What Animals Can You Hunt In New York

Hunting Hours

Big game hunting hours are ane/2-hour before sunrise to ½-hour later on sunset (meet Sunrise & Sunset). Sunday hunting is allowed in all areas of New York. For hunting on country lands ostend regulations for the area earlier hunting.

Fluorescent Orange & Fluorescent Pink Clothing Requirements

Whatsoever person hunting deer or conduct with a firearm or a person who is accompanying someone hunting deer or bear with a firearm shall wear:

a minimum total of two hundred l square inches of solid fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink fabric worn above the waist and visible from all directions; or
a minimum total of two hundred 50 square inches of patterned fluorescent orangish or fluorescent pinkish consisting of no less than l percent fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink worn in a higher place the waist and visible from all directions; or
a lid or cap with no less than 50 percent of the exterior consisting of solid fluorescent orange or fluorescent pinkish textile and visible from all directions.

Legally Antlered Deer

A legally antlered deer must take at to the lowest degree ane antler that is iii" or longer. Antlerless deer are those without antlers (does and fawns) and deer with antlers less than 3" long. Special regulations apply in the Antler Brake areas. Encounter Big Game Boundary Description/Legal Implements for details.

Defining "Early" and "Late" Seasons for Deer and Conduct

When you lot see the term "early" muzzleloader or bowhunting season, it means before the regular flavor for that particular zone. "Late" means after the regular flavour for that zone.

Feeding & Baiting Prohibited

Intentional feeding or baiting of deer or acquit is prohibited at all times of year. This includes use of mineral blocks or powders. Exempt activities include agricultural plantings, wild fauna food plots, and cutting of trees or brush to provide winter forage.

CWD Import Restrictions

Hunters are prohibited from returning to New York with whole carcasses or intact heads of deer, elk, moose, or caribou that they harvest anywhere outside of New York. But the deboned meat, cleaned skull cap, antlers with no mankind adhering, raw or processed cape or hibernate, cleaned teeth or lower jaw, and finished taxidermy products of CWD-susceptible animals may exist brought into New York. Meet Chronic Wasting Illness for more data.

Manner of Taking

Big game may be taken with centerfire rifles, shotguns, handguns, muzzleloading firearms, bows, and crossbows during appropriate seasons and in areas designated (see maps, Big Game Boundary Description/Legal Implements and Deer Hunting Season Dates). Yous may use decoys, calls and attractant scents to hunt large game.

It is unlawful to:

Take big game while the deer or deport is in h2o.
Possess a firearm of any description when bowhunting or accompanying a person bowhunting during bowhunting seasons.
Possess a firearm other than a muzzleloading firearm when hunting deer or bear or when accompanying a person hunting deer or bear during a muzzleloading flavor.
Make, set or use salt licks or other attractants, whether block, liquid or powder that contains Whatsoever amount of salt, upon lands inhabited by deer or conduct at whatever time of year.

In addition to the full general hunting regulations for manner of accept listed on General Hunting Regulations, information technology is unlawful to hunt big game with:

Dogs or aircraft of whatsoever kind, including drones.
The help of a pre-established allurement pile.
A firearm or bow aided by any bogus calorie-free or a laser that projects a beam toward the target (use of illuminated reticle scopes, red dot scopes, or illuminated sight pins is allowed, provided no light is projected toward the target).
An autoloading firearm with a capacity of more than 6 shells (one which requires that the trigger be pulled separately for each shot), except an autoloading pistol with a barrel length of less than 8 inches.
A firearm using rimfire ammunition.
A shotgun of less than twenty gauge or any shotgun loaded with shells other than those conveying a single projectile (rifling in the barrel or choke is allowed).
A bow with a draw weight less than 35 lbs.
Arrows with spinous broadheads; arrowheads less than 7/8 inches at the widest point or with less than two sharp cutting edges.
Double-barreled muzzleloaders or percussion cap revolvers during the special muzzleloading seasons.
An air gun or air bow.

Deer Direction Focus Area

See www.december.ny.gov/outdoor/82382.html for information on the Deer Management Focus Surface area in Tompkins Canton. Expanded antlerless pocketbook limits and a January antlerless season in this area provide additional opportunities for hunters and help to reduce deer-related conflicts.

Long Island Opportunities

All hunting on land-managed country requires a DEC let. The archery deer season runs from Oct through January. There is a Jan firearms season during which shotguns and muzzleloading firearms can be used. Firearms users must obtain a landowner's endorsement to hunt during this flavor, and may also need a town permit. For more information on LI hunting opportunities visit our website, http://world wide web.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/8373.html.

Prohibited Auction of Deer or Conduct Meat

Information technology is unlawful to sell deer or acquit meat. Other than meat, the parts (e.g., hides, skulls, claws, antlers, and taxidermy mounts or rugs) from legally taken and reported deer and conduct may exist sold. Bear gallbladders and bile shall not be possessed or sold unless a valid bear tag (original or re-create) is attached.

Meat Unfit for Consumption

If a deer, bear, or turkey is found to exist unfit for human consumption, a special permit may be issued that allows the hunter to take another deer, bear, or turkey, provided the season is still open. The entire beast, including the antlers, must be forfeited to become a permit. A permit will non exist issued if the meat is unfit due to hunter neglect. Phone call a Regional Wildlife or Police Enforcement role listed on Important Numbers.

Tagging, Reporting and Transporting

Deer and conduct are in legal possession but when tagged with the appropriate carcass tag, valid for that season, implement, and sex of fauna. See Deer Tag Descriptions for clear tag descriptions.

