Chatham Co question

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in 1975 it was made illegal in Chatham County to hunt deer with a centrefire rifle.

Does anyone know when the taking of deer with centerfire rifles was legalized again?
 
ScottyB

ScottyB

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I have been here since 1993...... always been legai...... so between 75 and 93
 

treein dixie

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Very few deer in Chatham in 75 most were around chicken bridge rd. People were using rifles in 79 so not to long between 75-79
 
rodman

rodman

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People get bored on rainy days. Never stopped using them in Bennett. Or dogs,or hand grenades...
 

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nccatfisher said:
Sometime after `75.
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i will say i think it was early eighties. It was bizzare in that alamance was allowing rifles and the silk hope crowd was having to lie about not using them. :)

it changed right about the time the entire county started having a season.
 

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oldest school said:
i will say i think it was early eighties. It was bizzare in that alamance was allowing rifles and the silk hope crowd was having to lie about not using them. :)

it changed right about the time the entire county started having a season.
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Thanks Oldest School
 

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auburnpack said:
I started hunting around 88 and I don't remember hunting w a rifle being an issue. Interesting topic.
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you can be sure of that.

i know it was early eighties when it was changed. i worked with a guy who told me of carrying both weapons to his stand. that was past 1980.
i am gonna say 81, 82, the kill rate doubled both of those years.

today there are more killed on the opener of ML than in a whole year back then. :)
 

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ScottyB said:
So, who has seen these BEASTS this law speaks of??????
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Scotty there were in fact some beasts roaming chatham as the herd expanded into the county. beasts of deer that is. not sure about a beast species.

there were some CH hippies during that time that could have passed for sasquatch around as well. :) they roamed chatham at will. this law protected them. LOL.
 
Winnie 70

Winnie 70

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I hunted Harnett Co. in 1979 and could use rifle then. Belonged to a hunting club one mile from the Harnett/Chatham Co. line. I believe you could use rifles in Chatham then, because we had rights to hunt a track of Federal Timber land in Chatham Co.and it bordered the Harnett/Chatham Co. line and we used rifles in both counties.
 
ScottyB

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oldest school said:
Scotty there were in fact some beasts roaming chatham as the herd expanded into the county. beasts of deer that is. not sure about a beast species.

there were some CH hippies during that time that could have passed for sasquatch around as well. :) they roamed chatham at will. this law protected them. LOL.
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Still got plenty of the Sasquatch Hippies wearing plaid shirts up this way and quickly running into your neck of the woods.....sooner or later the state has to declare them a nuisance species and open the season up.....Just how many hairy underarmed women and men claiming to be ORGANIC FARMERS does one county need?
 

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ScottyB said:
Still got plenty of the Sasquatch Hippies wearing plaid shirts up this way and quickly running into your neck of the woods.....sooner or later the state has to declare them a nuisance species and open the season up.....Just how many hairy underarmed women and men claiming to be ORGANIC FARMERS does one county need?
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you have been here long enough to understand they now run the county?
 
Aaron H

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I'm thinking it was 1982. Seems like it went shotguns only, then shotguns and rifles if you had written permission to use the rifle, then it all opened up. I know some were hunting with rifles before that time.
 
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Aaron H said:
I'm thinking it was 1982. Seems like it went shotguns only, then shotguns and rifles if you had written permission to use the rifle, then it all opened up. I know some were hunting with rifles before that time.
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i agree. folks were using them but it was not legal.
 
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