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Actually hunting was always a part of the Wharton tract history and played a part in the push by the state to purchase the land. Back when the Wharton family controlled it, they issued hunting permits to anyone who wanted to hunt there. I have some old timer friends that used to get the...

Amen Wisbang. Many huggers and antis have probably never heard of the Pittman-Robertson Act adopted in 1937. It is an 11% federal tax that we as sportsmen pay that is built into the cost of every gun, every box of ammunition and every bow that is sold in this country! (And people complain...

Hunting is much more than a tool for population control. I've been a hunter for 37 of my 47 years and tagged along with my father a few years before I could legally carry a gun. I know that I have a deeper respect and understanding of the natural world than quite a few of the antis and...

My wife and I just got back from the cleanup and I think anyone who passes by Atsion within the next few days should stop and look at the amount of junk hauled out of Wharton and other local places. It is staggering. There are two full size roll-offs filled to overflowing, a mountain of tires...

Guy Did you get across Sleeper? Did you cross in the beginning using the beaver dam like you were talking about a few weeks ago? Scott

Hey Jersey Devil. How far do you guys range from Atsion for the cleanup? I live in Pestletown off Chew Road near the end of Pestletown Road where it enters Wharton State Forest. Its about 7 miles from the ranger station. The end of the road is slowly becoming a landfill. It's mostly little...

My wife and I were there. We go every year. It's always the Sunday in the third full weekend of October. It runs with the two day Chatsworth Cranberry Festival. It seems to be getting bigger every year. I am drawn to the hit and miss farm engines and the antique construction equipment and...

I am dyed-in-the-wool hunter but I have no interest in hunting bear. Never did. Where I hunt in NE Pa., bear are very common and I appreciate every opportunity I get to see them going about their business. When there is a sustainable population to hunt, I don't have a problem with a hunt. I...

I am going out on a limb here but I'll assume you have a computer since I read your post. If you use any search engine(Yahoo Google etc.) you can find the N.J. Division of Fish and Game's website. All regulations are published there. Here is a direct link to their site...

The archery deer season started a few weeks earlier in certain zones (zone 19. Medford- Tabernacle area for one) but is in statewide as of 10-2-04. I saw plenty of deer Saturday but most were small does with the young of the year. I don't need the meat that bad. I had two small bucks, a Y and...

Fall archery for deer opens today and will run to 11-27-04 with the extended permits. After that the firearm seasons for deer open and stay in until the end of January 2005. Just a reminder to everyone here that you wil be sharing the pine woods with hunters for the next few months. I am...

Amen Wis Bang. I still use my grandfather's H&R single, made in 1905, for squirrel hunting. That gun was carried by him from 1908 until he died in 1971. If that gun can't talk I don't know what can. On Thursday, as a matter of fact, I bought a new H&R single in 16 ga. to use for...

The 22nd annual Decoy and Gunning show is taking place this weekend in Tuckerton, both Saturday and Sunday. A lot of great duck hunting gear, boats and good food too. I am glad to see that after 22 years it still has a strong focus on hunting. Hunting is a heritage that is getting harder...

Guy I took a good friend of mine crabbing this weekend out of Cape May. He is 78 and he is the guy that told me they were called Wescoat's bogs. He started riding motorcycles through the pines in 1947 on 45c.i. flathead Harleys. He is still a member of South Jersey Enduro Riders. He was...

Sept. 22, 2004 Courier Post article. http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m092204b.htm

I am with Foo Foo on this one . I think we'll be seeing a new Deep Woods Off commercial come spring starring tent people with raw ankles. :P

Yes the block below the "o" in Dutchtown is the house he was referring to. If you need any help with the Atsion Quad let me know. I am pretty familiar with a good chunk of it.

Guy Did you notice that the fan shaped bogs off Sleeper show up on that '42 map? They are cross hatched just like the Rockwood bogs. I talked to my old buddy Nelson (79 years old) on Sunday at church and asked him what he remembered of Rockwood if anything. He is the caretaker of the Chew...

Not a whole lot unfortunately. I did talk to an old hunting buddy of mine a long time ago and he said the both bridges were in and driveable as late as the 1960's. Scott

Bob The still standing NJ record for pickerel is 9lbs. 3 oz. caught in Lower Aetna Lake in Medford in 1957. Another scenic spot and a great pickerel area is the Wading River on the NW shore about opposite Chip's Folly. There are a couple bogs that discharge into the Wading along that shore and...