New North Carolina hunting rules

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Anyone can use a crossbow now in PA as well. I think its ridiculous. Thats like hunting with a gun during archery season. Its much easier to aim and shoot a crossbow than to draw and aim a real bow.

While I see your point, what's REALLY ridiculous is the law that says that you cannot use a crossbow DURING GUN season! Why not? A gun is much easier than a crossbow. My preference would be that you cannot use a crossbow during archery season (unless handicapped), but that you CAN use a crossbow during both Muzzleloader and Gun seasons.

 

[BFE]

Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow Quote:
Anyone can use a crossbow now in PA as well. I think its ridiculous. Thats like hunting with a gun during archery season. Its much easier to aim and shoot a crossbow than to draw and aim a real bow.

While I see your point, what's REALLY ridiculous is the law that says that you cannot use a crossbow DURING GUN season! Why not? A gun is much easier than a crossbow. My preference would be that you cannot use a crossbow during archery season (unless handicapped), but that you CAN use a crossbow during both Muzzleloader and Gun seasons.

All things considered we are losing hunters every year and if using a crossbow would make it easyer for some to get into or stay in our sport I see no reason to fault it for what it is. I also feel that we should not be faulting anyway of hunting as long as it's hunting and someone want's to hunt that way why not let them do as they want & you do it the way you want. We as hunters need to mind our own before barking others way of hunting, I am sure it was lobbied and talked about enough to make one go crazy listening to some of it so why now instead of during. Happy hunting to all except the anti's coming after us.

 

[Speedo66]

No Sunday Hunting: So much for the separation of church and state.

As far as crossbows, anything that would take the deer population down in southern NY would be appreciated. They're regarded as pests in most downstate counties by non hunters. Not NYC though, they don't have to deal with them, and deer=Bambi.

If most upstate residents (anything north of the Bronx border) liked deer before, after they collide with one in a car, have their spring bulb flowers eaten, have their pricey shrubs devastated, and find they're a carrier of deer ticks (lyme disease) they come to be regarded as pests. Westchester Co., the northern border with NYC is inundated with them and no gun hunting allowed in the county. Bring on the crossbows.

Getting back to the original post: I was in SC recently and all the new rules (including a salt water fishing license) are in the state guide that comes with a hunting or fishing license. Get it at any shop that sells licenses.

 

[moosehunt]

I like your thoughts, though if you're from the west, your deer population comments are hard to visualize. I drew a deer tag this year, finally after 8 years of no tag.

Separation of church and state? All we have going on between democratats and republicans in this country is church oriented--well maybeso only 90%. Can anyone show me a war/conflict going on in the world now that is NOT religion oriented? That includes the activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Regardless of all the poppicock spread in the media, they are purely religious wars! Christian vs Muslims--Muslims vs Jews--Christian vs Jews--not to mention all the conflict between factions within each--indeed that is perhaps the biggest rip! Here in the US it's mostly "I read the bible and it says"-- opposed to "oh no, that's not what it says" Where in the US Constitution (or, for that matter, the Declaration of Independance) does it mention anything about what the "bible" says? No where! No where!

Spay & neuter your kids!

 

[Water-Man]

A BIG +1 moosehunt!

 

[paintballdude902]

the new regulations digest is out at all places you can get a license

doesnt look like a whole lot has changed. most of the propesed ones didnt happen, crossbows didnt happen

 

[Speedo66]

Moosehunt says "your deer population comments are hard to visualize".

I have deer passing through my suburban property every day, I'm about 15 miles north of the NYC border. Sometimes they lay down in my backyard and sunbath, at least when they're not eating my shrubs.

You can walk to within about 20 feet of them before they start getting a little nervous. Not bounding away tail up, just start looking at you, and the tail twitches a little.

I yell at them and clap my hands loudly but they continue eating my bushes until I walk rapidly towards them. All open fields at dusk are loaded with them.

Few people hunt with bows here, NYS rules require 500 feet from houses, etc. even with a bow, no gun hunting allowed in this county. No natural enemies, excpt maybe an occasional coyote taking a small fawn. They thrive on grass and bushes. We're seriously populated with deer, dead deer all over the highways. Not as bad as some of the wild pig/boar stories I read here though.

I like to see deer when I'm hunting, not when they're local pests.

 

[JWF III]

Are there laws against anything else that are Sunday specific?

Kind of off topic, but here's an answer to the question above. In Georgia you cannot buy alcohol on Sundays. There is some type of exception to "by the drink" alcohol sales. But if you want a six-pack of your favorite brew, you better remember to buy it on Saturday.

(Of course if you know a convenience store clerk well enough, you can buy "bootlegged" alcohol on Sunday for $20 or so (a six-pack) out the back door of the store.)

Wyman

ETA-That's just another draconian law we Georgians are trying to get reversed.

 

[paintballdude902]

yeah here in nc there is no sale of alcohol between midnight and noon on sunday

there are a few laws in most states originally established because of church, though now the number of people believing in other religions or none at all is growing so they affect alot of other people for no reason

 

[moosehunt]

But you can go fishing on Sunday, just no hunting! That makes real good sense! Totally logical!

Spay & neuter your kids!

 

[paintballdude902]

hey..... not cool to say i love my attachements and use them as ofton as possible. i wanna have kids in about 10 years when i turn 30. i may spay and neuter them but while my parents are paying for school they call the shots so keep your trap closed please

dont worry my kids will be stuck in the woods ofton and reading books about Ron Paul so ill learn em right god i hope its in atleast 5 years though



hmmmmm.... fishing sounds fun for the AM the strippers are running

 

[moosehunt]

Well, opinions are like butt holes, we all have 'em, and here's mine: Wait about 50 years after you're 30 to think about having kids, then you'll have a better viewpoint and make a better decision! Each to his own!

Help same America! Spay & neuter your kids!

 

[stiab]

But why the hell have some antiquated hipocritical law preventing hunting on Sunday? Can you go fishing on Sunday?

It's not just about church, and there is a huge distinction between hunting and fishing. Sunday is currently the only day that non-hunters can use the woods for hiking, birding, nature study, etc., without fear of interrupting a hunter. If someone is fishing in a lake on Sunday, other people can still use that same lake to swim, water ski, jet ski, etc. If someone is hunting a section of woods on Sunday, there is not other use that can be made of that land.

Don't get me wrong, I'm on this forum because I'm a hunter, but to understand the issue you have to realize it is about much more than missing church, and the fishing analogy just doesn't fit.

 

[moosehunt]

Depending on the area, i.e. season length, they have about 11 months that have no hunting. Based on the average joe who gets Saturday & Sunday off, that gives those folks 2 days a week for 11 months, but 1 day a week for a month for the hunter! And a lot of joes work Monday thru Saturday, hence no hunting days! Real fair! And what of private land? I understand that there is a lot of that back east, where these laws seem to prevail.

 

[stiab]

they have about 11 months that have no hunting

Not sure where that is, but I don't want to live there!! This thread is about NC, and that is certainly not the case here, thank goodness.

 

[1/4MOA]

Well heck ill chime in for a second too . . . . . I talked to a local biologist the other day and he stated that a lot of the rules got held up in the senate for the hole giving sunday to non-hunters thing.

NOW ILL STATE MY PROBLEM WITH THAT>>>>>

My hunting club leases about 8500 acres in Sampson and Pender Co. Non-hunters are not allowed on the property. We will have you charged with tresspassing. Its private land. With that being said why shouldn't you be able to hunt on private land on sundays if i control who goes on that land????? Bureaucratic B.S. Anyway, i could rant on for days about this crap.