He was on the fringe of a NY Department of Environmental Conservation land.
He was scouting from his truck. Perfectly legal and reasonable.
I know in New Jersey, if you have permission of the property owner its game. Right up to property line for bow hunting.
In NJ rifles are not permitted for hunting; shotgun and bow only.
I believe in NY outside of city limits rifle use is permitted.
One time in Woodatock, GA were hunting water fowl on a private pasture. Some jerk 100 yards away in a McMansiom neighborhood and his kid shot fireworks at us. The game warden who was probably called by someone in that neighborhood saw them harassing us.
The father got cited for harassment.
He had the attitude as this jerk in LI.
Thank you for clearing this up.
Same here in the bottom half of Michigan, Zone 3. Last year a friend who lives about 45 miles north of me in a rural area shot a nice 8 pt. buck from a blind literally 100 yds. from the back of his house with a crossbow. Went back to garage, got his ATV, drove out and hauled it back to his garage and hoisted it up with a trolly and dressed it.
Then last week, another friend who lives in an upscale small wooded are in Troy showed me a photo he took with his phone of two bucks in his back yard the prior week.. One was a 10 pointer and the other was an 8. He was on his back deck and they were about 30 ft. from him just looking at him.........LOL!