Below are the guidelines we ask in submitting stories, tips and pictures. Anytime you see a hyper-linked word, a simple click will direct you to more details about that subject, should you need it.

Thank you for considering publishing one of your stories about hunting or one of your favorite hunting tips or recipes to North Carolina Hunting Today. Please read over the simple guidelines below before submitting your story. This will assist us in being able to quickly and efficiently publish your work.

As part of our "Real Stories From Real People" program, we understand that you are not a professional writer. That is okay. Most of our readers are searching for content and entertainment. Do the best job that you can in writing your story making every attempt at punctuation and grammar. Below are a few tips to assist you in your writing endeavors (click here for more help in writing a story). We will look at it and "clean it up" a bit for you. Once that is ready, follow the steps below.

Stories need to be submitted as an attachment to your email, done in Word or compatible format, please. Understand that not all email services are compatible and when text is sent via email in the services text box, the recipient often times sees a jumble of words and symbols. Pictures, which always enhance your stories and please limit them to no more than three, should be sent separately as an attachment as well. North Carolina Hunting Today staff will size them appropriately for the space available.

Submit stories to: realstories@northcarolinahuntingtoday.com

If you have questions about submitting articles that we have not covered here, contact us at: editor@northcarolinahuntingtoday.com

Tips for article submission:

Our readers are always searching for tips on how to do specific hunting tasks, such as, tracking, using scents, caring for guns, sighting in a weapon, hunting apparel. If you have any of these to share, we post tips in a separate section. Submit your hunting tips by sending them using the same format and guidelines described about to: tips@northcarolinahuntingtoday.com

Keep your story brief but filled with content that is interesting. Try to keep the sequence of events clear and in the order they happened. Follow some of the suggestions above in adding detail to your story. Readers want to know things like where you were, kind of gun or weapon you used, how you accomplished certain things that made your hunt successful, the list can go on. The key is to keep it interesting. Write to an audience of hunters you don't know.

Include dates, times and locations (without of course revealing you super-secret hunting spot).

Use names when they are relevant to the story. In other words, if you were hunting with Wade Boggs, that would be considered relevant to the story. So would your Dad or brother, but many times readers are not interested in the names of everyone in your hunting party, particularly if they are not relevant to the story.