Mass has the boundaries wherever private land meets the WMA boundary.......and signs on the boundary are haphazzard. You have to be careful. It helps to look at sat imagery and even print the photos out on color printer and take it with you. There is plenty of WMA land in mass where you can be standing in a legal place to take a shot and see houses through the trees in the distance.
Most of the home owners know it's huntable land behind their home but every now and then you get a whiny little bitch man that has issues. Last Dec I was hunting public land that had a 5 foot chain link fence between the public and private land. I walked the length of the fence line (standing on the public side of course) to get to a spot where I wanted to push in. My gun was unloaded as I knew I was too close to the house. Whiny bitch man comes out and starts yelling "you can't hunt there it's too close to my house". I said very politely "the law says I can't discharge my fire arm within 500 feet of a house and my gun is not loaded I'm just getting from.one place to another right now". He came down off the back deck and started pounding his hands on the top of the fence screaming "you can't hunt here you can't hunt here you can't hunt here". I finally just said "I'm not hunting I am.carrying an unloaded fire arm and walking on public land have a nice day".
Some people get all worked up over nothing.