Varmint hunting in the Great Smokey Mountains.
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# #Does any of you guys out there know how much $ for out of state hunting # licenses ? Where can I go, etc. or am I better off going to Georgia ? I would # like to hunt for rabbits, hare, coyotes, basically small game.>> # # Benny, # # You aren’t from around here are you? # # Don’t even think about hunting in the Great Smokey Mountains…it is a National # Park, and they have funny ideas about that sort of thing. Not that you wouldn’t # have any luck, I’d say that you could rack up about 300 deer in a half hour in # Cade’s Cove 
. Depends on your definition of the Smokies. I’m not from there either, but one of those buildings in that cove (or another nearby; they’ve been trying to trace it) came off my wife’s family’s land down along Newport way, where we visit often. The Cherokee National Forest, including a WMA, runs along the side of the Park, and sure looks smoky and mountainous to me, especially the views of it you get driving down the back roads from Johnson City. Nice hunting, too. As to varmints, it looks like he’s using the word as a synonym for ’small game’ rather than ‘pests’; and there are certainly squirrels and rabbits in those woods (dunno about hares) — sometimes grouse, too. Reputed to be bears and boars; I saw a bear once in a picnic ground (not in bear season), but no boar yet. One of these years … RR "Beartooth" Neuswanger, PhD, NRA-E Work is for people rrne (at) loc.gov who can’t hunt. I speak for me. Only. Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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Does any of you guys out there know how much $ for out of state hunting licenses ? Where can I go, etc. or am I better off going to Georgia ? I would like to hunt for rabbits, hare, coyotes, basically small game. Thanks Benny Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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#Does any of you guys out there know how much $ for out of state hunting licenses ? Where can I go, etc. or am I better off going to Georgia ? I would like to hunt for rabbits, hare, coyotes, basically small game.>> Benny, You aren’t from around here are you? Don’t even think about hunting in the Great Smokey Mountains…it is a National Park, and they have funny ideas about that sort of thing. Not that you wouldn’t have any luck, I’d say that you could rack up about 300 deer in a half hour in Cade’s Cove . Of the animals you mentioned, only coyote is a varmint, rabbits and hare are all classified as rabbits for the purpose of hunting, and there is a closed season, roughly from Thanksgiving until the end of Feb., unless it has changed (don’t rabbit hunt, myself). The purpose of this post isn’t to criticize you, though I’m not above having a bit of fun while trying to help I don’t have my TWRA handbook yet for this year, but TWRA has a website which should yield to a search, and they will send you a handbook. I think you should read it *very* carefully before you come a’shooting. Good luck and cheers/ Donald Carron, Preserve endangered species; collect a complete set Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
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# #Does any of you guys out there know how much $ for out of state hunting # licenses ? Where can I go, etc. or am I better off going to Georgia ? I would # like to hunt for rabbits, hare, coyotes, basically small game.>> # # Benny, # # You aren’t from around here are you? # # Don’t even think about hunting in the Great Smokey Mountains…it is a National # Park, and they have funny ideas about that sort of thing. Not that you wouldn’t # have any luck, I’d say that you could rack up about 300 deer in a half hour in # Cade’s Cove . Depends on your definition of the Smokies. I’m not from there either, but one of those buildings in that cove (or another nearby; they’ve been trying to trace it) came off my wife’s family’s land down along Newport way, where we visit often. The Cherokee National Forest, including a WMA, runs along the side of the Park, and sure looks smoky and mountainous to me, especially the views of it you get driving down the back roads from Johnson City. Nice hunting, too. As to varmints, it looks like he’s using the word as a synonym for ’small game’ rather than ‘pests’; and there are certainly squirrels and rabbits in those woods (dunno about hares) — sometimes grouse, too. Reputed to be bears and boars; I saw a bear once in a picnic ground (not in bear season), but no boar yet. One of these years … RR "Beartooth" Neuswanger, PhD, NRA-E Work is for people rrne (at) loc.gov who can’t hunt. I speak for me. Only. Visit the rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs FAQ Home Page at: http://sportsmansweb.com/hunting/ To leave the Hunting listserv list, send a message with SIGNOFF HUNTING
