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Least hunted public land in Dutchess county

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Hi Everyone,

 

I was wondering out of everyone's own experiences and personal opinions, which are the least deer hunted public lands in Dutchess county? And if they are all hit pretty hard, which areas of those lands no body really ventures too?

 

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I'm actively trying to find some private and work out an agreement with the owner for next year but I'm not holding out much faith that it'll happen.   

 

Every time I've surveyed the open land locally there have been a lot of vehicles parked at the access locations and I just refuse to put myself in harms way in that kind of environment.  I haven't been to Fahnestock or Taconic areas for a long time for those reasons.  Things may have improved but I doubt it.

Fahnestock also requires a special permit (200 max the last knew) and they have to be long gone for this year.

I don't know if it will help you but I have a package of "apps" from the DEC that are Google Earth based that you can download and unzip and use.  One of them is a DEC Land app which shows you the land and description of all DEC areas in New York State.   There's a post on the site somewhere on it but it's probably buried 40 pages down. ;-)

http://www.mediafire.com/download/u3wonaiqq636x13/DEC+Google+Earth+Apps.zip

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I've found some public hunting land in Duchess that is somewhat less crowed by finding the steepest hardest to climb hills or thickest and wettest swamps.  However the best bet is to hunt bow season or the 2nd week of gun season.  Most of the Orangemen don’t hunt after the 1st weekend.  but by then the deer are hold up in remote hard to get to places If they survived the annual march of the pumpkins

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