January doe season

[RageThruTheCage24]

Stumbled upon this article while dinner was cooking and I was checking the news I've never seen this done before has anyone else https://wpdh.com/january-deer-hunting-opportunity-in-central-new-york/

[greensider]

Not much public land and what there is is archery

[Laundron]

Not much public land and what there is is archery

Lol. It says right in the article there’s 60,000 acres and you can use gun in gun areas or bow

[greensider]

Must be a different area than i was thinking I looked into the cortland hunt last year maybe things changed maybe more land open for guns now

[JohnB]

There are 2 state parks that are public but need additional permits to hunt. They are bow and crossbow only. 60,000 acres is the entire size including private land. You would need permission for private like any other time. This is also a shotgun county so no centerfire rifles regardless of extended season.

[Laundron]

I wonder if it would be easy to get permission if they are having such a problem.

[mardo]

Not sure if its still the case, but Cornell university used to allow hunting on its properties. They have a TON of land. Permit system, first come first served. Search Cornell Deer Hunting, might be info available.

[BuckSniper22]

I own 60 acres in the Tompkins county focal area. It’s the worst thing the state ever did imo. There used to be tons of deer when they first implemented the hunt 4 or 5 years ago. Guys came from all around and shot everything that moved. Your allowed 2 doe a day every day from October 1 thru end of season and then it reopens for 3 weeks in January. I never did the math but that’s like 200 legal doe per person. Now we hardly ever see does.  We actually don’t shoot does up there anymore hoping to get the population back up. It’s an anterless only program.

[touge30]

lobbyists insurance companies all about money