Duplin County, North Carolina
Unit info
- Game species
- White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkey
- Group
- Coastal Plain
- Area
- N/A
- Public land
- N/A
Black Bear — season & harvest
- Reported harvest
- 46
Draw odds for Black Beararen't on file for this unit yet. Check your state wildlife agency website for current draw statistics.
White-tailed Deer — season & harvest
- Reported harvest
- 2,821
Draw odds for White-tailed Deeraren't on file for this unit yet. Check your state wildlife agency website for current draw statistics.
Eastern Wild Turkey — season & harvest
- Reported harvest
- 853
Draw odds for Eastern Wild Turkeyaren't on file for this unit yet. Check your state wildlife agency website for current draw statistics.
Season & harvest data is published for Black Bear, White-tailed Deer, Eastern Wild Turkey so far. Wild Turkey also occur here — that data can be added as the community contributes.
About this unit
AI-compiled · sourcedDuplin County sprawls across North Carolina's inner Coastal Plain as one of the state's premier agricultural hunting counties, with massive row-crop operations and managed timber tracts producing trophy-class white-tailed deer and outstanding wild turkey. The county's flat terrain and intensive corn, soybean, and sweet potato farming create the high-nutrition forage that allows bucks to reach their full genetic potential. Hunter access is almost entirely through private landowner arrangements or competitive leases given the near-total absence of public hunting land.
Flat inner Coastal Plain with extensive row-crop agriculture, longleaf pine plantations, pocosin edges, tributary creek bottomlands, and dense pocosins on poorly drained flats
Moderate; large private tracts allow carefully managed hunting, but lease competition is intense and prices are high for prime agricultural ground
OTC combination license required; no county antler restrictions; voluntary antler restriction programs encouraged on private managed tracts
Wild turkey exceptional - large flocks in agricultural areas, longleaf pine plantations, and creek bottoms; dove hunting outstanding on harvested grain fields; some waterfowl in flooded fields
Trophy-class whitetail opportunity fueled by rich agricultural nutrition among the best in eastern NC; outstanding spring turkey hunting over agricultural fields and powerline clearings
Questions, tips & discussion
Ask anything about Duplin County— or drop a tip or trick: access points, where game holds, glassing spots, conditions, crowding, gear that worked. This is where the unit's species-specific intel gets built, hunter by hunter.
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Boundaries: NCWRC county-based deer management units. Community info last updated 15d ago.