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Mid-Vermont
Joined: 11 Dec 2003
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Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Has anybody hunted in Franklin County in the very northern part of the state of New York (close to malone)? If so, what is the deer population like? Terrain type? |
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ADKBEAR
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
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Location: Central NY
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 5:55 am Post subject: |
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The Deer population is very high right now. Most of the county is in the StLawrence river plane and over the last 10 years that area has seen a large growth in the deer population. The area is a mix of flat to hilly overgrown ag, land swamp, working farms and some forest tossed in. As you move South in the county you start into the Adk's where you have more hill and forest land.
The main proub you will run into (in the Northern parts) is that as the deer population has increased so have the hunters with deep pockets. What you suddenly have is lots of posted land that you pay buy the day/week/season to hunt. This new trend in land owner actions seems to be moving East along the river with the deer. So I would look to the Eastern part of the area you are intending to hunt. Or (myself) I would hunt a little South. Lots of State land in the Adk's
Hope this helps, Eric |
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hunter777
Joined: 28 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| I heard its hard to find the deer in the Aderondacks because of the low densities. Are there more deer in the northern part of the aderondacks? How about bears? |
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ADKBEAR
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Location: Central NY
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| The densities on the fringes of the adk's are up. It is in the central adk's that low deer densities occure due to NY States forever wild regs (no logging). Bear pop is good got one myself up there this year. |
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hunter777
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| Do you target bears or do you hunt for deer and take bear by chance? |
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ADKBEAR
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Location: Central NY
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| I target bears during the early bear season. Mid sept. untill Oct 1st. After that deer season starts and I chase both. |
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NYhunter
Joined: 29 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| ADKBEAR, during early season bear can you hunt with a rifle or is it strictly bow? |
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ADKBEAR
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Location: Central NY
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 6:56 am Post subject: |
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Early bear in NY I hunt with a rifle. I do not bait the bears so I find still hunting to be the most effective way to hunt them in the central adk's. Still hunting does not lend itself well to bow hunting. |
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hunter777
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you bait there? |
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ADKBEAR
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| Nope |
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adirondackhoney
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
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Location: adirondack mountains new york
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject: deer in these adirondack mountains are plentiful |
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ADKBEAR wrote: The Deer population is very high right now. Most of the county is in the StLawrence river plane and over the last 10 years that area has seen a large growth in the deer population. The area is a mix of flat to hilly overgrown ag, land swamp, working farms and some forest tossed in. As you move South in the county you start into the Adk's where you have more hill and forest land.
The main proub you will run into (in the Northern parts) is that as the deer population has increased so have the hunters with deep pockets. What you suddenly have is lots of posted land that you pay buy the day/week/season to hunt. This new trend in land owner actions seems to be moving East along the river with the deer. So I would look to the Eastern part of the area you are intending to hunt. Or (myself) I would hunt a little South. Lots of State land in the Adk's
Hope this helps, Eric
beleive me, i live here, inside the vast thousands of forever wild wilderness area, our road is a main sled route cooridor. |
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MonkeyHunter
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| Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject: I live in St lawrence County |
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I have lived in Ny all of my life. Ive lived in the Adirondacks where the bear population was so high(*mainly do to the local dump*) that we would have bears litteraly on our porch. Now i live just outside of a town called Gouverneur about an hour away from watertown and 2 hours away from Syracuse. The hunting here is great. This fall i got my first turkey about 700 ft away from my house i shot a cottontail and a squirrel. I am going for my first deer. I havent seen much in the way of rubs but ive seen a huge 6 point when i was out duck hunting. I also do a lot of trapping because on my land i have over 100 acres of pure Ny swampland :D great trapping. 2 years ago we got a 75+pound beaver out of a trap where they had made a slide next to a culvert. We just ordered a cd game caller and it should be here within 5 days. i hope to use this to call in some VERY plenitful coyotes that have killed some small livestock. A bear which by the way is very rare around here killed a small young calf. But being on the side of Rt 11 that i live on i nor anyone else could hunt and shoot the bear. No recent complaints have been made about the bear. :)
This year in trapping i hope to make 200 dollars plus which shouldnt be to hard. I also just got a pair of beagle pups. I would like any advice on how to train them to hunt rabbits and coons :P Thanks |
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