I saw a heard of at least 20 maybe a bit more yesterday in zone 36. It was about 5:30 pm and they were feeding in the marsh. I could only get a quick peek at them before I'd miss my exit. The number of the heard was the only thing that stood out.
Deer heard in Zone 36
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I'm in Little Falls. Zone 36. Town law says no discharge of a weapon unless to protect human life or for hunting following all aplicable state rules. I suck at this hunting thing. have plenty of time to try it but no one i know hunts really. Lot of deer hit my property all the time following the ridge from Garret Mt. One day I'll get one. 
Few nice bucks in the past and does always.
Few nice bucks in the past and does always.
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I don't know who hunts in 36 or where, but if you look at the harvest stats zone 36 has as many deer taken as Zone 3 or Zone 4 both of which have plenty of public land.
I hunted High Mountain and what is now the William Paterson University property. Back then it was just the local woods. I calculated the spot where I got my first deer at age 16 it now has a dorm building there. Also it is no more than a 1/4 mile from where the Bates Sport shop is now.
I was checking out a place in Roseland along Eisenhower Parkway a couple of years ago. A small farm with corn & tomatos. Never could get someone at the farm stand that could actually give me permission. Actually I am not even certain it is zone 36.
Also there are a bunch of small tracts of public land in Chatham. A police permit is needed to hunt there. Once I meet the officer who is in charge of the permit process while turkey hunting at the watershed. He said to come in to the PD in August and he would check my bow proficiency and issue my a permit. At the time I worked near there and stopped in several times during August of that year. Every time I did he wasn't there and I finally gave up.
I hunted High Mountain and what is now the William Paterson University property. Back then it was just the local woods. I calculated the spot where I got my first deer at age 16 it now has a dorm building there. Also it is no more than a 1/4 mile from where the Bates Sport shop is now.
I was checking out a place in Roseland along Eisenhower Parkway a couple of years ago. A small farm with corn & tomatos. Never could get someone at the farm stand that could actually give me permission. Actually I am not even certain it is zone 36.
Also there are a bunch of small tracts of public land in Chatham. A police permit is needed to hunt there. Once I meet the officer who is in charge of the permit process while turkey hunting at the watershed. He said to come in to the PD in August and he would check my bow proficiency and issue my a permit. At the time I worked near there and stopped in several times during August of that year. Every time I did he wasn't there and I finally gave up.
Monsters live in Northern Bergen county but most of the towns have no discharge laws which means bow & guns. Mahwah and Oakland are the only towns where one can hunt on a piece of land that is greater than 5 acres. Everyone is right about our finest hunting the county along with a few others. There is a huge deer population which is about out of control given the increasing deer/car collisions. My shrubs and flowers have been getting devasted over the last several years!
Weird thing is that we never saw a deer back in the 70's and 80's and now they are all over.
Biggest deer I have ever seen was in Closter, NJ.
Weird thing is that we never saw a deer back in the 70's and 80's and now they are all over.
Biggest deer I have ever seen was in Closter, NJ.
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I have permission to hunt a couple zone 36 spots. They are all on private land,mostly in passaic co. and some are bow only.
Here and there you may find a management hunt that you can get a permit for but they seem to keep those real quiet. You really gotta dig deep to get a spot in 36
Here and there you may find a management hunt that you can get a permit for but they seem to keep those real quiet. You really gotta dig deep to get a spot in 36
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While building homes in Closter the fall of 1987 I saw a buck that looked like it walked down from Maine. He had a Huge body! That winter tracks were all over the job site. Never saw then during the day.
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Troy Meadows in East Hanover and Parsippany have plenty of deer and is state land in zone 36. Parsippany is no discharge..I don't know if E Hanover does. In E Hanover there are plenty of houses and cu- d-sacs adjacent to Troy Meadows I am sure residents at least bow hunt there.
They used to have some wacko group of animal rights kooks that patroled it. I have had run ins with them when I wasn't even hunting.
They made zone 6 smaller a few years ago and put the land they took off into zone 36. When I look at the zone discriptions on the DFW web site it looks like gobbly-**** to me. Does anyone know the new western boundry of zone 36 in that area? Does 36 now go as far west as Towaco?
They used to have some wacko group of animal rights kooks that patroled it. I have had run ins with them when I wasn't even hunting.
They made zone 6 smaller a few years ago and put the land they took off into zone 36. When I look at the zone discriptions on the DFW web site it looks like gobbly-**** to me. Does anyone know the new western boundry of zone 36 in that area? Does 36 now go as far west as Towaco?
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Hollowpoint ,are you talking about the swamps off of rt280 ? I got some friends that live down there in E. hanover. They own some private land along those swamps. I have scoped that property out quite a few times and found that most of it is posted "no hunting". And the signs say its a privately owned preserve. I do understand that they hold a limited hunt put on by the county parks service. Somewhere I got a pic of the posted signs. I was trying to get permission to hunt there.
And yes some of the locals do hunt it.
And yes some of the locals do hunt it.
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Most of that tract of land (and it is pretty big) is Green Acres State land. Adjacent to 280 and along Ridgedale Ave are Green Acres signs. Along Renolds Ave and Beverwyck Road there are state park signs. I have no doubt of the signs you mentioned also.
Here is a google earth of the property
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.844043,-74.366718&z=14&t=h&hl=en
There is another area called Hatfield Swamp across Rt 280 from there. Too bad we can't legally hunt in either place.
There is still another area near there mostly in Fairfield called Peace Medows. People hunt there, but I think you have to be a Fairfield resident. There are two sections one north of Horseneck Road refered to as Big Peace and south of Horseneck refered to as Little Peace. I think the residency only applies to Big Peace.
I hunted Little Peace once during winter bow. I didn't get very far into the property due to flooding.
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