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Old Mossy Horns
Presidents Island Wildlife Area in TN
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Birthdays are the #1 item required to produce old bucks. I don't care what method or excuse you use, birthdays are the only way to get old bucks.
I agree. I would love to see the wildlife commission take a new piece of gameland in the Piedmont and set restrictions designed to create trophy bucks. They could quadruple the price of a permit, and I would gladly pay it. There is a reason that state's like Iowa can charge $600 for an out of state hunting license. It's because their hunting is that good. I'm not saying we could ever become an Iowa, but we possibly have the potential to become a Kentucky or a Tennessee.
bux and 30/06 have this covered in terms of what NC would have to do to imitate states that produce big deer.
i think this is a fine place to hunt and wish we had some equally good restricted public hunts in NC. But i wont be holding my breath.
Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, don't allow rifles, and their shotgun season is after the rut and 2 weeks long. Excellent habitat, and genetics also play a major roll. No rifles and guns after the rut produces lots of older bucks. I don't ever see that happening in NC.
Wish it would....
Why is it that NC cannot or won't adopt some of these changes? What are opponents to this actually arguing?
I agree. I would love to see the wildlife commission take a new piece of gameland in the Piedmont and set restrictions designed to create trophy bucks. They could quadruple the price of a permit, and I would gladly pay it. There is a reason that state's like Iowa can charge $600 for an out of state hunting license. It's because their hunting is that good. I'm not saying we could ever become an Iowa, but we possibly have the potential to become a Kentucky or a Tennessee.