Actually...it hasn't.

If you'll read my previous replies....I also noted the D&DH study that says these mature animals don't travel great distances. You'll also see that I said if you didn't have access to their home ranges/core areas.....you were SOL.

In the case of my hunting area (and moreso the areas I DON'T have access to).....my outlook is consistent. IF they're in the areas I have access to.....I think I'd see them OR get photographic evidence of their existence. I stand by that.

I think it'sa cop out to tell a man there are slammers in his woods (that he hunts).....he just isn't doing the things necessary to see/hunt them. I just think he might not have access to the areas where they are.

Are there slammers in NC? Sure ("slammer" being "relative"). Are they in the woods I hunt?

Good question. But you can't, with a straight face, say that they ARE "there". You just can't.