Steve,
I am not familiar with NYS. Where is that. I guessit wasn't like that then all over the state when I started hunting then. I hunted in the southwest portion of the state in Greene, Fayette and Somerset counties. When hunting in Greene county the first Saturday of the season I remember I was sitting in a valley of State Game Lands and had so many deer run, the best estimate that I can give as at least 40 deer total from different groups ran in.