Damn... My future DIL is from Athens.... Her and my son are in Columbia SC now....
We've been looking down around Columbia/Charlotte area for a move....
We've been looking down around Columbia/Charlotte area for a move....
Out of state hunters?
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the Lackster
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I've got a brother and sister who live in Atlanta.... Been there done that.... The wife was offered a job down there.... I told her she'd be single doing that move lol.....
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If you move to Charlotte, you'll pay mega bucks to shoot german shepard scrub bucks, hunting is very competitive there and you got to travel hours to find decent hunting. Columbia is a about 2 hours from Charlotte I think, Greenville South Carolina hunting is also awful, either an hour north to hunt or 2 hours south.
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the Lackster
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I don't have confidence hunting in any state that allows you to hunt deer with dogs. There not freaking rabbits.
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You can only hunt with dogs in Eastern NC and Southern SC, I used to do this once a month, I enjoyed it, more about the fellowship than the actual hunt to me.
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Agreed on the fellowship and I get the running and gunning part of it I'm not bashing that. Just hate it for the folks who put in work all year and then poachers run there land with dogs while they are at work. BIL had it happen just last season. Fortunately for him he burned a day to hunt and they got caught. I get the heritage part of it and I understand and it's not a big deal in areas of sc where it's miles and miles of swamp that is dang near impossible to hunt. Just tough on the folks down here when a deer they have been putting in the stand time to kill gets bumped and shot on the run.
cant disagree with the most of what you said,i could see all nr paying the same as res. for lic but at least double for tags, and limit to only one buck and doe, or if a nr wanted to kill more than two deer in the state then after two tags, they would be 4 times the reg price, dont know why anyone wants to travel that distance to just kill a deer,as far as nc goes with a little knocking on doors and getting to know people they would have a good chance to hunt good property, it,s no different than up there as far as finding somewhere to hunt, would like to see a portion of funding go to hiring and training more officers,you guys have an awesome program on wildlife up there,just needs to be more enforced,personally i have hunted for 4 years there and haven;t been checked not once or seen an officer patrolling the area i hunt, even tho i have asked for him to patrol the area once in a while so yes it would be very easy to not tag deer if a person was wired to do that, also speaks of the charicter of an indvidule, right is right and wrong is wrong, thats just the way people are, poaching is stealing, hunting without permission, same thing,
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Knocking on doors in NC? My wife taught in Benson for years, I know this area extremely well, knocking on doors does not work, Johnston county is land leasing/permission hell. I won't argue with you, but if you go to any NC forum there are tons of residents always losing hunting access and looking for new clubs, land, etc.
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the Lackster
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I think if we dicuss music and the price of eggs in China we can retitle this as an all purpose thread.
lol, you just never know where a thread will take ya lmao.... Look squirrel lol
If/when we move, I won't deer hunt down there.... If I drive my happy backside will be back in Ohio......
I'll be a reverse snowbird lol.... Head north for the winter and south for the spring/summer/fall....
Rabbit hunting may be a different story as I've already made a few connections with other rabbit hunters and they seem more open too outsiders lol.... That is if you have a good jump dog lmao.... Which I have lol
the Lackster
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Wow.... That's some serious money for rabbits...l on top of all the expense for the equipment/dogs.....
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I don't think you northern boys understand how prolific leasing is in the south. If it's huntable, it's leased. Hunting clubs that amount to basically trailer parks with hunting land are a dime a dozen. A look through the local paper will show ads for clubs ranging from $80 to $8,000 and some more than that per year. Buckle your shoes because it's starting to happen here too.
Shits so important they'll put it in your obituary.
Max enjoyed hunting and fishing and was a member of the Old Whitaker Hunting Club in Claiborne County Ms. He shared his love of hunting with his friends, children and all five of his grandchildren. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cl...x-h-watson&pid=161689693#sthash.Kc7w6rYe.dpuf
Shits so important they'll put it in your obituary.
Max enjoyed hunting and fishing and was a member of the Old Whitaker Hunting Club in Claiborne County Ms. He shared his love of hunting with his friends, children and all five of his grandchildren. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cl...x-h-watson&pid=161689693#sthash.Kc7w6rYe.dpuf
the Lackster
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We are gaining alot of "outfitters" here in ga via craigslist. It's amazing what stupid people will pay to come kill wild pigs. It's ridiculous. Down here if you got a couple hundred acres and some trail cam pics you snatched off the Internet you are an outfitter. $250 a day to hunt pigs!!!if you shot a boar another $150 for a trophy fee!!!!! another $50 for them to skin and quarter it. What the heck man take that cash go to the sell and buy you a slaughter pig have it worked up and put the other half in your pocket
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There are only a few of us that really get it, honestly I don't think clubs would be the worst thing in the world in Ohio, but we have members that talk about trying to buy bordering hunters who have 5 acres and a feeder because they might get one of their deer (thats the definition of southern hunting, buy and eliminate the competitiion). But unless you have actually lived/experience the southern hunting aristocracy type culture its hard to explain. Guys will literally lease a stone parking area just so other deer hunters can't use it to make their lives more difficult. I have seen farmers lease dove fields on a daily rate. I used to have a few serious beagle rabbit hunters drive 4 hours one way to hunt my lease property (we had 24 dogs going at once, it was a blast). Guys will literally live in single wides and spend 3/4 of their incomes on dogs, truck and hunting down there, its just a different culture.
the Lackster
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Once again. You sure your not from ga lol. My brother in law and i had a long discussion the other day about the difference in hunting culture. I had to explain to him what a drive was on the way up there.