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Pheasant season eve
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Easy there Rudolph
Pafanasiev
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There are more out west, don’t you worry
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If we shoot all the peasants who will till the soil?
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Hopefully going to get out next week.
No, just trolling the issue in Mass, LOL. Ridiculous law, but we can't get rid of it.
Our club does occasionally get special permits for Sunday hunts, with a good number of extra birds stocked. We'll have a big youth hunt on a Sunday, as usual.
smokey-seven
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You can always travel to Lawrence.
You'll hear a dog fight soon.....trust me.
Then two hunters will be yelling at each other because the "untrained mutt" is interfering with some snobs trained pointer.
It's a circus every year. That's why I'm home sipping coffee. I'll be out in the woods later this afternoon.
smokey-seven
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Yea I am so over WMA's and opening day as well as weekends. Best day to hunt a WMA is on a Monday after a weekend of hard rain.
Gave the WMA a try yesterday AM. A friend lives on the border of our local stocked WMA so she lets me park there.
I had a area to myself for about 15 minutes, then the orange army showed up. Ended up hunting the outer end of the WMA in some real thick stuff that no ones else hunts, hoping to find into some woodcock or a wandering pheasant. Ended up getting into woodcock... missed a couple shots I feel I should have made.
Either way was a good time.... should be out again early this week.
I had a area to myself for about 15 minutes, then the orange army showed up. Ended up hunting the outer end of the WMA in some real thick stuff that no ones else hunts, hoping to find into some woodcock or a wandering pheasant. Ended up getting into woodcock... missed a couple shots I feel I should have made.
Either way was a good time.... should be out again early this week.
boilermaker
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Our club hosted a Wounded Warrior event this past Saturday. We had trap, indoor archery, fishing, and bird hunting available to all. I only took out one group, a pair of brothers, but the club was stocked heavy with birds and I was super proud of my Molly dog. The guys had an absolute fantastic time; I was hesitant to help guide but so glad I did. So no Mass opener for us but we'll be out there soon enough. (I am the guy without birds)
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Dennis in MA
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I was at the opening at the WMA in Norton several years back. It was a S-show, but a POLITE S-show. No dogs fighting. People respected each other's space. Only real issue was the tool that shot a bird out of a tree and the License Police being a general dink. Oh, and 183,000 hunters for 10-15 birds.
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Went to my local club who stocks and our group got one bird a piece. Took my son on a cleanup hunt this morning and he got a rooster and missed one.
I maybe would have got the one he missed but wanted him to shoot.
Was nice to get one with the 20 gauge model 37 I refinished last year.
ill hit the WMA down the street wed afternoon
I maybe would have got the one he missed but wanted him to shoot.
Was nice to get one with the 20 gauge model 37 I refinished last year.
ill hit the WMA down the street wed afternoon
I'm a personal fan of the club 'clean up' hunts. Planning on one in a week. On my way to work in French wine country this week, so outside of the daily grind I'll be hunting the bottom of a bottle or two.
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Thats where the dog comes in handy.
Our group unleashed on a long sky high bird Saturday. We didnt even think we hit it. Until my dog came back with it in her mouth.
Thats happened more than once a season. She’s tenacious on wounded birds
