Im moving to Goldsboro NC later this year and I have myself a Remington 700 .204 in a nice little package. Now down in FL I didnt really have any real varmint style hunting to take advantage of. So is there anything in NC I will be able to target at distances further than 50-100 yards?

I walked a 200 yard stretch along a field, Gates County near the northern coast, and counted 17 groundhog holes along the wooded branch that paralleled the field. I've never lacked for a target in NC get a pair of binoculars and you can pretty much call the range you want.

Crows, too, some bob cat, reports of pig.

Fox are protected.


Looks like you have a lot of ground to cover down there, looks similar to my neck of the woods, lotta large fields:



Range in scale- yellow line beneath "Ruler" window is 1,318 yards, 3/4 of a mile:



Coyotes:

http://www.ncwildlife.org/Wild...files_new/coyote.pdf

I seen a champion of a fox at my Mothers house in Hudson last year...When I first spotted it I thought it was a dog, till I realized it had a huge bushy tail. Grabbed some Bino's and seen it was a huge Red Fox...I wanted to shoot it so bad so I could have it mounted. Man that guy was a huge sucker...

Looking forward to stretching the legs on my 204 and 7mm Mag this winter.

if you head due north a couple hundred miles there's lots of varmints that really need to be shot

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Originally posted by butchloc:
if you head due north a couple hundred miles there's lots of varmints that really need to be shot

231.35, to be exact

I live 20 miles south and there is not many varmints aroound here. Now you can call up some coyotes, only thing that I can think of thats legal to shoot year round. I joined a pond that has alot of turtles that shoot but not sure thats legal, it is a private pond.

i am just now getting aqaauinted with the farmers in Gates, CHowan, Perqimmons, Pasquotank counties. had to stop for a bear in the road the other day in Hyde county! Folks there tell me that there are some long range hunters" that use elevated stands to snipe groundhogs from the soybean fields at 7-800 yards!!! Must be a conflagration of the vermin there to go to the expense of building these rigs!!........................a few free bags of corn seed or soybeans ought to get me invited!!! Then I'd show then how real varminters work!! And I'f I caan get one of the bullet makers to make 110-117 grain MATCH QUALITY bullets im .257 diameter(Hornady VMAX comes to mind as well as Sierra Blitzkings) The 25-06 will truly shine!!! As well as SOUND OFFF!! Two chamberings have distinct and to some, offensive reports....................22-250 Remington and the 25-06 Remington!!!Great varminters, great all around chamberings, just plain OFFENSIVE to some!! No gun safe is domplete without at lesat one rifle chambered in these two!! 6MM REM bridges the gap!!!Enough for now!! ghd

Contact Hot Core...

he knows where there a whole bunch of elk herds down there....

he says the elk and deer hunting is great...

As I understand it, a deer can get an elk tag, and that's the truth.