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You are not far from some very good bow hunting.you have to do the home work and do a lot of scouting though.I haven' t hunted the refuge in about 4 yrs but from 1970 till then I took deer every year there. The only reason I don' t hunt it now is that I hunt a private club on down the river.Thats the Uwharrie game lands,there are small particles scarted and some of the best hunting,especially with bow are on these parts.

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I found a ad in classifieds on another website.There is a club that hunts Edgecombe and Martin counties and they have six openings.Their number is(252)243-6580

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how far is that from greensboro

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I cant remember where those counties are.I would have to look at a map.

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Edgecombe is below Rocky Mount in the Tarboro area. The Tar River flows through this area and there is lots of farm land. The deer herd is something like 40 deer per sq. mile. There is both dog and stand hunting. I used to hunt there for 13 years on a private farm until it was leased to a hunt club. It was too far for me to travel, about 4.5 hours driving time. The place is loaded with deer. I once saw 34 deer one morning and finally shot one doe, I never saw a single set of antlers that morning. I did take a few worth mounting as which I did in other trips though. If I lived near enough to the area I would join a club that does not dog hunt if I was you though. There is nothing wrong with dog hunting if you like it. Four of us used to go down and hunt 4 or 5 days and would take deer in the teen numbers. We were close to Princeville and Farmville outside of Tarboro.

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smokepoledoug...I just joined a club in the area you are talking about. We are in Coakley, about 10 miles outside of Princeville.
click...I live just east of Salisbury in Granite Quarry and it takes me around 3 hrs and 15min to get to the hunt camp in Edgecombe.

There are tons of deer in that area and good numbers of turkey. If I go sit on a peanut or bean field in the evening and don' t see anything, it is VERY VERY rare. The buck to doe ratio is out of whack like everywhere else in the state, but we have introduced a two buck limit to members this year. Big bucks are not common, but they are not rare either. You just have to hunt harder to find them. Most guys are content with sitting on a field day in and day out and don' t care to chase the big boys. Just a little info about what I know in that area.

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NCBowhunter 1969
I hunted on the Ben Mayo property who owns Mayo Knitting in Tarboro. Ben grows cotton, corn, peanuts, and soybeans. The soil down there is great, but the deer don' t have time to mature and grow because of hunting pressure, UNCC Grad. You will see lots of 12" to 14" bucks and will notice a small rut as there are so many does as you have already found out. Deer are ran with dogs on some areas and still hunt only on others, depending on the land owners. I really mis going down there on a yearly trip. It is just too far with my work schedule to join a club. The land is so flat that the wind seems to blow most of the time, but it does not seem to bother the deer movement. You can sit on a cut or fire lane and see deer at all hours of the day. There are lots of thick areas in this region that deer go to during bedding times and they cross these lanes all day long.

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I hunt in both Halifax and Northampton Counties, i know what ya mean by land being hard to come by. I have let one club i' m in go but have been looking for a good QDM club for a couple of years and it' s darn near impossibile!

If anyone knows of one here in these two Counties please let me know...........