courtgreene
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I'm in central NC and most of my hunting is in western NC. First, the deer are plenty big, and I don't know what kind of greyhounds you have been around but Ive had a few and they are much smaller than our deer. Granted, they aren't monsters, but they aren't dogs either. Second and more importantly, it's not the guns that need to change to control the population, it's the ridiculous seasons. In the east the seasons aren't bad but in the west they push back gun season so far that we miss the beginning stages of the rut. I bow hunt, but by the time rut comes in there are so many asses poaching (probably with .22's in fact) that the pressure makes getting bow shots nearly impossible. Make gun season earlier and you solve all of those problems for law abiding hunters. Last year i called the state and begged them to help keep me a lawful hunter by addressing the western season problem... they said that starting this year the seasons would be more like the east. Cleveland county won't have those silly interrupted seasons between ML and Gun, and all of them would start earlier. We will see what they actually do later this month when the new regs come out.