NC4X4 Hunting and Fishing

Exhibit a - big black tail less trash panda right now
 

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Couldn't get bear to leave so buddy drove up as close to stand to scare him off... it worked and I also heard deer going everywhere. This is said deer. And apparently the coyotes were close to
 

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If anyone finds any deer sheds and doesn't want to keep them, I'd be happy to take them off your hands in exchange for $ or beer...gotta build up my inventory to keep the pup happy!
Or after the season is over if you want us to go shed hunting, I'm sure she wouldn't mind!
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Work took the "new guys" on a float trip down the Watauga. Our boat caught 47 fish but the other boat caught the big ones. I was on the boat with one of the VPs there was alot of shit talking going on between me and him and the guide.
 

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I decided this weekend to strike off and do a hunt I've talked about doing for a while. Wanted to pack in and camp but time didn't allow for it. Started hiking at 5:30 gained 1800 ft in three miles and made it to the AT by 7am. I was greated by a wall of fog and wind blowing so hard you couldn't stand. I worked a little over a mile and found a place the fog was "less" and starting looking. Found 3 deer that ended up squirting outta the little wood line right below me. And watched where they went. Then I backed up and made a big loop around the mountain and got the wind in my face. Sat down and started looking again. Found them at 375 yards working into the woods. The hunt was on. I dropped down and cut 200 yards off fast as I was out of line of sight. Then I found a trail that was well worn and going in the direction they were going. I slowed to a crawl and inched forward making hardly any noise. The wind was still up so that helped. I crept like this for 2 hours. Checking my GPS, the trail was turning down hill and I didn't want to follow it. So I decided to bush wack back to a trail (that didn't exist I found out). Two steps in and I bust Two deer out of their beds at 20 yards. The grass was waist high so I couldn't see them. Instead of back tracking I thought I'd just go up hill and hit the ridge. 600 vertical feet and a quarter mile I made it up. Spend a could hours watching some other balds. Then headed down the mountain. Ran into the game warden and had a nice talk. 1/2 mile from the truck I walked up on a bear and was about 25 yards away when he smelt me and took off. All total I walked 9.2 miles and highest point was 5680 and I started at 3600.

Hardest/ funnest day of hunting I've had in NC ever
 

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Loganwayne said:
I decided this weekend to strike off and do a hunt I've talked about doing for a while. Wanted to pack in and camp but time didn't allow for it. Started hiking at 5:30 gained 1800 ft in three miles and made it to the AT by 7am. I was greated by a wall of fog and wind blowing so hard you couldn't stand. I worked a little over a mile and found a place the fog was "less" and starting looking. Found 3 deer that ended up squirting outta the little wood line right below me. And watched where they went. Then I backed up and made a big loop around the mountain and got the wind in my face. Sat down and started looking again. Found them at 375 yards working into the woods. The hunt was on. I dropped down and cut 200 yards off fast as I was out of line of sight. Then I found a trail that was well worn and going in the direction they were going. I slowed to a crawl and inched forward making hardly any noise. The wind was still up so that helped. I crept like this for 2 hours. Checking my GPS, the trail was turning down hill and I didn't want to follow it. So I decided to bush wack back to a trail (that didn't exist I found out). Two steps in and I bust Two deer out of their beds at 20 yards. The grass was waist high so I couldn't see them. Instead of back tracking I thought I'd just go up hill and hit the ridge. 600 vertical feet and a quarter mile I made it up. Spend a could hours watching some other balds. Then headed down the mountain. Ran into the game warden and had a nice talk. 1/2 mile from the truck I walked up on a bear and was about 25 yards away when he smelt me and took off. All total I walked 9.2 miles and highest point was 5680 and I started at 3600.

Hardest/ funnest day of hunting I've had in NC ever
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I'll be damned if I'd do that hunt for a whitetail but it sounds fun when I imagine it was for elk!
 
awheelterd said:
I'll be damned if I'd do that hunt for a whitetail but it sounds fun when I imagine it was for elk!
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The guys I hunt with have done it twice during bow season and I couldn't make it. Now I'm wanting to plan a 4-5 day trip up there and go from one trail head to another about 10 miles down the AT during muzzleloader next year. Oh there is pigs up there to.


Closest you can get to hunting out west in nc. It was brutal hiking at times and I was like why the hell did I do this. Then I got home and was thinking I could go do that again next weekend.
 
All these posts and tik toks got me wanting to bow hunt again. Havent bow hunted in several years. Pulled out my old browning and the first shot was dead on at 15. Hmmmmmm....... Maybe I still have it. New hunting spot is mostly 30 yard shots. Gotta get a new target but Im going to try and bow hunt either late this season or next year.
 
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Got some asshole on my camera today. Oh wait...that's me. Lol
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My dad has 3 stands near the Deep River. Last year I went down there to cut down the brush weeds and fill his three 3 corn feeders before the season. He had 3 cameras too. I hung my hat on the cameras will I worked. When I left them I put my hat back on and walked in front them and dropped trout and mooned the cameras. He called me a few days later and laughed and laughed.
 
Opening day of rifle season here. I haven't been unable to sleep like this on an opening day eve since I was a kid. Not sure what's got me so excited this year unless it's the fact that I've actually done a little preparation for a change ha. Good luck to everyone else hitting the deer woods today!
 
Since I was at the beach ....
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Good times on Kure Beach Pier.
 
Got him skinned out and loaded up with 20 mule team. We'll see how he turns out. It's supposedly not their breeding season right now, but this one had a big ol set on him and my neighbor who hunts across from where I found him has never seen a fox squirrel in those woods. I wonder what got him over here if it wasn't lust?

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