Wilson 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
- 6
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
- 1,611
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
- 237
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 · sourcedWilson County sits squarely in the North Carolina inner Coastal Plain, a landscape shaped by tobacco agriculture, pine plantations, and blackwater swamp drainages that concentrate deer along productive transition edges. The Contentnea Creek watershed provides excellent turkey habitat and dense deer cover in the pocosins and bottomland hardwoods. Access is predominantly private, making landowner relationships and lease hunting the primary path to quality opportunities.
Flat to gently rolling coastal plain; tobacco and row-crop fields, pine plantations, Contentnea Creek and tributary blackwater swamps, pocosins and bay thickets
high -- dense agricultural land with concentrated deer draws significant private-land and lease hunting pressure with very limited public alternatives
OTC under NC statewide license; antler restrictions apply statewide; standard eastern NC archery and firearms season dates
Eastern wild turkey thrive in creek-bottom hardwoods and field edges; limited waterfowl hunting on backwater impoundments and flooded agricultural fields during migration
Contentnea Creek bottomland deer hunting during the November rut; eastern NC dove field hunting over harvested tobacco and sunflower agriculture
Questions, tips & discussion
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Boundaries: NCWRC county-based deer management units. Community info last updated 15d ago.