Species
Know your quarry.
The Piedmont holds a deep bench of game. You can't hunt what you don't understand — so each track starts at the animal's biology and behavior, then builds toward tactics, the shot, and the table. Every species below is a complete, sequenced learning track.
- Big game · 90 lessons
Whitetail Deer
A complete, sequenced path for hunting whitetail deer in the Piedmont's hardwood hills — biology and sign through the shot, recovery, and managing land and herd.
- Big game · 55 lessons
Eastern Wild Turkey
Spring-gobbler woodsmanship for the Piedmont — roosting, calling, setups, and the patience to close the distance on a wary tom.
- Predator · 55 lessons
Coyote
Predator hunting and management — calling, night and stand tactics, and the year-round craft of hunting an intelligent, pressured predator.
- Small game · 41 lessons
Squirrel
The perfect entry hunt — accessible, abundant small game that sharpens marksmanship, woodsmanship, and field-to-table skills.
- Small game · 35 lessons
Rabbit
Run the brushy edges of the Piedmont — cottontails behind beagles or jumped on foot, the friendliest small game upstate.
- Big game · invasive · 35 lessons
Feral Hog
Hunt and trap an invasive pig in the Piedmont — sparse upstate, tough-skulled, and governed by SC's night-hog law.
- Furbearer · 36 lessons
Raccoon
Run hounds under a Piedmont moon — biology, the tree, the night-safety carve-out, and pelt to table.
- Small game · varmint · 18 lessons
Groundhog
The Piedmont's open-field rodent and the perfect classroom for varmint-rifle marksmanship — biology, burrows, and bullets that fly flat.
- Predators & trapping · 37 lessons
Predators & Trapping
The fox, bobcat, and beaver beyond the coyote line, plus the old craft of the trapline, done legal and clean in the SC Piedmont.
New to all of this?
Don't pick a species and wander off — start at the trailhead. The Hunting Primer teaches the law, safety, and woodsmanship every species track builds on, then each animal track takes it from there.
Photo credits
- Whitetail Deer — ShenandoahNPS, Public domain , via Wikimedia Commons .
- Eastern Wild Turkey — Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .
- Coyote — Christopher Bruno, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .
- Squirrel — Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .
- Rabbit — Paul Danese, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .
- Feral Hog — Brisbane City Council, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .
- Raccoon — Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.5 , via Wikimedia Commons .
- Groundhog — Cephas, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .
- Predators & Trapping — ClaudiaTen, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .