Your Christmas Wish List To DEC
New York
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With it being holiday time....state the top three changes you would like from DEC for Christmas. Here are mine:
1) go back to one buck per year.
2) shorten the regular gun season.
3) pass new trespassing laws that have teeth and aren't a complete joke like they are now.
Shorten the gun season to 2 wks.Put the third week to an early black powder season.
Make that a traditional black powder season,no inlines.Also allow recurves and longbows in that week.Make it a traditional week.
I will throw in my vote for shortening the Gun season and would like to see spotlighting eliminated as well.
- 1 buck per hunter per year.
- Move archery season opener back to Oct. 15. Early Oct is for fall turkey.
- Up to date posting on the DEC website of all nuisance deer permit holders, all DMAP permit holders, number of permits issued and number and sex of deer taken on those permits.
1 Buck Get the guns out of the rut 2 week gun season All day Spring turkey hunts, This noon stop time is ridiculous
How about this: One buck per year. Shorten the Regular Season to 2 weeks, not during the rut. Enforce and really hurt poachers and tresspassers with heavy fines and hunting rights loss. But hey,, while we're really dreaming,, how about: Getting rid of nuisance and crop damage permits. Antler restrictions, 3 points on one side. Allow baiting for bear. Get rid of the SAFE Act. Split NY into two separate states, New York and North York. As far as for the national level,, follow the Constitution and fire every politician who doesn't... Just a thought. :-) Jay
JayG, we have to meet someday, lol!
1) Assign a penalty to not reporting takes via DECALS (they obviously have no idea how many deer there at @ each DMU)
2) Kill the nuisance permits. Or do SOMETHING different.
3) Push xbows to gun season where they belong.
4) lengthen the late bow season. Why cut it off, I don't get that???
I'm fine with the seasons as-are. I'm a gun nut, but hunt strictly with bow, except for one property that the landowner requires that I use the rifle (almost no deer there so I never get one… neighbor is drunk on nuisance permits…)
Bow shot,i agree,lengthen the late bow season till the end of January.
I'd go back to recurve for your idea NYGRIZ. Maybe stick to it all year.
I agree, 1 buck per year. I know a few different guys who killed multiple racked bucks just in bow season... Pisses me off, maybe I'll start turning them in next year. They are happy to shoot whatever buck that comes by then later on a bigger buck comes by and they shoot him to. I think if you need the meat then kill does.
1. Start listening to us hunters, trappers,fisherman, hikers,campers etc. about what should be done.
2.Have some state land areas bow only now I'm talking rural stateland, unlike what already exists.
3. Hire more DEC officers per unit so we can eliminate the b/s that goes on utilizing stiffer penalties.
1) One buck (or earn a buck)
2) Shorten gun season
3) treat deer like a resource instead of a nuisance
I would like gun season cut to two weeks and start a week later to miss most of the rut in the southern zone. Take the inlines out of any muzzleloader season. I use mine in regular season !
Two buck limit stays but only on DMUs with high deer numbers and the least amount of public land.
Stop all deer drives on state lands under 1000 acres.