This week I've been hunting bear and deer at Wildcat Ridge WMA in Rockaway, and Black River WMA in Chester. I've seen plenty of hunters, but not one animal nut.
I've seen no bear or deer either, unfortunately.
I believe NJ Freeper was up at Hamburg Mountain WMA in Vernon, and didn't see any ALF thugs protesting. Maybe he can confirm.
I'm going to Wawayanda next week for deer, so maybe I'll run into these folks in the woods.
I had done a lot of scouting early in the year and had picked out a bit of terrain a mile or so off the road on federal land. It was my first time up there in NJ so I thought I was OK. Dawn on opening day coming into me from the windward side was a 450+lb male (the very one I had scouted and put myself in position for) he was lumbering along taking no notice of me 35 feet up in my stand. When he was about 150 yards out (in hail mary range for my smoothbore but outside my effective range) another hunter crossed about 50 feet in front of me spooking him.
I had done everything right except I underestimated the size of the crowd. Had I know they would be hiking in that far I would have set up another 1/2 mile or so further in and would have gotten him.
Oh well.