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Tactics For Hunting Carolina’s Mountain Bucks
It takes a different mindset to get back in the mountains to do your deer hunting. But with patience and the right tactics, it can pay off.

It’s every deer hunter’s dream — to have a big, mature, wide-racked buck all to yourself. Somewhere down deep, most of us secretly yearn to be turned loose on the trail of a once-in-a-lifetime, record-book buck in a remote patch of deer woods where no one else is likely to come along and interfere or snatch your prize.

Well, the remote mountains of South Carolina may be just the place where your dreams can come true. But for those unfamiliar with the rugged terrain, hunting deer in the mountains can be a frustrating experience.

The biggest problem that hunters face when hunting in the mountains is trying to sort out the various features of the terrain. If you were able to fly over the Carolina mountains in a small plane, the first thing you would notice is that they just seem to go on and on, forming a vast wilderness. The northwestern corner of the Palmetto State is a seemingly endless sea of peaks, ridges and hollows running in all directions, steep slopes and little pockets of relatively flat floodplain.
By Dennis Chastain