Things are feeling mighty lonesome out there

[airedale]

2 hours ago, suburbanfarmer said:

Everyone wants to be a social media celebrity 

 Now that is not far from the truth.

I guess the silver lining in these hunter declines is that it does give those still active a bit more opportunity.

Al

[Moho81]

This is the second and maybe even third year in a row it seems that deer have just vanished off of our property once the gun season started. Our 500 acres gets hunted hard. Harder than any piece of public land but the surrounding properties no longer seem to get hunted at all and we think the deer get scattered off our property and just stay away because no one is pushing them back. 

Even with that said I don't hear many shots off in the distance either. I was out yesterday until 12:30 and there was only one shot the entire time and it was the coldest morning with a light dusting of snow. Almost perfect conditions for deer movement and nothing. 

[landtracdeerhunter]

On 12/1/2024 at 8:27 PM, DirtTime said:

It's hard to promote hunting in NY. They make it to hard for us to buy the items needed. When you need a background check for a ML there's a problem.

I was talking to an acquaintance last Summer who said he's no longer hunting in NY because of all of the latest gun laws. He's not alone, not only are hunters going elsewhere to buy ammo they are going elsewhere to hunt. Thought being they will no longer support a state that doesn't support them. Right or wrong I see the validity in those who feel that way.

 

In my area of the lower ADK's there were a fair amount of hunters out for the regular season on public land. There's also a good population of pheasants in the area so archery season was a PITA because of the guys hunting birds emptying their shotguns at flying birds. This was the first season I can remember in my life I left the woods during a bow hunt because of not feeling safe to be out there with other hunters.

If firearms owners would get out and vote, things might have been a little different in this state right now. It far easier for  them to sit back and bitch about it