction.
- Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
- Be sure of your target and all points surrounding target.
- Notify someone where you will be hunting and how long you expect to be gone.
- Avoid hunting alone. If you go alone, hunt in familiar areas.
- Dress properly and be prepared for the every possible conditions.
- Check the weather forecast before going into the woods.
- Identify your target before shooting.
- Check all hunting equipment before and after each outing, and maintain it properly.
- Wear blaze orange to be highly visible to other hunters.
- Don’t drink alcohol or take drugs before or while handling firearms or bow and arrows.
Hunting Survival Kit
- Compass
- Pen & Paper
- String
- Flashlight and GPS
- Survival Candle
- Swiss Army Knife
- Waterproof matches
- Small First Aid Kit
- Batteries for flashlight and GPS device
- Signaling Mirror
- Rescue Whistle
***With all of the safety rules covered go out and enjoy the outdoors with your children. Teach, observe, survive! You will forever have memories to be sure to last a lifetime.
Surf and Sheds started out like many other people out there dreaming to open there own business. Economic factors almost had us delay the process, but we figured the economy can only go up from here, right?? Growing our business has been one of our greatest accomplishments. Being a small business owner you can choose to be on your own or venture out to meet other business owners that can offer a helping hand and it does not hurt if they respond well to your product!
Surf and Sheds has been well received by many companies in the outdoor fields. Companies such as Camo-Da-Dogg, Team Huntress, Camp Wild Girls and Base Camp Legends, as well as the Outdoors Blogger Summit that supports our Blog in many ways. Linking to so many other outdoor websites was one of the first things we started doing. People would contact us, just because they love our logo. Which is how we found Hook and Hunt TV. We first spoke to Jim Crowley on Twitter. He said ” I had to go back and look at your logo twice, did I just see a deer skull on a surfboard?” Shortly after connecting on Twitter we were on the phone discussing contest and how we could help one another grow our business. While we were speaking on the phone one day Jim was placing an order, that started a great friendship between the two companies. I received an email informing me to stayed tuned to Hook and Hunt TV for the next two weeks. Surf and Sheds would be featured in two different segments. Jim Crowley travels to many different places to find the best areas to cast your line, and places you would not normally here of to lay your head after a big hunt. If you have not checked out his show, please follow the links and watch his weekly show!
Please stop in and say hi to Jim at Hook and Hunt TV as his slogan says…”Give us a Shot and you’ll be Hooked”
September 12th will mark the opening season (Bow) for all of us that have been drooling at the mouth watching all of those pics coming from our friends out west who have already been enjoying there first season hunt. Like this great photo from Tom Sorenson with Base Camp Legends…and his Surf and Sheds Camo Hat….Must have been the hat that brought him luck that day!!! 
Here are a few quick facts for NC Hunting
| EASTERN DEER SEASON Bow and arrow: Sept. 12 to Oct. 9 Muzzleloader: Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 Gun: Oct. 17 to Jan. 1 |
CENTRAL DEER SEASON Bow and arrow: Sept. 12 to Nov. 6 Muzzleloader: Nov. 7 to Nov. 13 Gun: Nov. 14 to Jan. 1 |
| NORTHWESTERN DEER SEASON Bow and arrow: Sept. 12 to Nov. 13 Muzzleloader: Nov. 14 to Nov. 20 Gun: Nov. 21 to Dec. 19 |
WESTERN DEER SEASON Bow and arrow: Sept. 7 to Oct. 3 and Oct. 12 to Nov. 21 Muzzleloader: Oct. 5 to Oct. 10 Gun: Nov. 23 to Dec. 12 |
Deer Rut Season In North Carolina
Some understanding of the breeding cycle will also benefit your hunt; especially, if you are after trophy size deer. The breeding cycle for NC deer varies somewhat each year, but is reasonably constant — “The majority of the breeding activity occurs in a 3 to 4 week period in all NC regions. The peak breeding periods by region are:
- Lower Coastal Plain — last week of October
- Upper Coastal Plain — first week in November
- Piedmont and Foothills — third week in November
- Mountains — first week of December.”
How many deer are in North Carolina?
The Wildlife Commission is able to track white-tailed deer population trends using age and sex data collected from hunter-harvested deer. Population models show that approximately 1.1 million deer reside in the Tar Heel state. Approximately 620,000 deer reside in the Coastal Plain, while 420,000 deer live in the Piedmont. The population estimate for the mountain region is 60,000 animals. The Wildlife Commission’s population modeling efforts have indicated that we have stable or decreasing population trends across most of the state. These trends developed in the early- to mid-1990s when the Wildlife Commission increased opportunity to harvest doe (female) deer across much of the state. However, there are localized areas in the state where populations are increasing, mostly urban/suburban areas where hunting opportunity, our state’s primary management tool for managing deer populations, has decreased or has been lost altogether.
How common are albino and piebald deer?
Piebald deer are deer that have blotches of white coloration on portions of their hide that are usually dark in color. Albino deer are deer that lack pigmentation and have a completely white hide and pink eyes, nose and hooves. Piebald deer are much more common with some studies showing the trait may show up in one in 1,000 deer. Albinism is much rarer and may only be observed in one in 30,000 deer. There is also a very rare melanistic condition that causes a deer’s coloration to be extremely dark and sometimes black. This condition is much rarer than albinism.
