Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
11-29-2007, 04:15 PM
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Canandaigua, NY
Posts: 550
Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
Just wondering if anyone in Steuben, Yates or Chemung has been using a rifle for gun season. Curious to see who likes the new rule,who doesn't or whateveryones thoughts are.
11-29-2007, 04:34 PM
#3
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Canandaigua, NY
Posts: 550
RE: Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
I was hunting in Ontario County last weekend and it was a releif to go back to the north country and pull out the rifle. Call me a wimp but it was quite a bit lighter.
11-29-2007, 05:45 PM
#4
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 63
RE: Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
Rifle hunting = 1 shot, small hole, dead deer
Shotgun hunting = bam bam bam bam bam ... reload ... bam bam bam ...
I wish Tompkinsand Cortland would make the switch. We hunt all over NY and this is the last area that is still shotgun. We hunt the tri-county uplands area. Only Tioga is rifle.
Shotgun hunting = bam bam bam bam bam ... reload ... bam bam bam ...
I wish Tompkinsand Cortland would make the switch. We hunt all over NY and this is the last area that is still shotgun. We hunt the tri-county uplands area. Only Tioga is rifle.
11-30-2007, 06:15 AM
#5
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Stacy Basin, NY
Posts: 845
RE: Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
ORIGINAL: Newtown
Rifle hunting = 1 shot, small hole, dead deer
Shotgun hunting = bam bam bam bam bam ... reload ... bam bam bam ...
I wish Tompkinsand Cortland would make the switch. We hunt all over NY and this is the last area that is still shotgun. We hunt the tri-county uplands area. Only Tioga is rifle.
Rifle hunting = 1 shot, small hole, dead deer
Shotgun hunting = bam bam bam bam bam ... reload ... bam bam bam ...
I wish Tompkinsand Cortland would make the switch. We hunt all over NY and this is the last area that is still shotgun. We hunt the tri-county uplands area. Only Tioga is rifle.
11-30-2007, 06:55 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,862
RE: Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
quote:ORIGINAL: Newtown Rifle hunting = 1 shot, small hole, dead deer Shotgun hunting = bam bam bam bam bam ... reload ... bam bam bam ... I wish Tompkins and Cortland would make the switch. We hunt all over NY and this is the last area that is still shotgun. We hunt the tri-county uplands area. Only Tioga is rifle. More the operator then the equipment dont you think? Not everyone unloads on a deer with a shotgun, most people go, one shot one hole, dead deer, just has a slightly bigger hole!
I don't know. I hunted in a shotgun only county years ago and definitely heard much more shooting than I ever did in a rifle area. I don't know if this is due to fewer hunters in recent years, or something else. I know that someone who knows what a shotgun is capable of and knows how to shoot well doesn't need more than one round, but I think alot of other shotgunners take shots at deer beyond it's capabilities and that's where the rapid firing starts.
11-30-2007, 12:15 PM
#8
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 63
RE: Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
Modern shotguns for deer are a vast improvement over the old pumpkin launchers. But make no mistake, a centerfile rifle is a far superior weapon.
Certainly not everyone unloads on deer. A rifle hunter unloading on a deer is a very rare event. A shotgun hunter unloading on a deer is not. Just listen to the woods in the counties that have changed (silence...pow...silence). And then listen to a county that has not (blam blam blam blam blam).
Shotguns are for rabbits, rifles are for deer.
Certainly not everyone unloads on deer. A rifle hunter unloading on a deer is a very rare event. A shotgun hunter unloading on a deer is not. Just listen to the woods in the counties that have changed (silence...pow...silence). And then listen to a county that has not (blam blam blam blam blam).
Shotguns are for rabbits, rifles are for deer.
11-30-2007, 04:30 PM
#9
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 17
RE: Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
NH hunter here. I live in a shotgun town , but rifle starts about 25 minutes west of here.There are more deer haere and I have a doe permit for this area. I still drive the 30 min every day just to hunt with a rifle I enjoy it more.
12-02-2007, 03:39 PM
#10
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Owego, NY
Posts: 61
RE: Southern Tier Rifle Hunting
Certainly not everyone unloads on deer. A rifle hunter unloading on a deer is a very rare event. A shotgun hunter unloading on a deer is not. Just listen to the woods in the counties that have changed (silence...pow...silence). And then listen to a county that has not (blam blam blam blam blam).