NC hunting question

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jbordy

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Hey NC hunters.
I posted this on another site mistakenly /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif and got an answer to my first question. Anyone want to sound in?
I have relocated to High Point, NC from PA and am finding it a little difficult and also frustrating to find any place to hunt coyotes other than on leased property. I still have my home in PA and can walk out my front door and start calling. Now I need to be on a lease??? (sounds a little canine to me!!) And I have a question about the state game lands. Can I hunt coyotes on a game lands when there is not other animals in season ? Do I need a "game lands Permit" to hunt on a game lands? Is it legal to hunt coyotes in the Uwharrie National Forest at any time of the year or does this national forest fall under the rules of a "game lands"?
I am here for about 3 years so I also have a local email address: kbordick@triad.rr.com
Any personal or PM help will be greatly appreciated .
 
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Can I hunt coyotes on a game lands when there is not other animals in season


No, there has to be some game animal or bird season open. Then you are limited for weapons to the weapons allowed for the open season. During deer or bear seasons, you can use most any weapon. But after, or before, those two seasons when only a small game season is open, then it's .22 rimfire or smaller or shotguns with no larger than #4 shot, but if you use nontoxic shot-then any size is allowed.
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Do I need a "game lands Permit" to hunt on a game lands?


Yes, a NC state hunting license and a Gamelands permit for coyotes.
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Is it legal to hunt coyotes in the Uwharrie National Forest at any time of the year or does this national forest fall under the rules of a "game lands"?


Most all National Forests are in the Gamelands program plus a lot of privately held lands.

For more NC info please visit our website www.northcarolinapha.com
 
I now have some conflicting information from another section of this site. I was told that I did not need a game lands permit. If I do, where would I get one? I went to the NCPHA site and registered. I will seek answers there as well. Thanks for your input Blackhawk
 
jbordy. i told you that i dident think u had to have a gamelands permit. because i have never heard of that. and i get checked by the law atleast 5 times a year and have never been asked for it. i dont even know what a gamelands permit is. i figured it was somethin to do with duck hunting. so you better check in on that. just be sure you have your tags and your license! sory about that!
 
You do need a gameland permit if you have a regular hunting license and don't buy a sportsman license. With the Sportsman you are covered with just about everything but the federal duck stamp if you hunt waterfowl.
 
That's right jbordy. If you buy the Sportsman license, it includes your NC state hunting & fishing licenses, big game permit(tags), and Gamelands permit. If you just bought the NC hunting license, you can go back and also get the Glands permit, at any license dealer. You will have to have the Glands if you hunt on Glands. However, Glands will close for all hunting the end of Feb.
 
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thanks to all of you. I am checking, talking and listening some more. I think I am ready to buy the license but as I said in a different forum I am buying a nonresident license because I am not a resident of NC and because of other complications will probably not become one. But I will be living here for about 3 years. So an annual license, with a game lands permit and away I go.
 
I am going out tomorrow for the first time. I needed the nonresident annual basic license. This did not include a game lands permit. I needed a game lands permit. After doing some other checking I think I am ready to go. Let you all know tomorrow how I did.
 
I got my license and after further inspection I noticed that the legal part of the license was printed on the white paper and not the green /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif. I hunted, saw nothing except sign, and then took my license back to the issuing agent. What a to-do. I have to wait until tomorrow to get it back /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif. Maybe back into the game lands next Monday. If the temperature is warm, say in the 60's, do I need to worry about chiggers, snakes, ghosts?, gobblins? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif aliens? in the NC woods? Part of that was actually a serious question /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
 
Probably none of the above, only one even remotely possibly might be the snake one, but probably won't get that warm. However I know a guy who dug up a large black snake Tues. with a trackhoe, but it was buried probably 6 or 8 ft deep and was 10 deg outside. Just enjoy the hunt!!!! What are ya shooting with? Shotgun?
 
I am constantly amazed by the quagmire of hoops and loops some states make you jump through to hunt there. Ya nearly need a law degree to decipher some of the non-sensible rules in some places. Can’t fathom the reasoning…
 
I got my official, correct license back today /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif. I take my 12ga for a walk with me when I coyote hunt most of the time. In PA, where I hunt the mountains, I sometimes take my 223 but the shotgun seems to be the right play toy. Dead Coyote loads. Thanks blackhawk for the info on critters. I don't usually hunt coyotes in 60degrees in PA. And GC I am amazed at all of the rules/regulations/whatever necessary to procure a slip of paper to hunt /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. And the cost is starting to become overwhelming to say the least.
 
No doubt. I just printed out the NC state's regulations booklet off of the net and it was about twice the size of Ohio's. That is one thing I liked about Ohio, they keep it relatively simple and uniform across the state. It seems that hunting in NC on private land and even game lands is going to be tougher than I originally expected.
Jmich
 
In South Carolina they just took rules for night hunting coons and applied it to coyotes. You can hunt coyotes at night, but can't use a light unless they are treed or cornered. How many of you have ever treed or cornered a coyote at night? The firearm rules also applies, nothing bigger than a .22 rimfire or #4 birdshot. Why would you have a rule for firearms where the weapons aren't even considered adequate for the animal you are hunting?
 


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