PINE BUSH (ALBANY NY)
03-27-2005, 01:32 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Ludlow MA.
Posts: 1,478
PINE BUSH (ALBANY NY)
HAS ANYBODY HUNTED THIS AREA ,I KNOW ITS BOW ONLY? I LIVE ABOUT AHOUR AWAY IN MA. AND WAS THINKING OF HUNTING IN NEW YORK THIS YEAR, ONE OF THE TRUCK DRIVERS THAT COMES INTO MY WORK LIVES BY THERE AND SAID HE COULD SHOW ME AROUND IF I WAS GOING OUT THERE. THANKS
03-29-2005, 03:26 PM
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Clifton Park New York USA
Posts: 367
RE: PINE BUSH (ALBANY NY)
I've also thought about the Pine Bush. From what I've heard from two NY State Troopers who bowhunt in the Albany area (and other bowhunters in the Albany area), if you're into deer ticks, the Pine Bush is for you. There's some pretty big deer there (and in the Corning Preserve near the Hudson River, but it's tough to hunt there), from what they've told me. And, from what the NYSDEC's magazine (The Conservationist) has said, the biggest deer in NY are in the bow-only areas.
Rick, where in Clifton Park are you?
Rick, where in Clifton Park are you?
03-29-2005, 07:40 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cazenovia, NY USA
Posts: 2,973
RE: PINE BUSH (ALBANY NY)
The Pine Bush is a wonderful area - and the private lands bordering the "official" areas of the pine Bush are great.
I did my Thesis on the regeneration of scrub oak due to Fire vs. clearcutting as management tools in the 1980s - I saw some really great bucks there. I never hunted it once - I had other areas to hunt - and there was always people like me bouncing around ( and karner blue butterfly lovers) in the Pine Bush. The public sections were difficult to hunt for this reason.
The sheer amounts of acorns from the low growth scrub oaks made it a whitetail deer paradise. Follow the blue jays for ripe acorn areas!
FH
I did my Thesis on the regeneration of scrub oak due to Fire vs. clearcutting as management tools in the 1980s - I saw some really great bucks there. I never hunted it once - I had other areas to hunt - and there was always people like me bouncing around ( and karner blue butterfly lovers) in the Pine Bush. The public sections were difficult to hunt for this reason.
The sheer amounts of acorns from the low growth scrub oaks made it a whitetail deer paradise. Follow the blue jays for ripe acorn areas!
FH
03-30-2005, 06:39 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 4,679
RE: PINE BUSH (ALBANY NY)
ORIGINAL: Muddyemms
I'm in Hollandale. No, not yet. Two guys in the hunting camp I belong to are, so when I feel a need to go, I call one of them. I will before the summer, though.
I'm in Hollandale. No, not yet. Two guys in the hunting camp I belong to are, so when I feel a need to go, I call one of them. I will before the summer, though.
