letchworth

[alwaysarchery67]

How is the deer population?

[Red]

The population is really good there's a ton of deer there and plenty good spots to hunt in the park

[Four Season Whitetail's]

Yup, Went down Sunday and moved a few stands around on the river.  I was shocked to see the amount of sign down on the river bank this early. Im a firm believer that many mature deer call the bottom home all year long. Its like its built into them...Up by night and Down by day. Reguardless of hunting pressure!

[Red]

I agree I bet plenty of deer live down in the bottom all year round. I would love to have a trail cam down in the bottom of one of the secluded spots I could only imagine the size of some of those bucks that are never really seen.

[TheTruth2]

Letchworth is great during bow season, awful after opening weekend of gun. I saw more mature bucks last year than any prior year and I'm expecting it to be even better this year

[Doc]

Letchworth is great during bow season, awful after opening weekend of gun. I saw more mature bucks last year than any prior year and I'm expecting it to be even better this year

So what happens when the guns start to go off? Do they drive the deer right out of the park? It might be useful to find out where their favorite escape routes are...... somehow.

[genesee_mohican]

Lots of deer, the older bucks seem to be very more nocturnal come deer season. The bottom is nice to hunt if you have the legs, but the problem i find is there seems to be a tree stand every 200 yards down there.

 

[Four Season Whitetail's]

So what happens when the guns start to go off? Do they drive the deer right out of the park? It might be useful to find out where their favorite escape routes are...... somehow.

 

Grab yourself 300ft of rope and start climbing down. I will show ya where they are!  Just make sure you make yourself a buddy to drag for you though. Take a hand cart, mount a winch with at least 500ft of cable on it, Lay a couple marine batteries on the handcart to charge the winch. When you kill that buck down there you take the cart to the edge of the gorge, Rachet strap the cart to a tree and throw the hook down to your buddy on the bottom. He hooks the buck to the sleds( That stay down there all year) and start the winch. Up he comes!  Notice...I say buck and he?  If someone shoots a doe or a buck they dont plan on mounting down there when they are hunting with me....There on their own!!!

 

Note...I have never seen another tree stand where i hunt on the bottom!

[genesee_mohican]

Grab yourself 300ft of rope and start climbing down...I have never seen another tree stand where i hunt on the bottom!

 

Lol, no wonder you don't see other stands down there. Sounds like you have to take a repelling class. 

[growalot]

Now you do need to apply for  access to the park hunting ahead of time right??

[genesee_mohican]

You need to apply for the Regular Gun season.

 

For archery you only need to print out the appication, fill it out and carry it with you.

 

 

[TheTruth2]

Grab yourself 300ft of rope and start climbing down. I will show ya where they are! Just make sure you make yourself a buddy to drag for you though. Take a hand cart, mount a winch with at least 500ft of cable on it, Lay a couple marine batteries on the handcart to charge the winch. When you kill that buck down there you take the cart to the edge of the gorge, Rachet strap the cart to a tree and throw the hook down to your buddy on the bottom. He hooks the buck to the sleds( That stay down there all year) and start the winch. Up he comes! Notice...I say buck and he? If someone shoots a doe or a buck they dont plan on mounting down there when they are hunting with me....There on their own!!!

Note...I have never seen another tree stand where i hunt on the bottom!

Lol feel free to show me where they are! I do mist of my hunting off dygert Rd on the east side

[steve863]

Grab yourself 300ft of rope and start climbing down. I will show ya where they are!  Just make sure you make yourself a buddy to drag for you though. Take a hand cart, mount a winch with at least 500ft of cable on it, Lay a couple marine batteries on the handcart to charge the winch. When you kill that buck down there you take the cart to the edge of the gorge, Rachet strap the cart to a tree and throw the hook down to your buddy on the bottom. He hooks the buck to the sleds( That stay down there all year) and start the winch. Up he comes!  Notice...I say buck and he?  If someone shoots a doe or a buck they dont plan on mounting down there when they are hunting with me....There on their own!!!

 

Note...I have never seen another tree stand where i hunt on the bottom!

 

 

I tell you what, you can go ahead and knock yourself out with that type of hunting, you aren't making many of us envious no matter what kind of bucks you find down there.  The rest of us will wait until we die to be repelled down into hell.  Will be way less strenuous then.   LOL

Edited September 27, 2013 by steve863

[Four Season Whitetail's]

I tell you what, you can go ahead and knock yourself out with that type of hunting, you aren't making many of us envious no matter what kind of bucks you find down there.  The rest of us will wait until we die to be repelled down into hell.  Will be way less strenuous then.   LOL

 

Well Steve i hate to say it but i hope you and most every other hunter continues to feel that very same way. If you ask...Or look at our walls..of the little group of us that do this year in and year out, you will hear the same answer. I dont need envy or company....I need bone.   Just a fact for me and i would in no way be afraid or ashamed to admit it. 

[steve863]

 I dont need envy or company....I need bone.   

 

 

Yeah, that's how the bone collectors usually think.  But like I said, knock yourselves out!

[ncountry]

Now you do need to apply for  access to the park hunting ahead of time right??

 

 

Yes, they changed it up a little this year. I think it is 1st come 1st serve not a lottery like in the past. Except for archery and that is a self issue.(fill out form and carry it)

[TheTruth2]

Can't hunt the park until the 21st

[Five Seasons]

I tell you what, you can go ahead and knock yourself out with that type of hunting, you aren't making many of us envious no matter what kind of bucks you find down there.  The rest of us will wait until we die to be repelled down into hell.  Will be way less strenuous then.   LOL

 

Glad you feel you can speak for all of us. I'm not envious, but I respect what he does. In fact I thought about canoeing across the pond at my camp in the dacks because I know most people are too lazy to. It's a pretty cool adventure if you ask me.

 

[Four Season Whitetail's]

Yeah, that's how the bone collectors usually think.  But like I said, knock yourselves out!

 

Look on the bright side...Everybody grows up from shooting the dumbest deer in the woods sooner or later!

[alwaysarchery67]

We are booked in A cabins for Halloween week....can't wait!

[OTCbowhunter]

Population was looking real good till the farms on the east side of the park started to use nuisance tags. I heard rifle shots along the park all summer long.

[genesee_mohican]

 I know one farmer who owns a lot of the land that borders the park and the deer put a hurtin' on his crops every year. They let very few people hunt it, then complain when the crops get decimated.

[buckordoe]

Yup, Went down Sunday and moved a few stands around on the river. I was shocked to see the amount of sign down on the river bank this early. Im a firm believer that many mature deer call the bottom home all year long. Its like its built into them...Up by night and Down by day. Reguardless of hunting pressure!

Been dying to check these cliffs out

[Santamour123]

We have a bunch that stay down there for the first week or 2 of Novembe every year.  You definatly earn  what yo get!