Hunters who take a deer in remote areas may wish to bone it out and pack out the meat. This is lawful but you must retain the carcass tag with the boned out meat.

Tagging and Reporting

After killing a deer or bear:

Ensure that y'all select the proper tag for the harvested deer or deport.
Immediately fill in all information and sign the carcass tag with ink that won't erase.
Immediately cut or mark the calendar month and date of kill on the tag reverse.
Write the date of kill on the report panel. This will help you when reporting a harvest.
Attach the tag to the carcass upon arrival at your camp, home or vehicle. You lot do not demand to attach the tag while it is being dragged or physically carried from the place of kill to a camp or indicate where transportation is available.
Report your harvest online, by phone or mobile app inside 7 days as required past law. Run across Game Harvest Reporting for details.

After you have used your concluding deer tag, y'all may help others chase deer. You lot must have your hunting license with you, and y'all may non shoot or attempt to shoot a deer.

Transporting

Deer and bear may be transported either inside or outside the vehicle.

A deer carcass with head and deer carcass tag attached may be transported with the taker in attendance.
If someone other than the taker is transporting the deer or bear, the taker must attach an boosted tag to the carcass and include the names and addresses of both the taker and the transporter. The tag may be handwritten in ink or typed on whatsoever newspaper.
All portions of deer or bear meat existence transported past the taker shall be individually tagged and the tags shall include the name, address, big game Physician #, the date that the portions were cut, and the signature of the taker. Packaged or boxed portions of venison need only 1 tag and must be labeled "venison" on the outside of the box. If someone other than the taker is transporting the portions, an additional tag signed by the taker with the names and addresses of the consignee and taker are required for each portion.
Non-resident hunters: If your home state prohibits the importation of whole deer carcasses from New York, you will need to follow the above guidelines for transportation of individual or packaged portions of deer meat while in New York Land.
A deer carcass minus the head may exist transported as above, but evidence of the sexual activity of the deer must be intact. The deer carcass tag must exist affixed to the carcass, and a tag supplied by the taker must too be fastened showing the name and address of the taxidermist where the head was sent.
Heads of male deer may be transported to a taxidermist simply if a tag supplied by the taker is attached bearing the taker's signature, address, big game Medico #, number of points on each antler and the name and address of the taxidermist.
The caput of a doe with antlers that are 3 inches or more can be removed for mounting. Follow the aforementioned procedure that you would use for a buck you are having mounted (run into above).

Muzzleloader Hunting

Muzzleloading firearms may be used during the muzzleloader and regular seasons, and during the January Firearms flavour on Long Island.

Hunters must possess a current muzzleloader privilege to participate during the muzzleloader seasons.
The muzzleloader privilege is not needed for hunters to use a muzzleloading firearm during regular seasons.
Muzzleloaders may non be used in WMUs 3S, 4J, 8C, and may only be used in 1C during the Special Firearms flavour in January.
Bow/Muzz either-sexual activity or antlerless-only tags may non be used during the regular seasons, except in WMUs 1C and 3S.
Hunters participating in the muzzleloader flavour shall not take in their possession, or exist accompanied by a person who has in his or her possession, a bow or firearm other than a legal muzzleloading firearm or crossbow.

Bowhunting

Bowhunting opportunities include both the bowhunting and regular seasons:

Hunters must possess a current bowhunting or junior bowhunting privilege to participate during the bowhunting seasons.
The bowhunting privilege is not required to hunt with a bow during regular seasons, merely hunters must possess proof of eligibility (either a valid bowhunter teaching certificate or prior bowhunting license).
Bow/Muzz either-sex or antlerless-only tags may not exist used during the regular seasons except by junior bowhunters or in WMUs 1C and 3S.
In WMUs 4J and 8C, just bows may exist used to take deer during the regular and bowhunting seasons.
Suffolk (WMU 1C) and Westchester (WMU 3S) counties have separate regular seasons restricted to bows for taking deer.

Crossbow Use

Crossbow opportunities include portions of bow seasons in addition to muzzleloader and regular seasons:

Crossbows may be used to have deer during muzzleloader seasons and a portion of the early bow seasons (see maps on Deer Hunting Season Dates and Bear Hunting) by hunters with a valid hunting or junior hunting (ages 12-15 simply) license and a electric current muzzleloader privilege. Junior hunters (ages 14-fifteen) may also take deport with crossbows during these seasons.
Crossbows may be used to take deer during the regular season by hunters with a valid hunting or junior hunting (ages 12-xv) license and to take behave during the early bear during early bear and regular seasons by hunters with a valid hunting or junior hunting (ages 14-xv only) license.
Meet Crossbow Hunting Data for the required Crossbow Document of Qualification. The NYS Legislature does non permit all crossbows to exist used to chase big game in NY. See General Hunting Regulations for the definition of a legal crossbow.

Spinous Broadheads

Spinous broadheads are illegal for hunting big game. A barbed broadhead is 1 in which the angle formed between the trailing or rear edge of any blade and the shaft is less than 90 degrees. A notch at the base of the bract extending no more than than two millimeters from the shaft shall non be considered a barb. Broadheads with mechanical blades are legal if the blades Practise Not form a barb or hook when the arrow is pulled from the mankind of a deer or acquit. (Meet graphic on beneath.)

Broadheads for Large Game
Type	Legal	Illegal
Fixed Blade
Mechanical Bract (shown in position of being withdrawn from an animate being)	Blades pivot forward (no longer barbed)	Blades do not pivot (remain spinous)