Next season, like most years, I'll be hunting on my own land. I have a few other options, mostly very local to me. One place I go is a huge (by New England standards) hayfield a few miles away. My friend hunts there and he's older, and not in the best of health, so if he gets one I need to be there to help get it out. I usually hunt there when he's hunting so who ever gets one has the other person to lend a hand. Another place I hope to hunt is a nearby 7,000 acre working forest preserve that contains some spectacular wild country. They have a lottery and let a few lucky hunters in every season--each person gets a 600 acre area to themselves. I also have contacts in the Adirondacks near Ticonderoga, NY, but it seems odd to go all the way up there where the deer are scarce, when I have so many options at home where there are lots of deer. Beautiful country in the Adirondacks, though.
