Hunting

To be sure, this primary rutting period kicked in big-time a few days ago and will run through the second and maybe into the third week of November.

Actually, it’s the “Statewide Small Game Opener”, but for years, sometimes decades, there have been earlier openings for the likes of gray squirrels and cottontail rabbits.

Just gotta love October...the harvest month that keeps on giving!

Although EHD has wreaked havoc on some local herds north, central, and south, overall whitetail numbers are high.

Saturday, September 25, marks the opening of the grey squirrel and cottontail rabbit seasons, two of our favorite small game/upland quarries.

The early archery deer season going on now and through the month of October is when the ticks really seem to get at it, be it the whitetail’s hide or yours.

The statewide September Canada goose season will commence Wednesday, September 1, and run through Thursday, September 30.

Seventeen days and counting until the opening of the early archery (bow) season for New Jersey’s premier big game animal Saturday, September 11.

Love to hunt? Deer, small game, waterfowl, predators?

Announced late yesterday morning in response to rampant disregard of laws governing the 350,000-plus acres of the Garden State’s wildlife management area (WMA) system under the auspices of the Division of Fish & Wildlife, portions of five WMAs are now off limits to all public use through September 15.