Buchanan Shoals, N.C. - Quail Hunt

Thanking Paul Kiker after a superb quail hunt

Driving directions from Charleston are go up I-95 three hours and then hang a left onto Highway 52. Pushing across the N.C. state line in southern Anson County, you reach the town of McFarlan. Making a right hand turn by the brick tobacco barn on Old Sneedsboro Road you will soon arrive at the gates of the Buchanan Shoals Sportsman's Preserve.

The short trip from McFarlan to the bluff overlooking the PeeDee River is the same route that the hunting lodge followed seven years ago, when the old train station was purchased and brought to Buchanan Shoals. The heart pine wood floors are 2.5-inches thick and the structure just oozes of nostaglia, not to mention the spectacular view of the hardwoods lining the PeeDee River corridor below and the fall foliage that now graces that expanse. Whether hunting quail over English Setters is the rolling Piedmont terrain, catfishing from a boat in the PeeDee River or shooting clay pigeons - there is something for every sportsman to enjoy.

To view past blog entries about quail hunting click on Shenandoah Plantation, Alabama - Barnsley Gardens, Georgia - 2015 Quail Season Finale - Airy Hall Plantation, S.C.

PhotosByJeffDennis: Baitcasters spooled up with braided line are ready to duel with PeeDee River catfish; English Setters spy a quail in the road and they lock up in the morning fog; Nothing says We Got 'Em like a pile of birds to be cleaned