RE: Spot lighting
I don’t know where you are at NC, but I used to hunt some in Gates County. Spotlighting is legal there, as long as there are no weapons in the truck. We enjoyed going out to get a better feel for the quality and quantity of the deer herd in the area. Also, I have we would see lots of things that you would never see in the daytime. I saw two very nice mature bucks fight for like 15 minutes in the middle of a field one night, I never realized how intense those fights could get until that night. We also saw a nice piebald buck one night. As for you statement, I have never heard anything like that. I know a guy who spotlights out his backdoor into his horse pasture all the time (he just likes to see them) and it has never effected the time at which the deer start coming out.