WOODHULL LAKE, N.Y. (WKTV) - The search continues for a missing hunter in the Adirondacks.

76-year-old John Lawler of Caldwell, New Jersey has been missing since Saturday morning.

State Police investigators say he came up to the Adirondacks with four other men to hunt. They say the fivesome split up around 7:30 Saturday morning to head out on what they called an organized drive through the woods to get a lay of the land. They were supposed to all meet at a shelter near Bloodsucker Pond an hour and a half later at 9:00, but Lawler never showed up.

Sgt. Thom Haumann who was leading the command center set up at the Otter Lake firehouse says "Apparently they did a cursory search for him when they first realized he was missing, then contacted authorities to come out and help find him."

State Forest Rangers, State Troopers, local police, even volunteers from the Central Adirondack Search and Rescue Team all convened at 6 am Sunday to resume their search, after searching and coming up empty all day Saturday.

Sgt. Haumann says "From what I understand late in the day there were shots heard west of the area where he was supposed to have been hunting, no one is sure what they shots were whether they were from him, or coincidental, i think that's also providing the rangers with a focus of their search also."

Sgt. Haumann says the group will reassemble Monday morning to search for a third day.