Vermont rifle season

[jf5]

Any reports???

[Rob in VT]

The kill during rifle is way down, around 25%. Something like 4,800 in 2003 compared to 6,400 during the same time period in 2002. Vermont is in desperate need of good whitetail management.

. . . Rob

[upstateny]

Hey Rob if you guys could get your politicians to stop jacking deer that would be a start. At least the last one shot a robot and got caught.

[Rob in VT]

I hear ya Upstate! What a disgrace that was.

I spent the first week of December in your state deer hunting (western NY). What a great place. Lots of deer and some nice bucks. I took a doe and a decent 8 pt. Can't wait to get back next year. I wouldn't even buy a Vermont license next year, but the turkey hunting is too good here to pass up.

. . . Rob

[jf5]

Wow, that is depressing news. I love Vermont and would love to hunt up there but havn't due to the poor reports I get yearly. I didn't hear about the deer jacking politician...that is sad.

I hear ya about NY, I'll be hunting there for the first time next year.

[upstateny]

I live next to Plattsburgh I took a 210 # 6 pointer w/ my muzzle and a 140 # 4 pointer w/ my rifle. Seen a lot of deer this year. I would like to get a moose permit to go to vt and hunt them.

Jamie

[Rob in VT]

That's about all we have for good big game hunting in the state now is moose and turkey. Godd luck trying to draw a tag. With only 440 tags given away and over 8,000 applicants, the odds aren't very good.

Congrats on the deer. My 8 pt was 140 lbs and taken with a shotgun.





. . . Rob

[upstateny]

Nice deer. Heres a pic of the 210# 6 pointer. I shot him with a Knight MK-85 muzzleloader. It won me a Reminton model 700 in a local big buck contest.

[upstateny]

And heres the pic of the 4 pointer I took during rifle season. I took him with a New England Firearms single shot .270.

[webejonesin2]

congrats on your deer. i was begining to think that i was the only one that thought that VT needs help.