Bear hunting in western NC is defiantly-- as they say on the internet when they can't spell or they use predictive-text--NOT for old men.
Hell, coastal bears in the Carolinas are no pic-in-ic, either, unless you're banging away over peanuts or hurricane hogs at hundreds of yards and have plenty of help. Now THAT can be a party ...
But I'm not working for the Carolinas Chamber of Commerce, so I don't encourage anyone from far to come hunt deer, turkeys or bear here unless they're willing to have their asses handed to them and go home skunked ... because it's not like home.
This goes double if they have the option to hunt some of them fancy animals in the Pacific Northwest, or Canadia.
BTW, antelope out of a blind or with a crossbow would be a snoozefest, but spot-and-stalk with a vertical bow is big-boy fun.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.