
New York Letters to the Editor: Antler restrictions take away the option to make a choice
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of New York Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of New York Outdoor News.

Here we are, heading for late November, and the firearms season has just begun throughout most of the state. With thousands of New York hunters searching for deer, it’s important to be reminded of, and

Big game season is already upon us and thousands of hunters are currently in the fields and forests of the Empire State taking advantage of the early archery season.

A few editions back our online poll queried bowhunters on what they desired to harvest for an early season deer. This included mature bucks, antlerless deer, any buck or any deer.
The results weren’t

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 14, 2025 edition of New York Outdoor News.

Hunters reading the New York 2025-26 Hunting & Trapping Regulations Guide made an interesting discovery that had not been in previously printed editions of DEC’s annual publication.
On pages 18 and 19 it says

When the question arises as to how old a youngster should be to hunt big game, the answer varies by state. Here in New York, a 12-year-old can hunt deer provided they have completed a

Tuesday, Nov. 4 is Election Day. Other than New York City, and obviously at the local and regional level, there’s not much talk about elections this year. But there is something all New Yorkers who

Concerns over the effects of spent lead ammunition prompted federal resource agencies in the United States and Canada to phase in a ban on lead shot shell ammo for waterfowl hunting starting in 1987. Now,
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