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Yep, you are correct. Adirondaks and Catskills don't require back tag display My buddy is a DEC officer and he has told me tagging should be done immediately. You don't want the situation where a DEC officer comes upon you and an untagged animal. They deal with poachers not tagging deer all the time so they may not give you the benefit of doubt

Answers: 6). NOT LEGAL. Your deer tag must be filled out immediately before festivities begin. The law does allow for you to drag the deer to camp and then place tag on the animal but the tag has to be filled out and punched immediately.

Answers: 5). NOT LEGAL. Has to be on your back

Answers: 4). NOT LEGAL. Only family members or persons specifically given permission Can legally fire a gun within 500' of a farm building (outhouses excluded). Clear things up with the farmer beforehand.

Answers: 3). LEGAL. Use of a .22 rimfire is legal for small game even in a shotgun-only deer zone.

Answers: 2). LEGAL. You can hunt with a bow during gun season.....you can hunt with a gun....you can hunt with both during GUN season. You cannot hunt with both during archery season.

Answers: 1). LEGAL. As long as you don't shoot from the car (non-handicapped) or shoot towards or across a road. You could shoot two feet off the shoulder as long as you are shooting away from it. This one causes a lot of phone calls to DEC officers to investigate by concerned neighbors.

Ok ......without looking up regulations in DEC handbook see how you would answer these.

6). You just downed a beauty of a buck. Excited, you pull out your cell phone and immediately start snapping pictures of your buck to send them to your buddies. After receiving your texts, your buddy shows up to the kill sight and shares in the celebration with backslapping and more pictures. Next, you pull out your hunting knife, gut the deer and fill out the tag. You place the tag securely on the buck's leg with a zip tie. ARE YOU LEGAL?

5). You just bought a new Gore-Tex jacket. Unfortunately, the jacket did not come with rivets to put your backtag thru. Not wanting to put a hole in your new jacket, you decide to pin it to your backpack. LEGAL?

4). Luck has found you. After knocking on some farmer's doors, you have secured permission to hunt a farm loaded with deer. The farmer is not one for words and merely muttered "you can hunt the farm." On your first hunt on the farm you are on your way out to the hardwood block out back. As you pass the last barn building you are surprised to see a nice shooter buck standing broadside in the middle of a field 100 yards away. A chip shot. You take a knee, take a deep breath and pull the trigger slowly on the end of your exhale position. The buck drops in its tracks. ARE YOU LEGAL?

3). You have been scouting squirrels in an area near Rochester where hunting is legal. You have tagged out opening day of deer gun season but you want to still spend time in the woods so Thanksgiving morning you decide to take your .22 rimfire in the woods to get some squirrels for the stew pot. ARE YOU LEGAL?

2). You have decided you don't want to risk spooking a buck on opening day of gun season. Your plan is to take both your gun and bow into your stand with the idea of quietly shooting any does that come by with an arrow while having the security of having the gun handy if a buck comes by. ARE YOU LEGAL?

1). You pull up to your hunting lease land. You look across a field and see a nice buck standing broadside 100 yards away tending a doe. You decide he is a shooter. You pull your car over off on the shoulder of the road and turn it off. Quiet as possible you slide out of the car, open the back door to access your gun. You remove the gun from it's case, load it, and take 10 steps 90 degrees away from the road towards the deer. You take a knee and are shocked to find the deer is still standing there. You squeeze the trigger and watch the buck take it's death march dying within sight. WERE YOU LEGAL?

Fort Niagara launch is $8.00. Youngstown launch is free unless they changed something.

Yes I have run the small sized ones in spring along shore and the coho liked them.

Nice. Thanks for sharing.