NY/CO Public Land??

NYhunterAF · 05-08-2008, 10:09 PM

i know that no one likes to give up there hunting spots, but i was wondering if anyone here from NY or CO knows of any good pieces of public land that hold birds. i am from long island new york but go to school at the Air Force Academy in colorado springs. my dad and i love to turkey hunt but dont own any of our own land upstate, and we havent been able to find any good public land that holds birds yet. and as far as colorado, i would love to do some hunting out here but i have no idea where to go. any help would be awesome, thanks guys! feel free to PM me if you dont want the whole internet knowing your secret spot.

Hobbes · 05-09-2008, 12:48 PM

Rampart Range which isn't far from Colorado Springs has birds (I've been told). All of the area between you and Canon City has birds. In fact, I think the entire front range has them. I killed my first CO turkey this year (moved here in 06) south of Salida. Get on the DOW's web site and you can find a map of their range in pdf.

Never been to NY

Mr. Longbeard · 05-09-2008, 01:08 PM

Call me crazy. But dosent NY have some large tracks of national forest???

NYhunterAF · 05-09-2008, 01:15 PM

yea new york has a lot of public land, but most of it that i have hunted had no birds on it whatsoever. i was wondering if anyone knew of any public land in NY that actually holds birds.

thanks for the info Hobbes!

Mr. Longbeard · 05-09-2008, 01:29 PM

Dude I drove threw up state NY a couple times this spring and that friggin state is full of turkeys!!!! I've seen more turkeys in NY then any state I've ever beren in!!!!

Maybe you should try public land in up state NY

NYhunterAF · 05-09-2008, 02:04 PM

yea but how many of those turkeys that you saw were on public land? theres deff. plent of birds in new york, i just havent been able to find any on public land.

Mr. Longbeard · 05-10-2008, 06:10 PM

Check out the post Pa bird bites the dust in Allegany national forest!!!

You might want to try what deeg1502 did for his hunt on public land in Pa

NY/Al · 05-11-2008, 07:58 AM

NY is loaded with turkeys man, id just rather not say where!

NYhunterAF · 05-11-2008, 10:22 AM

lol yea guys, i know that NY has lots of birds, thats whats so frustrating. theres tons of birds, but wherever i hunt theres none.

Zdeerslayer · 05-11-2008, 09:05 PM

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ORIGINAL: NY/Al

NY is loaded with turkeys man, id just rather not say where!

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