Can i hunt in the adirondacks

This is a universal suggestion that applies to wherever you hunt deer or any other big game species. Weather, food and the time of rut will influence where the deer will be and what they are doing.

If its early October muzzle-loader season, bucks will probably still be in their feeding and bedding patterns. When the early rut and seeking phase commences, bucks can travel for miles and miles every night and will be almost anywhere.

Tip 3 — When you find fresh sign in the hardwood, remember that it was probably made at night and that buck is more than likely bedded down somewhere else in thick softwood cover or traveling with a doe, depending upon the time of the rut. I find great hardwood scrapes and rubs, hunt that sign all day, and see no deer. Then I go back and do the same thing the next day, and the following day — without any success. Look for thicker softwood areas surrounding the sign.

Remember the big picture and hunt it accordingly. Spend time snooping around, scouting and hunting the edges of the dark green. Tip 4 — Cover lots of ground to find deer — Its fairly common to have to make 6 to mile daily swings throughout a variety of landscape and forest features to find deer — targeting potential food sources, cover, edge and topography. Are bucks in a feeding and bedding routine — such as the early and late season?

Are they on their feet all day looking for does, or with one waiting to breed early to mid-November? That and the weather will dictate your strategy on how and where to hunt. I pinned my location on the GPS, then checked my watch. Also, notes and notes and notes about our dinners, which we take seriously.

Anthony has served spiedies and whitetail chili. After dinner, we take a nightcap into the tent and commence what is probably my favorite tradition of camp. Greg unrolls the giant topo map and sets it on the floor, and we all sit around it as if it were a campfire.

Then, one by one, we take turns tracing and narrating the miles we covered during our hunts. For one, Anthony had recently moved out West with his family, so it was just Greg, Nate, and me.

Camp took a bit longer than usual to set up, but we managed. For the first time ever, instead of setting up in the rain, we pitched our home in the woods as it began to snow in the Adirondacks. My notebooks from the Adirondacks keep piling up, because camp keeps getting longer. In years one and two, we could only budget for three days of hunting. Year three, we extended it to four, and last year we scheduled five. Our reasons for this unofficial tradition of extending camp by a day are both practical and selfish.

Practical, because we want to up our odds of coming across a shooter buck. Selfish, because we want to spend as much time at deer camp as possible. Nate went to hunt his usual spot, but I kept going, following the trail farther than I ever had.

I found a rock overlooking a lake where I sat to finish my breakfast burrito and coffee, and it was around then that I heard a gunshot. Qualified hunters may also purchase licenses from town clerks and at many sporting goods stores.

For more information on obtaining your hunting license visit this page. The magic of the Adirondacks is the result of previous generations taking a long view and protecting the mountains, lakes, and rivers within the Blue Line.

That tradition continues today as we support and encourage everyone to practice Leave No Trace ethics, which help protect the lands and waters of the Adirondacks.

Leave No Trace 7 Principles. Skip to main content. You are here Recreation. Hunting in the Adirondacks. Hunting in the Adirondacks Big game, long season White-tailed deer, black bears, grouse, turkeys, ducks, coyotes, and small game are just a few of the Adirondack wildlife found on one-million acres of public land here.

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