Can I hunt on Sunday in North Carolina?
No. Hunting seasons are closed on Sundays, except on some military installations under the exclusive jurisdictions of the Federal government.
I have a lifetime license, but I haven’t received my big game tags yet. What should I do? Can I still hunt?
Possession of a harvested bear, deer, wild boar or wild turkey without a validated “Big Game Harvest Report Card” (formerly known as “tags”) is unlawful. Each spring our license section mails out a post card to lifetime license holders. On this post card you can request your big game harvest report card, HIP certification (federal Harvest Information Program) and/or Regulations Digest without having to go to a wildlife service agent to do so. You can also update your address if necessary. An online authorization number is provided on the post card to request these items online. If you did not receive this post card, there may be a problem with your address information in our system. Call (888) 2HUNTFISH, (888) 248-6834, M-F, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. to check the status of your information and request the items you need.
My son/daughter is under age 16 and is hunting off my license. Do I have to use my tags on their harvested animals?
No. Your son/daughter must request a free license-exempt big game report card (formerly known as “tags”) at a wildlife service agent near you or by calling 1-888-2HUNTFISH (1-888-248-6834), M-F, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
I hunt on my own property and don’t need a license. Do I have to tag my harvest?
Yes. Possession of a harvested bear, deer, wild boar or wild turkey without a validated “Big Game Harvest Report Card” (formerly known as “tags”) is unlawful. You can request a free license-exempt big game report card (formerly known as “tags”) at a wildlife service agent near you or by calling (888) 2HUNTFISH, 888-248-6834, M-F, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
For more information on North Carolina Hunting rules regulations: http://www.ncwildlife.org/Hunting/index.htm
With hunting season coming, or already arrived for some, we are working hard to get our most WANTED Surf and Sheds Logo out to everyone. Our logo has become the most requested item on our website!
If you would like to have the Surf and Sheds Logo on something we do not currently sell, let us know. We will do our best to get you what you need! Special request can be shipped within 7 days! Just send me a special request email or give us a call!
If you would like to become a wholesaler seller of Surf and Sheds merchandise please contact us! We are currently looking for Outdoor Apparel Outfitters to add Surf and Sheds merchandise to their selection.
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I got a new tree stand for Christmas. I knew exactly where I wanted to place it and rushed into the woods the day after Christmas to put it up. After getting it in the tree I climbed the stand and knew it would be perfect as far as sun, wind, etc, etc. There was just one problem. I put the stand on the edge of a 30 acre plot that was much more grown up with brush and 10-12 foot trees than I had anticipated and I couldn’t see very far. I figured no problem. I will just clear me a shooting line.
So winter turned to spring and spring to summer. In the back of my mind I kept thinking I needed to get out and clear that shooting line but, as most of my great plans go, I never got around to it. So suddenly I find myself 2 weeks before opening day of deer season and realize I hadn’t cleared that line yet. I finally headed back to into the woods with chainsaw, brush axe, and saw in hand. It’s amazing how much growth can take place in 8 months.
It took me a full week of cutting, sawing and pruning to get a shooting line cleared that any hunter would be envious of. It was finally done. 25 feet by 150 yards of wide open, deer shooting line beauty. Note – I had actually planned in my mind to go closer to 300 yards long but I didn’t have any more time. I will clear it the rest of the way this coming winter (lol). I walked the completed line, excited by the number of rubs from last year I was seeing on the trees. A few days later I put some corn piles out near the heaviest trails. (Baiting with corn on private land is legal in SC).
Opening day, Aug 15’Th. I climb my new stand, just knowing I would see more deer than I could count and hopefully would be bringing home a nice buck just like opening day last year. I check the corn piles with my binoculars and it was obvious that nothing had eaten on them. This was not good. I sat anyway for 3 hours and the only thing I saw that evening was a rabbit. As the sun was setting it became painfully obvious that I had waiting too late in the year to get my stand ready.
On the bright side, not all is lost. I happened to be able to stop by my house yesterday at lunch. I decided to walk back and see if it looked like anything had even attempted to eat on the corn over the 4 days that had passed since opening day. It was 12 noon, bright and sunny with the temperature at about 98 degrees. I figured there was no chance I would disturb anything at this time of the day. As I rounded the bend to my stand I see 3 huge does eating corn in my new line. I froze, they froze. They did the classic head bobbing and stomping trying to figure out what I was and then slowly walked off into the woods. I quietly backed down the trail being careful not to alarm them.
Now that’s what I’m talking about. I can’t wait to sit my stand again this coming weekend! The moral of this story? Don’t wait until it’s too late to get all your preparations in order for that exciting opening day of deer season!
***I would like to thank Joey Fiedler (he is from our old stomping grounds in Charleston South Carolina) or as I like to call him @bassguitar65 (Twitter name) for being my guest post for the week. I met Joey one day on Twitter thanks to my surfer/hunter chix tag-line. We have become good friends, he had a story to tell one day that just could not be told in 140 characters. I welcomed him to type it up and be a Guest Blogger for Surf and Sheds. Joey has told a great story and taught some of us a great lesson about not waiting to the last minute to get that brush cleared. Thanks Joey and come back again anytime!!
