Lack Of Shooting/Hunters Is OK With Me

[BHC]

I'm ok with the lack of shooting and hunters in the woods, if the deer survive this week there is a very good chance they will be survive till next season, and that means more bucks and they will just be bigger.

[230jhp]

Yesterday morning there were about six shots audible from where I was in the Watershed just south of Clinton reservoir.

Sunday I was scouting in Waywayanda. There were at least four other vehicles scouting in the Moe Mountain area. Thats why I went to the Watershed instead.

This afternoon I went to Demons Alley in the Watershed. No one else was hunting there.

Tomorrow AM I'm going back by the reservoir. In the afternoon I'm going to check out Cedar Swamp in Waywayanda. I haven't hunted there in years.

[Dominant buck]

Same here. Its just strange when you see the parking lots with only a couple of trucks in them. Compared to years ago when they where packed.

 

 

[Mixbaghunter]

I think people hunt all week there  was more guts at my spot today then yesterday  2 single  shots. one mu buddy who scored one when we where at trucks. Its a long season people are  spead out more better and safer

[20a]

Opening day bow was PACKED -- I wonder if we as hunters have a sudden influx of younger hunters, able to buy and bow but not yet a gun OR if people are going strictly archery?  Who knows...

Small sample size, based off where I hunt in NJ. 

[ratherbhunting]

I heard a lot of shooting the last half hour of shooting time yesterday, but over all not a lot of shots yesterday and only a couple today.

[6.5 Swede]

Heard a single shot this afternoon, shortly before sundown.  Another guy, hunting across the road, drove over and offered assistance, thinking I had taken the shot.  Much appreciated, but it wasn't me.

No other vehicles in the area.

[BCsaw]

I'm ok with the lack of shooting and hunters in the woods, if the deer survive this week there is a very good chance they will be survive till next season, and that means more bucks and they will just be bigger.

Winter bow?
Historically, opening day has the highest bear harvest.

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[CatchinDeers243]

I thought there was supposed to be a lot more new hunters this year

[BHC]

4 minutes ago, CatchinDeers243 said:

I thought there was supposed to be a lot more new hunters this year

Yeah on Playstation/Xbox

[jumpthestring]

I think now a days there are more bow hunters than gun hunters..

[_X7]

The introduction of the crossbow and the length of the archery seasons has to have an impact. There will be those who deny it, but every since the rules came into play the herds have been thinning. Remember all parts of New Jersey are not equal as far as deer density goes.

 

[archer36]

1 hour ago, _X7 said:

The introduction of the crossbow and the length of the archery seasons has to have an impact. There will be those who deny it, but every since the rules came into play the herds have been thinning. Remember all parts of New Jersey are not equal as far as deer density goes.

 

Long season. Weather is much more tolerable. Crossbows changed a  lot.