Who's Ready For NY Season To Start?
09-20-2010, 10:44 AM
#32
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: New York
Posts: 1,570
Hunt steuben County every year over near Hammondsport off of Pleasant Valley Rd. and on Mt. Washington near the winding stairs on the State land. Have taken some real fine deer over the years that way.
Also hunt the Northern Zone "Adirondacks" in Franklin by Union Falls Pond off of Rt 48. Usually for the last two days of the early archery, then the first week of the ML season. Seen some of the biggest deer in my life over that way. Well over 300 lbs and 4 1/2 - 5 1/2 years old. Good job NY!!
Also hunt the Northern Zone "Adirondacks" in Franklin by Union Falls Pond off of Rt 48. Usually for the last two days of the early archery, then the first week of the ML season. Seen some of the biggest deer in my life over that way. Well over 300 lbs and 4 1/2 - 5 1/2 years old. Good job NY!!
09-29-2010, 04:59 PM
#37
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Southern New Hampshire
Posts: 190
I still think they were some type of cross/hybrid between the two species. My buddy was telling me what I probably saw was what is called the Adirondack buck, a sub-species of the North American whitetail and the Canadian / Quebec species.
Any truth to that, that you know of?
09-29-2010, 08:28 PM
#38
My brother-in-law got his license, doe permits, and some sort of other hunting/crop damage permit since he owns a 125 acre farm.
I am really looking forward to this hunting trip in November. You can shoot rifles in Madison Co, (7M) which is a good thing.
10-01-2010, 10:40 AM
#39
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Northern NY
Posts: 311
I'll say this, the first year I hunted Union I came up on two bucks bedded down together that I could of sworn looked a lot like a Mulie. Got back to camp and asked my buddy "who owns a camp on the lake" if NY had Mule deer...he laughed at me....I took that as "NO". I have seen and taken a few large Whitetail over the years but these were definitely the biggest I had ever seen in 35 years of hunting.
I still think they were some type of cross/hybrid between the two species. My buddy was telling me what I probably saw was what is called the Adirondack buck, a sub-species of the North American whitetail and the Canadian / Quebec species.
Any truth to that, that you know of?
I still think they were some type of cross/hybrid between the two species. My buddy was telling me what I probably saw was what is called the Adirondack buck, a sub-species of the North American whitetail and the Canadian / Quebec species.
Any truth to that, that you know of?
10-01-2010, 11:49 AM
#40
Wow small world, HardwoodHunter... I finished up high school in Parishville (graduated from Parishville-Hopkinton back in 1979).
I've been all over the Adirondacks, way back in the day. Ever since I moved away back then (joined the US Coast Guard, stayed in for a career, then retired), I still miss the Adirondacks. I hope one of these days I can make it up there and see everything, and see what's changed.
