The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05

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hunts are based in Robbinsville,
Fontana Village, Tapoco, and
other places. One lodge, the Blue
Boar near RobbinSville, special
ICES in boar hunts. 1t is run by
Fred Buchanan, a natice Cincin-
NATHAN who first visited North
Carolina to hunt big game and
returned to make his home in its
ruggedest w este rn mountain
country. Rates at first class
places like this ruiz about $40
day for board and room with $40
a day guide fee.
Deer and bear hunts are con-
Quoted in Western North Caro-
lima, both in private lands and in
rational forests. This is the coun-
try of the famous Plot hounds,
the finest bear dogs, and mem
bers of the Plot family maintain
packs and hunt bear in the vi
cinity of Waynesville. Hotels and
game protectors in all counties
can supply information about
guides an d organized hunts
where available.
Popularity of the managed
hoar-bear hunts in cooperative
hunting preserves of the North
Carolina National Forests and
the State Wildlife Commission
was attested by the fact that %
hunters applied for the privilege
of forming and conducting par
ties. These included famous big
game hunters from the Great
Smokes to the Blue Ridge near
Mt. Mitchell, haunt of the
legendary Wilson bear-huntlng
family. These hunts are sched-
uled in 10 game management
areas between Oct. Is and Nov.
IS. A maximum of Is hunters is
assigned to hunt, which were
assigned at a drawing held in the
courthouse at Waynesville on
Sept. %. AS a rule, unsuccess-
full applicants join up with hunts
drawn by luck entrants.
Still hunts in the Wlldllfe
Management Areas begin Nov.
Is for two six-day periods end
ing Nov. 81. For the first time,
these are on non-reservation,
first come, first licensed basis.
Daily area permits are $3.50.
Three-day wilderness permits
are $3.50.
Frank Barick, chief of the
Wldlife Commissions G m
Division, said that quota for each
refuge has been increased, and
that everyone should be able to
get in some hunting. He does not
believe that the first day is nee
essarily the best day for hunt
ing, and has records to prove
that second and third days re-
suits exceed the seasons opener
but still the biggest congestion
is normally on the first day.
Safety factors have not been
sacrificed in increasing quotas,
Barick said, as the 70 to 80 acres
per hunter is being preserved,
but the increase was made pos
sibly by the Sizeable increase in
the number Of deer. In 1858, the
Wildlife Commission opened on
Iy one Of the Pisgah Forest areas
10 hunting at a time. This year
they are both open simultan-
eously, and the Uwharrie area, in
Montgomery County, is open for
he first time. 1t has a daily
quota of 200 hunters. |
On the 10 hunting areas are % |
heck points, where from 25 to
300 hunters may obtain daily |
permits for big game. The maxi |
mum for these points is 3,505. |
Since there are II hunting days |
n the two weeks opened for |
shooting, it is apparent that, |
weather permitting, there will be
42,060 big game still hunting |
days available on these managed |
areas. A lot Of hunting!
The areas are also opened, on
apecified dates, between Oct. l
and Jan. 81, for SQUIRREL, grouse,
rabbit, raccoon, and opossum.
Preceding the rifle and shot
gun hunting is the period of Nov.
through Nov. Is in the Bent
Creek area which is exclusively
for bow and arrow hunters. !
Quota is unlimited.
Records of kills for last season
'oint to Mt. Mitchell and Fires
reek area in the mountains, and
'are and Hyde Counties and the