Hey guys, even though my location says "Richmond, Virginia" I go hunting in central New York, just a little south of Utica in between Route 12 and Route 8.
DEC area: 7M
County: Madison
Town: Brookfield
My sister & bro-in-law have a real nice 125 acre farm and let me come up and go hunting any time I want. Besides the farm/private land, there is a bunch of state lands and state forests around the area too.
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/34531.html
I also found this excellent link on the DEC website that shows a big breakdown on the 2009 deer season. Total deer, total harvest, deer per sq. mile., and even starting on page 14 of the .pdf file, it breaks it down further by county and city/town.
http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/09deerrpt.pdf
Hope this helps!
New York is a lot better than Virginia, in my opinion:
- You guys allow hunting on Sunday.
- Your deer are bigger bodied.
- And you guys don't hunt deer with hound dogs.