Any Good (Rabbit) Hunting in Scenic Adirondaks or Elsewhere?

[nanderson]

Hello everyone!

Glad to have found this forum, theres not a whole bunch of info I found on Google about hunting in NY - most pointed right here in fact.  I'm wondering if anyone here might have some insight to share.  I head to NY from Fl to hunt opening day almost every year with family however typically just hunt deer and bear.  This year I was thinking of doing a bit of rabbit hunting the week before but have never been rabbit hunting anywhere, let alone in NY.  I've found some guides online who provide the dogs for a reasonable fee in the Adirondaks but am not sure if the hunting is any good up there and am hoping for a little advice.

The other side of this coin - the misses (who hates hunting, naturally) wants to get away for a weekend so I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone - take her up to something scenic in the Adirondaks then fly her back and do some hunting before heading out with family for opening day.

The question: is any part of this plan bad/crazy/could better be done somewhere else in NY?  Would prefer not to cross into Vermont or Canada since we already pay for the NY hunting license, etc.  Weather is usually pretty drab and awful where we hunt in mid November, I was hoping up North more in the mountains might be a little more tolerable?  I'm pretty open to suggestions here if anyone has any.  Thanks in advance!

[Paula]

I can't help with any spefic spots for rabbit but I know one guy that hunts them In Tupper Lake, I hear going out of Saranac into Vermontville and or Lake Placid is suppose to be good also. 

Lake George is nice. Good luck

[Steve D]

23 hours ago, nanderson said:

I've found some guides online who provide the dogs for a reasonable fee in the Adirondaks but am not sure if the hunting is any good up there and am hoping for a little advice.

It would be safe to presume if they are guides and have dogs they have rabbits to hunt. More than likely they are snowshoe rabbits which are nothing like hunting a cottontail. Be prepared for some long runs and possibly walking in snow up to your you know what.

 

23 hours ago, nanderson said:

The question: is any part of this plan bad/crazy/could better be done somewhere else in NY?

Rabbits can pretty much be found in any part of the state if you can find someone to hook up with that has dogs. Some good hunting can be found in the Tug Hill area....but again mostly snowshoes with a cottontail here and there.

[Buckmaster7600]

Big problem you will have is I don't know of any guides that will hunt bunnies are hat time of year. Northern zone deer hunting is in its prime the week before the southern zone opener. I would be very surprised if any guide would let dogs run the woods that time of year.


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[nanderson]

Hmm, so that could be a problem...the zone we typically hunt is the tail end of bow and muzzleloader that week, neither of which I do.  What about heading a little further south in NY, any guides there?  Google turns up few, one out in Long Island and one in Stuyvesant.  No chance I'm going to hunt Long Island and get chewed on by Ticks and the other is up North as well.

Its been pretty warm the past several years on opening week and there have been ticks all over some of our deer, I was hoping to be in some snow up North to cut down on the parasites but I guess I'd take my chances wherever the good hunting is.  Any other spots which are recommended here for rabbit?  They don't necessarily have to be scenic in this case.

[turkeyfeathers]

Have train tracks you can walk/ hunt from ? We used to walk them and pop shoot a bunch while they'd sun them selves   Our Ruger 10/.22's and walking a few miles of tracks paired up with a lot of shake n bake bunnies.