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
Sign in to contributeDuplin 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
Primarily private agricultural and timber land; minimal public hunting acreage; some NCWRC walk-in access through easement agreements
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 106d ago.