Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors O.T. Up-State New York information Please.

I should say so! Hopefully you can avoid the city!

Terrific opportunity.. One of the prettiest, and most remote places in the country.. People spend a lot of money out West, when you can hunt a 6 million acre park in NY, with bigger whitetails for $140.... NR.. Besides the 99 is the deer rifle of the Adirondacks!

No such luck, have to go to downtown Manhattan all the way to Montauk. I grew up in southern PA in a county that still only has two stoplights. NYC is a mind numbing proposition for this bumpkin. You're right, the 99 is a popular rifle in the 'dacks about like the Amish automatic or Pennsylvania gatling gun Remington 760 is back home lol.

Many of my years were spent in Delhi, so a drive to New Paltz to visit friends was a common thing for me back then. Spent many a night on that campus. I was even a member of their fencing club though I wasn't a student! Not really sure how that happened.

Ah, montauk. I miss hiking there. Ever stay at the hotel at the top?

Little known fact........some of the biggest bucks in NY live in Montauk. Munsta bucks.

Used to bump into two guys from Texas that came there to hunt for a week every year.

Only problem is you literally need permission to hunt in somebodies back yard.

I have a good friend at Debar Lodge. Paul Smiths College is right there too.

If he will be working in the Adirondack park he will need to find a place pretty local as the park is big enough he can't commute from one side to the other.

I would suggest taking a peek at Craigslist just to see what rooms/apartments run.

The last 10 years or so we have had very mild winters and the old days of -30F have seemed to have mostly vanished, but who knows with the weather, maybe next year will be the bad one.

If a person is lucky enough to find good work, the park has got a lot to offer for an outdoors person. Fishing/hiking/hunting/ rock and ice climbing and its not really that far from city stuff if you need a change of pace. If he can bring a kyack with him he can fish and paddle some fine back country.

NYC is maybe 3/4 hours from the southern park and if your on the east side Burlington is a cool (but liberal) small city.

Land and rent goes cheap around here compared to other parts of the state. Cold, black flies, snow, vs. Remote, hunting, fishing.
My GUESS on rent, $550.00 might get a trailer or decent apartment.

[off season nightlife entertainment will be the bowling alley, pub and laundrymat]

And watching garbage dump bears.......

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If he ends up somewhere near a prison he might be able to find an apartment he could split with someone. I know a bunch of cagekickers who don't live near the prison so they will split apartments with a few other guys and stay there over their rotation then go home for their days off.

I lived in upstate NY for almost 20 years; 3 years in Vermont before that. Hunting is excellent; fishing is better.

Being a backcountry LEO is kinda hairy there, but where isn't it? When I was working at U Idaho many years ago I read in the FBI Uniform Crime Report that the LEO most likely to be assaulted with a deadly weapon was a federal game warden in Idaho. I bet New York was a close second to Idaho. Bear poaching; big business. And then there's the Canadian border and all the "entrepreneurs" along it.... a new Indian war never off the table up there.

That said, he will have more problems with his own state bureaucracy than with felons. Working with NYS is an education in itself! Housing, in this economy, should not be a problem. And he needs to keep his eyes open for 99s and other Savages, for sure. Just got a pristine 2400 from a guy in Plattsburg (not a bad town, by the way, and if he wants outstanding girls, he can weekend in Montreal!).

Tnx Fellas for the Input.
Steve