Sterling Forest State Park

[Reader Sackett]

Hi, 

 

My brother and I are first time hunters looking to bow hunt in Sterling. We have maps and know where not to hunt. We were curious about deer and bear, but also rabbit (not using a bow there lol) with a pellet gun.

 

Any advice for first time hunters?

[mowin]

@blackbeltbill. Sterling is his stopping ground. But I doubt he'll show you his best spots. Lol. 

[Reader Sackett]

Just now, mowin said:

@blackbeltbill. Sterling is his stopping ground. But I doubt he'll show you his best spots. Lol. 

Nah that would take the fun out of exploring the place for myself.

[Versatile Hunter]

Sterling is great. I’ll offer 2 FYIs before bill jumps in

1- you can’t early bear hunt in September there

2- careful if you take a dog, it’s teeming with rattlesnakes 

[Reader Sackett]

8 minutes ago, Versatile Hunter said:

Sterling is great. I’ll offer 2 FYIs before bill jumps in

1- you can’t early bear hunt in September there

2- careful if you take a dog, it’s teeming with rattlesnakes 

Oh yeah were going in Oct and no dogs right now. 

[Versatile Hunter]

2 more:

3- they release pheasants there

4- you need a sterling permit to hunt 

[Reader Sackett]

2 hours ago, Versatile Hunter said:

2 more:

3- they release pheasants there

4- you need a sterling permit to hunt 

Yeah i mailed out my form yesterday for the permit. 

 

I'm down for pheasant. 

[blackbeltbill]

5 hours ago, Versatile Hunter said:

Sterling is great. I’ll offer 2 FYIs before bill jumps in

1- you can’t early bear hunt in September there

2- careful if you take a dog, it’s teeming with rattlesnakes 

Especially  Eagle Valley.

[2BuckBizCT]

PARKING! In Sterling, you gotta get the parking spot first. Then when you get the parking spot, you get the deer. Then when you get the deer, then you get the women.

[blackbeltbill]

5 hours ago, Reader Sackett said:

Hi, 

 

My brother and I are first time hunters looking to bow hunt in Sterling. We have maps and know where not to hunt. We were curious about deer and bear, but also rabbit (not using a bow there lol) with a pellet gun.

 

Any advice for first time hunters?

I am not much into the Deer or Black Bear Hunting.  I see both species plenty while Hiking.

  I have seen both Black Bears and other times " their #2 Sign" up on Indian Hill and close to the Appalachian  Trail.I remember thick/ low Huckleberry  patches that those Black Bears like.

  I have seen Bear up near the Fire Towerin years past. Lumbering around the Blue Lake Area on the Woods Roads.

 Deer in the same areas . -- Luck out there.

[ATbuckhunter]

7 minutes ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

PARKING! In Sterling, you gotta get the parking spot first. Then when you get the parking spot, you get the deer. Then when you get the deer, then you get the women.

Thats stewart. I don't think sterling has those requirements

[2BuckBizCT]

7 minutes ago, ATbuckhunter said:

Thats stewart. I don't think sterling has those requirements

oh lol. whoops

[Phantom]

4 hours ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

oh lol. whoops

Nice place to hike; I've talked to the head guy there a few times. He is a bow hunter, and he told me he doesn't like the gun hunters that go there too many, he said. He shared a few spots where he hunts because he has the keys to the place, so he  can just drive up to it, but he mentioned that walking there would be tough.  Anyway not a place I go to hunt but I have hike there before  I've gotten the permit a few times and then I never got around to hunting that place because I just know other places closer more remote less people to hunt then that .

[ChevyZr297]

Bill is spot on with the areas he mentioned and the game spotted.

 

[grampy]

11 hours ago, Versatile Hunter said:

Sterling is great. I’ll offer 2 FYIs before bill jumps in

1- you can’t early bear hunt in September there

2- careful if you take a dog, it’s teeming with rattlesnakes 

Lot's of rattlesnakes?? Hmmmmm.......