Bobonli

I’ve been “over thinking” this according to the DEC Police. I finally made contact with someone familiar with the signs. The parking and archery signs are just that: parking spot for archery hunters only. The Restricted sign is to warn you not to hunt that field. Hunting only permitted inside the park, which I knew to begin with.

Not to be a dumbass, but why put the parking spot there if you cannot cross the field to get into the park? Is the expectation that you walk all the way down and around to Hulls Landing Rd to enter the park, because I didn't see any other path into the woods.

No ATV allowed and this wasn’t a spot you could get to on one

I was within Wildwood park according to both of my mapping apps including OnX. This is where the woods meets a field. The other side of the field is a DEC designated parking spot/ access point to the park for hunting. My initial thought was that the device held a wire. But no sign of a wire or any attempt to create a fence. There were maybe 3 of them and yes you could say they were in more or less a straight line. It doesn’t make sense to me to put a fence directly across from a designated access point.....but this is my first season so a lot of things don’t make sense!

Can someone help reconcile the seemingly contradictory signage along Sound Ave, please. I was out scouting today and checked out parking spots 2,3,4 clearly marked with DEC “Archery Hunting Only” signs and the number of the spot. Not twenty yards away, on the next closest pole, was an orange “Restricted No Hunting” sign. Both signs were in front of the same field(s). This seems contradictory! i went back into the park and asked a park employee who said he thought the “No Hunting “ signs are only out there for the summer and they are removed once the season starts. I also asked a State Park cop who said he didn’t know anything about the parking or hunting regulations. I have a DEC permit for hiking, hunting etc so the parking regulation I think I understand ( you’re allowed to park there during the archery hunting season). I don’t understand the “No Hunting” sign posted next to the Archery Hunting sign at the designated parking spot. Thanks

I was scouting out at Wildwood today in Suffolk and came across a bunch of these screwed into trees and a few buried in the dirt. They were well away from any marked trail; on the margins of a field and woods. Is this some sort of camera mount or maybe the holder for a wire fence? There was no fence in the area.

Need help: Trying to buy tags online and the offerings don't match what is listed on page 26 of the Hunting & Trapping Guide (regular season, bow either sex, antler less etc). The only thing I see on the website is Resident Hunting and DMP. Am I missing something? Are these items hidden somewhere on the DECALS website? I'm thinking I should just drive to Dicks! Thanks

I suppose this is a naive question: Do people lock them up? I just bought my first camera this afternoon and was surprised to see that there weren't any cable locks on display nearby, just various screw in and pivoting mounts. I've heard stories of people messing with the cameras. I have mine set up in the backyard tonight to get familiar with its operation....and catch the marauding raccoon that raids everyone's trash!

I treated everything, following the instructions on the bottle. I think the little bugger got up under the pant cuff. So it's gaiters for me from now on or taping the cuffs/socks. FWIW I had dead bugs including a tic elsewhere on my pants, so I think it may have gotten in there when I had my leg outstretched climbing over something at Wildwood. The truly bad consequence is that I made the mistake of mentioning when I got home...so now my kids think there are tics lurking everywhere except on the couch in front of the tv!

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I just did this over the winter. NYS has the hour requirement which includes an IN-Person class. To get to the class you either complete a workbook or that online course. The class is simply a regurgitation of the workbook or online course. As a professional educator it really pissed me off to spend time online taking the course, only to see the same content covered in-person, so I did some inquiry. It seems the folks in Albany are concerned that completing the on-line course only can provoke fraud; in other words, you might pay someone to take the course for you! So they insist on the in-person session and the written test. BTW, the in person session for my general hunting course was 8 hours. The bowhunting session was about 5 hours (although it was supposed to be eight) because the host wanted the space back so they had to end early. Most of it was story telling about someone knowing someone else who fell out of a tree stand, then giving out the answers to the test before handing out the booklet. It's not about quality or making sure people are educated. It's mindless bureaucracy.

Dave helped me at FA. Solid dude. He spent well over two hours with me picking out bows and helping me get squared away. I only wish they weren't a 3 hour round trip drive from LI

Those are my day to day clothes! I hang them outside, spray them down as directed on the bottle ( and there’s a good video on the sayers web site) and let the dry for a couple of hours. From there I handle them like my other clothes except I roll them off with a lint brush after being in the woods. the lint brush picks up any dead bugs so you don’t bring them into the car. Some people strip down at the car and toss the clothes into a bag or bin for the ride home Check the bottle for instructions but it’s definitely more than every two weeks unless you’re washing your pants everyday. Finally, the SUNY Stony Brook folks distribute tick info and removal kits. The kits say to put clothes in a hot dryer for ten minutes to kill anything that withstood the chemicals.

I’ve put Sawyers on my regular hiking clothes: Marmot pants, poly long sleeve t shirt socks etc. I wash them as usual and re- treat as per the instructions on the bottle. I think the bottle says 6 weeks or 6 washings. Doesn’t seem to bother the clothes. The stuff works. On the hike that prompted my OP, the ticks on my pant legs were DOA. But one made it under my socks some how. Next time I will wear gaiters.

This should do it..