It’s not too late to get in some prime time scouting for the general statewide opener that commences half-hour before sunrise on Saturday, September 29.
When a hunting season opens in New Jersey, it is indeed a Happy New Year and cause for celebration of the beginning of the autumn and winter harvest periods.
The statewide snow goose season draws to a close at sunset next Thursday, February 15, and the action picks up again a half-hour before sunrise Friday, February 16 as the Light Goose Conservation “season” kicks in and runs through Saturday, April 7.
It’s “shed season”, that special time from late January through the first hints of spring in early March when slow, probing walks afield, eyes judiciously scanning the field and forest floors, reveal the discarded headgear of whitetail bucks.
No doubt about it: the two-week deep freeze will certainly make the winter archery deer season live up to its reputation as the most challenging hunting period of the calendar year.