So, what's next? Year round?
Daily Record (Morristown), Sept. 3, 2006
BOWHUNTERS TAKING AIM AT LARGE DEER POPULATION
By Jim Stabile
New Jersey bowhunters get the first shot at the state's estimated
150,000 deer this Saturday.The statewide deer population peaks before
hunters start whittling it down in various seasons that extend all the
way to Feb. 17 in some zones. Fall bowhunting accounted for 14,040 of
the 59,657 deer killed in all the bowhunting and firearms seasons that
started with archers last September and ended in February.
For the first time, changes in a new game code recommended by wildlife
biologists, the Division of Fish and Wildlife and the Fish and Game
Council won't go into effect this year because the code hasn't been
published and aired before final approval. See the 2006 Hunting and
Trapping issue of the Fish & Wildlife Digest or njfishandwildlife.com
for this year's regulations, which are the same as last year's, other
than dates being changed.
Hunting should be good, if you don't mind trimming shooting lanes
through the foliage, mosquitoes, warm days and aren't goose hunting,
fluke fishing, freshwater fishing with less anglers around and other
September action. And remember to be careful hunting from a treestand.
Equipment as well as the number of hunters, deer and deer management
have come a long way since our first bow season was held 50-some years
ago, when there was no muzzleloader season, only a couple of weeks of
bowhunting and not much hunting with shotguns outside of the six days
in December. Deer were as scarce in most of the state then as they are
in Zone 4 today.
Daily Record (Morristown), Sept. 3, 2006
BOWHUNTERS TAKING AIM AT LARGE DEER POPULATION
By Jim Stabile
New Jersey bowhunters get the first shot at the state's estimated
150,000 deer this Saturday.The statewide deer population peaks before
hunters start whittling it down in various seasons that extend all the
way to Feb. 17 in some zones. Fall bowhunting accounted for 14,040 of
the 59,657 deer killed in all the bowhunting and firearms seasons that
started with archers last September and ended in February.
For the first time, changes in a new game code recommended by wildlife
biologists, the Division of Fish and Wildlife and the Fish and Game
Council won't go into effect this year because the code hasn't been
published and aired before final approval. See the 2006 Hunting and
Trapping issue of the Fish & Wildlife Digest or njfishandwildlife.com
for this year's regulations, which are the same as last year's, other
than dates being changed.
Hunting should be good, if you don't mind trimming shooting lanes
through the foliage, mosquitoes, warm days and aren't goose hunting,
fluke fishing, freshwater fishing with less anglers around and other
September action. And remember to be careful hunting from a treestand.
Equipment as well as the number of hunters, deer and deer management
have come a long way since our first bow season was held 50-some years
ago, when there was no muzzleloader season, only a couple of weeks of
bowhunting and not much hunting with shotguns outside of the six days
in December. Deer were as scarce in most of the state then as they are
in Zone 4 today.
