Good to see some positive feedback. Disgruntled hunters tend to dominate the airways but that goes for everything. Our landscape is going full circle and much of our land is reverting back to hardwood forest as it once was. Deer populations change with the landscape and so must we as hunters. We are losing access to private land but NY has many large tracts of state land that are not trampled by hunters if you have the legs and thedesire to hunt it properly. Many hunters are the first ones to post their little piece of woods or lease a larger tract and post it. I stopped hunting a very nice area in SW NY that has become checkerboard hunting camps owned by out of town guys that spend more time patrolling and fighting than hunting. Our deer hunting ancestors would flip if they saw the nonsense that takes place among our own people. I own land that abutts state land and I keep it open. I understand there are problems out there and I have witnessed many myself, but let's look at ourselves as a collective hunting community and stop making excuses and arguments over insurance companies, coyotes, mountain lions, doe permits, etc.

Ihunt other states and my home state of NY is on top for deer hunting.Our pictures over the last10 years compared to the previous 10 years are proof. Same amount of deer killed but size and antlersare getting bigger every year.And many of our recent deer were taken off state land. Back in the days of the orangearmies, we hardly ventured on to state land. I like the way the woods are looking in NY.

Peace.