It was my only time and a complete s-show.
I'm not a fan in the first place. Pheasant aren't native nor are they releasing them to create habitat. They all get eated by wildlife or shot. So effectively WMA pheasant hunts in MA are just hunting welfare. I'm against welfare in principal for the most part, so I have a hard time supporting it in any way, shape or form.
Then you get the 500 trucks of guys for 6 or 8 birds.
It was a fun traipse around the mgmt preserve in Norton, tho.
THEN you get the dink Northwoods Law guys. Hey dude - go F yourself. "Everyone must have a hunting lic, driver's lic and FID/LTC." Uhhh, so if I was taking my son so he could watch, I'd be F'd. So much for "we see you doing something, we prosecute." Now we're down to "well, we can't be there, so we'll just assume you are wrong and ticket you." Guy was a total d-bag. Somehow in his mad dash to go truck-to-truck, he missed me. I had all my permits and such, but I was glad to not have to go through his BS.
Buddy told me a few years prior there was this female officer who was even WORSE. She got stuck in the mud and had the audacity to ask for help. No one helped. She F'd them. They F'd her right back.
If I really really really really wanna go pheasant hunting, I'll spend the $ to go to Addeville East. Hell, I don't even have a dog!