Jack McShane

ADVENTURES UP A TREE - Opening Day of Bow Season

ADVENTURES UP A TREE – Opening Day of Bow Season

The morning of opening day emerged clear, cool with the threat of rain and snow in the afternoon. Undaunted, I packed my thermos of hot coffee, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and my bow and headed up the mountain to my favorite tree stand.

“BAG LADIES” OF TREMPERSKILL ROAD

By Jack McShane
With input from Nancy McShane and Ann Roberti.
You might have observed two, my wife Nancy and our friend Ann Roberti of Dingle Hill, doing what they would like others to do, picking up accumulated trash along the Tremperskill Road filling large plastic bags. Hence the name “bag ladies”.

THE ELUSIVE TURKEYS

THE ELUSIVE TURKEYS

By Jack McShane
Our intrepid hunter goes home empty-handed

ANTLER RESTRICTIONS

ANTLER RESTRICTIONS

By Jack McShane
Tremperskill Hunting and Fishing Club

For deer hunters there now stands a rule that for a buck to be lega.lly shot it must have one antler at least 3″ long.

COYOTES AND MORE

COYOTES AND MORE

By Jack McShane
There has been a lot of interest in the increasing population of coyotes in our area and in the Northeast in general. They now populate the whole area both rural and suburban excluding Long Island, and I predict that area will eventually host them.