jamz
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Is there any "plain english" giude to what you can hunt when?
I've been pouring over the Mass hunting regulation for the last YEAR, and I consider myself pretty good at reading legalese. However, there are always suprises. I was all set to go squirrel hunting with my .22, then I read that rifles and handguns are not permitted in the eastern part of the state for squirrel. So I borrow a 20 ga from my brother in law, and get ready to go out. I call the wildlife division to make sure I can use a shotgun, because there is a regulation that I find that says it is illegal to posess any shotgun shell whatsoever unless it's shotgun deer season.
They tell me that it's illegl to hunt anything other than deer during deer season. I can't find a reference to that anywhere in the regs at all!! It's getting to the point where I have no idea what to do now, except to go out and hunt deer, which I'm not prepared to do by myself yet because I want to field dress it with a more experienced person.
So are there any MA hunters out there that can give a plain, straightforward version of when I can hunt squirrels? And with what?
I've been pouring over the Mass hunting regulation for the last YEAR, and I consider myself pretty good at reading legalese. However, there are always suprises. I was all set to go squirrel hunting with my .22, then I read that rifles and handguns are not permitted in the eastern part of the state for squirrel. So I borrow a 20 ga from my brother in law, and get ready to go out. I call the wildlife division to make sure I can use a shotgun, because there is a regulation that I find that says it is illegal to posess any shotgun shell whatsoever unless it's shotgun deer season.
They tell me that it's illegl to hunt anything other than deer during deer season. I can't find a reference to that anywhere in the regs at all!! It's getting to the point where I have no idea what to do now, except to go out and hunt deer, which I'm not prepared to do by myself yet because I want to field dress it with a more experienced person.
So are there any MA hunters out there that can give a plain, straightforward version of when I can hunt squirrels? And with what?