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Bill for Open Season on Deer Sent to Committee

Mar 25, 2007 @ 09:08 pm by Moose

As reported on here earlier a bill has been introduced to open up the season on the deer and I mean open up the season. The initial proposal would of opened the season up earlier and closed it latter and had no bag limit on deer what so ever. The outcry over this by hunters has scaled the original proposal back but it’s still ridiculous for the law makers to ignore the biologists at wildlife and take wildlife management into their own hands. The current bill that has now gone to committee would only lift the bag limit on anterless deer and extend the deer season into the month of January for an extra week for part of the state but the mountains would see their rifle season more then double.

Managing the deer herd by politicians on a statewide level is crazy seeing where there are parts of the state that the deer herd could be basically eliminated in a single season. There is no doubt that the piedmont has an over abundance and North Carolina Wildlife Commission is taking actions to help get the population under control.

1. Urban Bow Season for 5 weeks after the regular deer season closes. The catch is that the cities and towns who want to participate in that will have to submit maps & plans to North Carolina Wildlife Commission. I think as long as municipalities can hire sharpshooters and get depredation permits from the state they are unlikely to use bow hunter option.

2. Unlimited Anterless Tags in areas that have liberal anterless deer season. You’ll still be limited to 2 as a daily bag limit but this should go a long way to eliminating some deer. Of course now there are some politicians who want to tack on a fee to the additional tags.

Well I hope we leave the Wildlife Biologists in charge and I urge you to contact your local legislator and urge the same thing. Lets hope this dies in committee.