Expectations for this upcoming deer season

[Terry1]

What expectations do you guys have for this upcoming NY deer season? I am expecting succuess rates to be similar to last year. Maybe a few more buck.

[K.K]

I think that the outlook is good. Wet summer and lots of vegetation and mast crops are great, at least up here. My plots have been hammered all summer, and I've been seeing deer every weekend while I'm up at my camp. Overall, I think it should be very good. Good luck to all. I am going bowhunting this Saturday!!!!

[1marty]

I live in the southern zone and have been seeing more deer this year. They all look in great shape.

[fishdog52]

Around region 8, I've been seeing lots of deer + there were quite a few does with twin fawns back in the spring + our acorn crop is strong.  Should add up to a good season. Now, if the weather will just co-operate a little....

[Leatherstocking]

I agree that the buck take will be up this year, primarily due to the fact that the southern tier gun opener is so early, on the 15th. Rut is likely to be in full swing. I did not see many fawns this spring, in fact I recall thinking that I saw quite few, and lots of does without fawns - that is in the areas of Dutchess and Otsego counties. But in Dutchess it is common to see does without fawns because the doe/buck ratio is so screwed up. Way too many does per buck such that many are not getting bred even after three chances.

[timmo58]

well i expect to be thrown off somebodys land by 9-10 in am of first day, some realty co went and posted the land that i have hunted for 40 yrs and told no one ,nobody at all seen em do it either and the name barnyard realty makes me wonder ? and I will untill they catch up with me and proove they own it.. then and only then will i give up the land in question has never been posted in 50 yrs but now all of a sudden some city folks come to chenango county and try to rule ,we farmers rule , as we feed them deer ,year round .im hunting out of same tree for 40 yrs now and i aint moving for no city slicker who picks up a rifle once a year and goes hunting they post all their land then hunt yours cause it aint posted and they hear shots from your land cause the lazy f wont get up off his warm a and push the deer to move any at all lazy city boy eat your posters give a farmer a break hey in mean time ill take all the tresspassing tickets the judge will listen to when he hears my side too lesson why post your land are you that poor of a hunter to claim all of it yours to hunt    u dont own any deer and all lands should be open regaurdless

[ToadHill]

Well Timmo58 I disagree.  I'm a city boy who has paid taxes on my farm for over 25 years.  I always kept it open for hunting until about 3 years ago when I went into the woods and found some of the locals I let hunt there had left beer and pop cans, candy and food wrappers all over my woods. They seem to be able to carry this junk in but can't carry it out.  Well now it's posted.  If you have your own land then you have no reason to hunt other people's land.

[Terry1]

Toadhill, I hope you know that not every person who hunts is that disrespectful. Littering, killing everything they see, and bringing a bunch of their friends, is what gives land owners a bad taste in their mouth about letting hunters on their land. I have encountered this many times. It makes it hard for clean, ethical hunters like myself to find good places to hunt. Sorry this happened to you, I would have reacted the same way you did.

[timmo58]

i too agree if sombody or a group of em came to my land,,, and left a mess id be down right pXXXXX  off and would do something so fast with posters and a shot gun that would make your head spin on the other hand guys come to the state forest and camp all through deer season sleeping in tents and haveing camp fires burning 24/7 with nobody AROUND dec in NEW YORK STATE is so understaffed that dec  dont even come around anymore and the hunters who have these camps know it, and shoot every deer they see... no matter what ,at end of each day they load these deer into a pickup with a cap on it and go straight to the butcher by morning they are all cut up and who can tell a doe from a buck when its in white paper sitting in a freezer i cant THAT AND THE GARBAGE THEY LEAVE rueins it for all hunters , when I see that many times the state land roads and banks have become a good place to dump household garbage all over the woods and no-one does anything about it, i have even put adds in local newspaper about the mess and the  hunters that camp and leave their crap all over yes i look thru it to find a name or even an address to nail somone with the crime and even have gone and picked up their crap this fall will be different as i now have an uncle that is a dec officer and will follow up on the reports ill have to make most of them could care less and they wont pick it up either thats what the prisoners do in the summer time if enough reports are made in a certain area but it is rare