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Here's the way I look at it. We can manage by "one size fits all"from the adirondacks to the capital area to the farmlands of western NY and know that we are screwing up in some of those places. Or we can make attempts to tailor management to the situations, herds, and habitats as they exist, as locally as possible, and have a far better chance of getting it right. Obviously, there is an element of practicality that has to apply, but we already have regions and WMUs layed out with unique doe harvesting boundaries, and nobody seems to have a lot of problems with that. I don't see why buck management schemes would be any different. I can only say one thing ..... I would hate to be a hunter saddled with ARs in a WMU that had their permits cut off or cut back severely. As the example I gave in my last reply, that would amount to telling hunters "Thanks for spending your cash on a license now go out there and have a nice walk. Probably no need to carry your gun. That to me is a local condition that would make AR basically mean, "no hunting". There are some situations where some of these kinds of heavy restrictions are just unreasonable.

PICT0016.AVI bigger bucks i have gotten over 2 years

The ears have to be at least 1/2" in height, and the tail has to be at least 10", LOL.

If it were me I would just check the Bow box ....since it IS a bow...lol

So the guy is from Newark. Still not sure about the tag thing.. So i'll try another 100% legit big buck. Black in white was taken in the flesh and it was shot Over the weekend. My brother had seen him many times and was hoping it would survive. He was tagged out..

I kinda sorta agree with you guys. If there was a mix of decent bucks around here I would prefer to leave it to the hunter to choose. The odds of a buck in my area making it to his 2nd birthday are pretty slim. Due to the # of hunters and the acceptance of tagging deer with wife's ,gf ,mothers,etc... tags. I have passed on every young buck that walks past me over the years on my property. Only to see them hanging on someones meat pole. Any of the 2 1/2 year or older bucks I have shot over the years have come from somewhere else. I am sure there are many areas just like this throughout the state. Obviously not everywhere though. I have a few friends living less than 15 miles away that talk about all the small bucks and 8's and 10's etc.. they see. The only difference in their hunting area ,is that they and their neighbors pass on smaller bucks. I believe AR would lead to a healthier deer herd and increased odds of seeing an older class of buck.

Smoke em if you got em ! Congratulations.

Congrats

Not sure why he's not smilin' . He's much more handsome when he shows his tooth..

I would like to see the one buck rule myself. I think ar's are rediculous, unless you do your own on your own property.

Spruced up my plane orange hunting vest while i had to go out of town for work. Took the vest along and did some re-modeling. Hopefully it brings me some luck. I need to get another bottle of dye to put some finishing touches on it.

These reports on averages across the entire state really are kind of worthless in terms of indicating what the real situations are in any particular spot that we each might be hunting. The real data that might have some relevance to each of us is the harvest comparisons within each of our own individual hunting areas. What does this statewide report really tell us. Perhaps it tells us that some areas had dismal under-harvests while others may have had huge over-harvests. The result being that the averages look just about perfect and holding steady, but actually may not be correct anywhere .... lol. That's how averages often turn out. I'll withold any booing or cheering until I see the data that reflects the town by town harvest numbers. I'm not sure how much stock I put in any of it, but at least that will be information that is geographically relevant to where I hunt and information that I can compare to my own observations.

Hazelnuts need alot of sun and great growing conditions ex..ph ballance..the deer and squirrels wiped most of mine out. i like the chestnut, were once considered a weed tree,as the grew in every hedge row. i have about 10 that have sprouted from squirrel planted nuts and at 4 years old? maybe 5 or 6 as i didnt plant them but noticed them 2 years ago produced some nuts this year, best of all they perfer acid soil so no extra soil prep! planted mine in an old pine plantation and they took off! Oaks can and do lose bud to from nuts due to a late frost besides being cyclical... most people think oak because they never saw or read up on chestnuts..in the 1800's 1 in every 4 trees was a chestnut!! oaks were only able to compete due to the loss of chestnut to blight... Maybe the passenger pigion wasn't just hunted to extinction but loss off food/ habitat..... lot of food dissapeared with the chestnut...

Dave, I think the law is one and a half ounces of scent. I assume that means each set. But by all means check the DEC site to be sure. Of course in Maine you are allowed to bait even if you're self guided. I think we need a "Hunting NY.com" bear hunt to Maine. Maybe we can get a group rate.