Albany CO: after you get through with the encon sites, see if you can print or find topographical maps of the areas you wish to hunt. If you haven't used topo maps before, and they are available at the libraries (for copying), you can overlay those on the WMD maps and pretty much find out where you want/need to go.
Saratoga County - some areas to the north and east of the Clifton Park area may be open to rifle but there are bunches of areas in the Schoharie, with Blenheim being one and the Cherry Valley area being another area. You just have to check out the EnCOn maps and find a place to set yourself up.
Also, just as you have probably already determined after walking around the Partridge Run area, these public areas get set up by mostly local folk with stands and ground blinds either early in the season, pre-season or from last year. I used to hunt Partridge Run and would go through Altamont and up past the seminary to get there. There was/is a small parking area across the road from one of the wmd entrances that my buddy and I would go to.
But Partridge Run is a 'strange' area.......my buddy and I once encountered two older hunters and their dog. These two older fellas were pretty much like me and my buddy and it was interesting talking to them but the strange part was that when we turned around and then turned back, they were gone and we couldn't figure out how they got there or where they parked and when we later looked at where they told us they had come from all we saw were two tire tracks coming from an overgrown area that had not seen a vehicle in over 20 years.............................strange indeed..... Mikey.
