Capitalizing on New York’s Northern Zone early season for whitetails

The 2022 Northern Zone regular season remains a head-scratcher for myself and our crew, the Iron Sight Gang. It was certainly unpredictable in terms of rutting activity and featured some of the warmest early-season temperatures I can remember.
It was also productive, especially during the first half. About a decade ago, there was a brief proposal on the table to shorten the Northern Zone regular (rifle) season – which currently runs for 44 days – by a couple of weeks. I know there are Adirondack hunters out there who would still favor such a change, mainly because they feel the end result would be a greater number of mature bucks.

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