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Proposed Hunting Regulation Changes in NYS
« on: May 09, 2006, 12:30:26 PM »
Check out this article from the DEC website.  It outlines proposed changes to hunting regulations in the Southern Zone of NYS.  The DEC wants to expand bear hunting into some new zones that have been reporting nuisance issues.  The DEC also would like to expand the antler restrictions currently in place.  Check out the article...What do you think?  I am no where near these zones so it really doesn't have an effect on me.  

http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/environmentdec/2006a/publiccomment042506.html
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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2006, 03:15:34 PM »
Well I live pretty close to those areas ... I can't say I heard alot about nuisance bears in those WMU's . I pay pretty close attention to the news around here and I would think I would have herd something about them. I live just north of those areas and the bear population around here is north of me . Last time we had a bear around here 5R was a mother and cubs and that was many years ago . Plus if the bears are comming from the north they still have to cross the Mohawk River. As for the deer restrictions I never really hunted those areas.

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« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2006, 03:41:17 AM »
I read the article and have no problems with the antler restrictions.  I see far too many button bucks taken when they should be left for the next year to mature and increase the herd size.  When you start wiping out all the does and buttons your herd size decreases significantly and I would prefer seeing more mature bucks and a larger herd size.  

As for Black Bear - my next door neighbor had one on his back porch going through his garbage cans a few yeas ago - I think he got hit on I-88 and was killed (the bear).  Also, at my family farm on the Montgomery/Schenectady county line I have seen bear scat a couple of times.  Mikey.

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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2006, 06:01:30 AM »
I was hoping 1 of the regulation changes would include an early either $ex muzleloader season for southern zone.  They tried it last year but too many archers were unwilling to share.

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« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2006, 07:03:58 AM »
well i am against antler ristrictions. i grew up hunting in the catskills with real sportsmen who enjoyed the family aspect of our sport,spending time togather doing what we chose to do our sport HUNTING. it is more than killing a huge buck, the outdoors, the special time in the woods among gods creatures and family. not the beefed up gotta shoot a big buck every year attitude. if that is what you are after then thats what you enjoy. we spend the same hard earned dollars for a licence that you do and i am not trying to tell you what you what to do or harvest. we cry that the youth is not getting involved and want special seasons and drop the age limit and then put hand cuffs on them. I am so tired of all the explotation of our sport and the money grabbing gotta have this gear or this scent to shoot a big buck. In the end we are hunting to get some fine table fare. So if a spike walks thru with 3" its my lucky day. As for button bucks antler restrictions are not going to save them not if they keep putting out DMP's. Lets educaite our future hunters on what a mature doe looks like to save the button buck! My grandfather Walter Cline would turn over in his grave at all this trash.
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