livingston
20×102mm Vulcan
New DEC rules are changing deer season in NY — more antlerless tags, unlimited tag transfers, and a new way to earn a second buck tag. Here's what hunters need to know.
DEC announces major deer hunting rule changes 7/14/26
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New DEC rules are changing deer season in NY — more antlerless tags, unlimited tag transfers, and a new way to earn a second buck tag. Here's what hunters need to know.
Robin
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Damn, not another freezer!
Robin
Robin
Bustedknees
12-gauge slug (smooth bore)
I'm not seeing the over population numbers they're crying about and I've lived in the country for the last 40 years.
This is just car insurance companies and city folk who hate critters eating their landscaping.
This is just car insurance companies and city folk who hate critters eating their landscaping.
1075tech
.338 Win Mag
Robin
.577 Tyrannosaur.
What? Must be using the same format as Defilade.
Robin
Come to Chautauqua Co.
The deer are ridiculous.
20 years ago you could see herds of 20 or so deer, now, herds of 50+. Its actually kind of amazing to see a near endless sea of deer.
We have 3 does with babies that visit our yard. Two of them have 2 fawns, the other has 3.
For years ive had a deer down before sun up on opening day, and could have more....but im too lazy to process multiple deer.
I'd have to imagine that with CWD deer will eventually be declared endangered and thus bye bye deer hunting.
From what I have read we are looking at an extinction of the species if things don't change somehow
From what I have read we are looking at an extinction of the species if things don't change somehow
Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
This. There are deer everywhere by me. Drove the thruway or main road and there are dead deer everywhere by me. No public land to hunt by me is the reason. I know very few people my age that hunt anymore.
Look into joining in on a hunting lease in your county , or better yet, befriend a farmer and offer to help out. A lot of the older small farmers are short on farm hands .
OwnTheRide
6.5 Creedmoor
Interesting. Where I'm at (a very rural area) has had a notable decrease in the deer population from 20-30 years ago. Back then, a "run around the horn" (a 2-3 mile circuit) while spotlighting would expose 200+ deer. Today, maybe 50.
It's not sport hunting - it used to sound like WWIII on opening day, now you hear 1-2 dozen shots at most all morning.
It's not food - there's a major farming operation around here that provides plenty of that.
Old timers at the camp I hunt from say it's the nuisance permits that farming operation gets, but I don't think that's the case. I live here now, I don't hear a lot of gunfire at any point throughout the year.
Im not sure what's going on around here in Chautauqua Co, but I do have a theory.
We are very rural also, and there are very few children. Many of our "neighbors" are empty nesters or over 65 years old.
20+ years ago it was like WW3 here too. Now I hear maybe 6 shots in the first half hour.
It used to be you could drive around during regular season and see dozens of trucks and cars parked, and see dozens of hunters in the fields. Now, I see almost none. The majority of the hunters in our immediate area are Amish.
Its kind of funny that sometimes ill hear 10-15 rapid shotgun blasts. The Amish almost exclusively use shotguns around here. They do deer drives and take out 5-6 deer in one flurry of death!
Unfortunately they are very commonly poaching. They usually play dumb when caught.
You may have heard my 3 year long issue trying to keep them off our land, ive posted about it several times. It included DEC officers, trail cameras, and nighttime surveillance. By the end of it, the DEC officers became more of an issue. I had to get a judges order to keep the DEC off our 440 acres!!
You know the Amish have been on your property when you find half a dozen carcasses on your land. They leave the head, bones, and hide. They just haul out the meat, like we do when Elk or goat hunting miles in the bush.
Same here.
Tons of deer, very few hunters. The rural folk aren't breeding like they used to....except the Amish, they breed like rabbits.
I know a lady in her early 30s, she has 9 freaking kids, and is ALWAYS pregnant when I see her.
We have a lot of public land, but nobody is using it. I have thousands of acres right around me. There is Hill Higher State Forest, Broken straw WMU, Watts Flatts, Panama State Lands, Dole Swamp, Wellman WMU, Alder Bottom.....
Look at a hunting map of the area surrounding Panama NY, tons of public hunting. Western NY always has the highest deer harvesting in the state.
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
We have plenty of deer in the city. they live primarily on the railroad tracks and come into the parks and yards at night. I have them in my yard almost every night , I toss em a few apples or grapes , but they are all over the place.
spat
.950 JDJ
This is one of the few things where NY is better than AZ.
Deer are sparse out here compared to NY, and the demand by hunters is high enough that they have to do a lottery for deer tags.
It's not terrible where I am, but you're not guaranteed a tag (or 3) like we were in NY.
Deer are sparse out here compared to NY, and the demand by hunters is high enough that they have to do a lottery for deer tags.
It's not terrible where I am, but you're not guaranteed a tag (or 3) like we were in NY.
So, I've lived in this Village of roughly 1500 people for over 33 years, and being somewhat a rural, farming community one would expect Deer in the fields around the Houses however not so much in their yards, but they very much ARE right here...there's always a couple does with fawns or yearlings, but last Spring in the field behind my house we counted 27 of them....I expect a few get harvested locally, if the fuckers won't stay out of my garden there might have to be a few more!
Bustedknees
12-gauge slug (smooth bore)
I've thought about giving it up but I like to be out with all the kids. And I still like the walking my gun on warmer, sunny fall days.
OwnTheRide
6.5 Creedmoor
Yeah, the Amish do not respect land boundaries like most of the rest of us do.
spat
.950 JDJ
Their society is borderline communist (in the commune way, not the totalitarian state way), they have very little respect for the idea of ownership.
GTN
.308 Win
Yeah can’t see the videos either
Robin
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Tick tock?
Robin
Robin
I live in Northern Genesee county, the deer population has dropped every year. Our sportmen's club used to have 20-30 deer entered in Big Buck/Big Doe contest s, now only 3-4. Members come in saying they haven't seen shit, very few sightings...
It got to the point that 2 guys were showed time and location stamped trail cam pictures of their faces, but said, "no sir, not us".
Eventually the poachers stayed away, but then the DEC officers believed they had free range to our property.
Four different times I saw them in our woods. After the second and third times I called their boss.
I was told they needed to gather Intel on poachers on the state land next to ours. Because for 2 seasons I let them roam, and set camera traps, they believed they could just do it permanently.
Finally our local judge ordered them to stay away. Weeks later during regular season I was stopped by a DEC officer while I was walking my property by the road.
This was the first time in 35 years hunting this land Ive been questioned. He wanted to see my hunting license and asked if I had any other weapons on me. I told him I had a 10mm handgun, he asked "why?"
I said "why not?"
Suspecting shenanigans I asked if he needed my ID. He said, "no, I know this is your property".
Three days later another officer stopped while I was getting my mail after hunting. I was at my mailbox, shotgun slung on my shoulder, so obviously not hunting.
He asked if I had seen anything. Then asked to see my hunting license. I told him I wasn't hunting. He drove away.
I contacted the judge, who agreed with the shenanigans and APPARENTLY told the DEC top brass to tell his guys to NOT speak to me unless a clear and present crime was being committed.
So, I asked for help with poachers. The DEC pushed their power, I reported their actions, they were reprimanded and then retaliated...but for some reason I feel like a bad guy. I did everything by the book, but they got butt hurt.
Its been years now and I just get a friendly wave from the DEC guys.
Was being questioned twice in 3 days, a couple weeks after this interaction a coincidence? I think no.