I did in fact tell Gary about a few you used to have walking around NC though
I hear ya Scott. Whitetail Freaks is HOUNDING me about wanting to come here and shoot a season's footage.
The difference between me and a lot of hunters (it seems) is I just don't care enough about shooting "big bucks" to travel to do so. I'll take the best of what my woods has to offer and be fine with that.
The ONLY things standing between me and a NORTH CAROLINA P&Y buck is likely 2 seasons, countless road hours going 4 hours one-way....and about $2,500.
Yeah....I said it.
I JUST got back from getting a haircut. My barber's an avid deer hunter....so (him knowing me) I posed this question to him.....
What would it take for me to kill a P&Y qualifying buck in NC. Open ended.....just like that. He cited the above criteria.....knowing how much time I have to devote to it.
As hard as it is for some to believe......it's just not that important, to me. I LIKE my location!
People who don't (or don't like their chances at the caliber deer they're after).....travel hours to hunt.....even cross state lines.
I don't set, as a barometer of my hunting prowess.....the number of inches of antler the deer I kill have. If I did.....I'd pony up and pay the piper....and the gas man.
No interest. None, at all.