Cedar+Canvas

That’s our basic method as well. Still hunting consistent travel corridors mixed with watches, certainly informed by the beech nuts this year. I’ve got a few high gnarly spots with fairly compelling bedding sign and major runways going in and out. I️ may just add in some time with the binoculars in the afternoon. Not a hugely different process than just sitting a watch below a shelf, but might be a nice novelty. Will share any news if anything exciting happens... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I️ was home-based at a camp in Algonquin but we took trips as far north as James Bay, east out into Quebec and west out into Superior. Spent many many days taking trips through Temagami area. Lady Evelyn, Obabika, Temagami River was a pretty common two-week trip for us. We’d also use the Montreal River up there. Classic canoe tripping. If we got the right wind on those long lakes we used to pontoon the boats together and run tent flies up as sails from the bow haha. How’d you make out up in Low’s area? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Haha yeah mis-typed on my previous post. Meant “Dec. 31.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh nice, thanks for the tip on that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, will do. Surely going to be a different experience than hunting up in the mountains but I’m excited to learn to new stuff. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve been hunting in/around a lot of pretty high cliff-y areas this season and started wondering if there’d be any value in spending more time just sitting with my binos during the course of a day. Specifically finding open areas with high ridges/cliffs and glassing up hill for deer later in the day as cool air starts coming down hill. Anyone here do much dedicated “glassing time” like spot and stalk guys do out West? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hello! Also a newbie here. I'm an Adirondack hunter and my parents are Vermonters. Where about in VT and where you looking to hunt in the Adks? Feel free to drop me a PM. Welcome!

Howdy all, just introducing myself. Found the forum a couple days ago. I'm an Adirondack Mountain hunter who was born in Syracuse, raised in Buffalo and been an NYC resident for the last decade. Spent a bunch of seasons guiding paddling trips in Canada and spent some time working in the outdoor gear industry but pretty much just recreational now. Interested in exploring bow and gun on L.I., Southern Tier, and Catskills as well as connecting with locals up in my area (WMU 5H). Also passionate about trout, canoeing, backpacking and really any adventures I can get my hands on. Stoked to learn a lot and share what I can!

Absolutely. Hard to stay safe, much less get on a nice buck, if you’re not staying on top of the details. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Maybe he got dehydrated? I️ know for me personally if I️ ever drop the ball on hydration the first thing is that I️ start feeling spaced out and all the landmarks start look a little too similar. Very easy to do with that terrain when it’s in the 30’s at 5am, 50’s at 2pm and back in the 30’s by 7pm. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Man that’s a beaut. My handle here is probably a giveaway but I’m a fan. Used to guide in wood/canvas boats up in Canada and paddled a handful of classic Chestnuts and Peterboroughs. There’s a builder near Huntsville, ON that owns some of the molds from those two companies and makes gorgeous recreations. Better-than-original type stuff. An old guiding buddy and I️ actually raced one in the Adirondack 90-Miler a few years ago, not as fast as a kevlar Bell but we got a lot of style points. That 30-30 looks right at home across the gunwales! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@Salmon_Run, man we’re neighbors, I’m also a Morehouse hunter! PM me sometime, would love to say hi. Your description of hunting the “big woods” is dead on. My dad and I️ also hunt with packs (either lumbar or internal-frame day packs) and always make sure we have what we’d need to bivouac for a night if we had to. We also use the Spot locator units, but even those are fallible. Just last week out in that area my unit malfunctioned and sent two “Help” messages to our contact list. I was totally fine, but some wives and mothers were not pleased... Valuable experience though. Made us realize that we can make as much contact we want to the outside world in an emergency, but if our contacts don’t know how to help it’s pretty useless. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for that suggestions. I’ll definitely look into the Tidal Wetlands. I’m primarily looking to bow hunt for deer out with my climber, but also putting for the gun draw to maybe still hunt a bit with my muzzleloader. I️ have family in Eastern L.I️. and would have a free place to stay out there so I’ve been looking at the East Hampton Coop maps, but I’m honestly open to anything. In my normal WMU (5H) we’re all done on Dec. 4 so any time out for deer after that is a treat for me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, I️ appreciate the help. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you ever need any tips for the Adirondacks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah that helps a lot. Thanks for taking the time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey all. I’m a life long Northern Zone hunter (central Adirondacks mostly, but all over) living in NYC and want to take advantage of proximity to some new turf and a later season. I’m curious about how scouting works on smaller public pieces, especially in-season. Up North we scout a lot in-season looking for rutting sign, but we literally never see anyone else in the woods and don’t have to worry about blowing up someone else’s hunt. Do most guys tend to have their spots scouted before the season starts? Do the assigned/limited parking spots tend to dictate how many guys are out wandering? Or you kinda just go for it and if you run into somebody just ease back out of their area? I guess the same question applies to still hunting during the gun season in L.I️. Apologies for my ignorance on this one! Appreciate the help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I️ hunt pretty remote in the southern Central Adks and have bumped into two other guys in my area in the last 10 years. They were both other guys with cabins in our area that I️ had met before. I️ will occasionally walk a portion of a trail to close some ground, but almost all is off trail and usually around 1,500k to 3k feet. We spend a lot of days without seeing much, but also have a camp full of mature buck mounts that probably never saw another human. If you’re really solid bushwhacking (sounds like you are) and have good layers there’s nothing like disappearing for a weekend of still hunting the rut in the Adks... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice snaps. 2nd on marshy vly areas. We don’t get a lot of sign in my area of 5H but when we do that’s where I️ see it. Got a young bull on cam in Sept in a vly. I️ used to see many moose guiding up in Canada usually in deep, slow, creek areas where they’d wallow and eat lily pads. I was heard there was sodium in the slimy stuff under the pads. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hunted the last 7 days in lower 5H and I concur with corydd7 that the heavy rain had them bedded, but from what I've seen the rut is on. Heavy scraping and rubbing and had close calls with two mature bucks thus far. One appeared to be tending a doe and one was out cruising. I have a feeling the temperature drop today will inspire some movement.