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CORRECTION - your little part of 8Y is "loaded with deer."
The WMU 8Y is down 45% since 2003, and will probably decrease even more when this years harvest is counted.
Count your blessings if you have good deer numbers. It is certainly not the case in most areas in our neck of the woods.
I think this is a major obstacle in our state. Many guys that have a few hundred acres of private land all to themselves and they see good deer numbers all the time because there isn't enough pressure to scare them off or enough hunters to reduce them dramatically.........they develope illusions that this is how it is everywhere in the state.
I'm happy for ya man..........but your case is not indicative of the average hunter in NY.