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Sportsmen Since 1968

Dan Ladd

Record-book buck highlights opener during New York’s Southern Zone deer season

New York’s Southern Zone opening day featured favorable weather, if not a bit on the cold side, across most of the state, bringing plenty of hunters out for the state’s biggest hunting day of the year. 
For Jeremy Williams, of Tioga Center in Tioga County, it was the biggest hunting day of his life.  Williams got a second chance at a massive 12-point typical buck he’d missed while bowhunting last season.

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Still-hunting the big woods of Maine provides valuable lessons

Snow came early to northeastern Maine this deer season, arriving about mid-morning on Oct. 30, which was opening day for non-residents.
My two New York hunting partners – Rick Goodman, of our Iron Sight Gang Adirondack crew, and Matt Novak, both from Warren County, and myself, were hitting the thick Maine woods. Guiding us was our friend, Randy Flannery, who runs Wilderness Escape Outfitters in Danforth, not far from the Canadian border.

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The public lands of the recently updated Tug Hill East Unit in New York

In October, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation finalized a Unit Management Plan for the Tug Hill East Unit. The area covers a total of 22,886 acres of public lands spread out amongst seven State Forests, one Unique Area, and 13 Forest Preserve parcels in the Lewis County.

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News items regarding wolves out of Michigan and Wisconsin should be considered of interest to New York’s sporting community

When I was a kid, my parents had two cameras with which we took family photos. One was a Polaroid Instamatic that in the late 1970s was the coolest thing because you took a picture and about a minute later you had a hard copy of it. Then there was the old 110 film camera, a standard of the era before the 35mm became a little more portable, affordable, and therefore popular at the same time.

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DEC encourages antlerless deer harvest, safety as New York’s Southern Zone hunters start Nov. 18

New York’s busiest hunting days are just about here, as the Southern Zone rifle opening day for white-tailed deer is Saturday, Nov. 18. The early days of this season is when more hunters take to the fields and forests of New York’s southern tier than on any other hunting days. 
And in the days leading up to the Southern Zone opener, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has been encouraging hunters to go afield safely, and asking them to help out with deer management – in some areas – by harvesting more antlerless deer. 

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Junior trappers develop techniques at New York Trappers Association youth camps

When Columbus Day weekend rolls around, it’s not just about deer hunting for New York’s youth sports kids. The New York State Trappers Association annually organizes two weekend-long trapping camps for youth ages 12-14, allowing the young trappers to develop hands-on trapping skills. 
They’re known as the Pat Arnold Youth Trapping Camps, named after their founder, and have been taking placed since 2009.

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