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Create a channel Learn moreFor us, general season on public land (rifle hunt) in our northern zone starts the first Saturday of November and goes to the first Sunday in January.This years hopeful, modern gun starts October 12th here. View attachment 8515657
We get an early season start, but it’s still fairly warm when it all kicks off. Never really cools off here in eastern NC though. Our bag limit is 6, 2 antlered and 4 “anterless”. We got a surplus, last year’s estimated population was a hair over 1 million. I’ll usually watch at least 100 walk past me in any given season, don’t shoot many at all, some years none.For us, general season on public land (rifle hunt) in our northern zone starts the first Saturday of November and goes to the first Sunday in January.
With some exceptions. The public land I hunt has 2 main sections. Each section has a number compartments, as it were. Anyway, the north section allows rifles of .243 W and larger.
The southern section, No farther from a town than the northern section, has slightly smaller compartments. Anyway, the southern section now has weapons restriction. You can only hunt there with archery (including crossbow,) shotgun (slug or shot,) and muzzleloader. These properties are managed by the USFS (US Forestry Service.) I have the guy's number saved because I always have questions. And you have to enter TPWD drawing to win a permit to hunt doe (anterless is how they describe it) on the WMA. Until this year, that permit was good for both north and south. Now, it is only good for one. So, I chose the north. You don't always win. Otherwise, the bag limit is one buck, either legal spread of 13 inches or a spike.
And we get archery season in Sept 28 through Nov 1 this year. So, basically, deer season has started. However, during actual archery only season, there are 4 counties in north Texas that do not allow crossbow unless you have a doctor's note. I think the only reason for that is herd conservation. It's a stupid rule that stops overharvesting, I guess.We get an early season start, but it’s still fairly warm when it all kicks off. Never really cools off here in eastern NC though. Our bag limit is 6, 2 antlered and 4 “anterless”. We got a surplus, last year’s estimated population was a hair over 1 million. I’ll usually watch at least 100 walk past me in any given season, don’t shoot many at all, some years none.
A friend of mine who has passed on had a lifetime hunting license in Oklahoma and always harvested does for meat. Just the old does who could not get enough interest to produce a fawn. He hunted his aunt's 20 acres at Lake Murray and then drove the harvest to his dad's place in Kingston where they had a shed for aging, processing, etcetera.I have 112 acres in Okrahoma. It seems that everyone here will shoot every buck that they see, no matter how big. It's not a good deal, the bucks never gain any real size and there are LOTS of does. Last year, one week before rifle season, I went to sit in my shooting shack and watch. Over a period of about 3 hours, I counted 36 does and 1 real small antlered buck. I can take 5 or 6 (have to double check the regs) deer, as can my wife, my brother, his wife...I have already told them all, NO BUCKS. We are going to thin out some does. I see 15-20 deer every single day.
280 Ackley Improved, 140 Berger VLD @ 3250 fps, 175 yards. Both taken about 15 minutes apart.
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I have a few bucks and lots of does this year, my herd is on the rebound from an aggressive hunter that lived a few properties over but has moved.It seems that everyone here will shoot every buck that they see, no matter how big. It's not a good deal, the bucks never gain any real size and there are LOTS of does.
Man they grow them big in your location. Very nice.This is this years sheds, we have the year prior sheds and the buck is still out to be taken for this year! I’ve heard (from our local taxidermist) cabelas could offer up to $50,000 for the matching trio View attachment 8515853