Mass Bucks
#31
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Allston MA USA
Posts: 533
RE: Mass Bucks
Gerat deer there WMH....you saw my 2005 buck already on the other thread. The rest of my MA deer pics I do not have scanned, but they where taken years ago.
I like your pics especially, since you hunt west MA like me.
My buddy did take a small 6pt and a doe in Richmond, MA in 2002, and a BB in 2003. But sorry, no digi pics.
I like your pics especially, since you hunt west MA like me.
My buddy did take a small 6pt and a doe in Richmond, MA in 2002, and a BB in 2003. But sorry, no digi pics.
#34
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Allston MA USA
Posts: 533
RE: Mass Bucks
ORIGINAL: ntcbassman
question about western mass hunting... why is the deer population lower in western mass??? i would think it would be higher than "back east".
any thoughts?
question about western mass hunting... why is the deer population lower in western mass??? i would think it would be higher than "back east".
any thoughts?
Winters are also allot harsher than compared to eastern MA. Colder and longer, plus more snow usually. And if there is no browse near the yarding areas that cuts them down. Add crust to the deep snow and you geta coyote feed fest.
Its funny too..back in the day most deer hunters drove west to hunt the Berks or CT river valley. You had a hard time getting a hotel room the night before opening day of gun season! Not anymore...
there are still some great areas with good amounts of deer, especially in zone 3, but allot of it is private.
East, MAhas allot of edge cover and milder winters. Really helps with deer density. problem is getting a sizable area to gun hunt that isn't pounded.
#36
RE: Mass Bucks
Great points JF5... I also think that Easten MA got left alone for awhile when everyone was hunting out here.
Remember when there were rows of cars parked up on October & Beartown Mtn?!? It was a sea of orange.
Southern Berkshire has a great dee population, but the "city folk" have moved out and bought up and posted most of the land. It takes and act of congress to get permission ... or the "caretaker" hunts it.
Remember when there were rows of cars parked up on October & Beartown Mtn?!? It was a sea of orange.
Southern Berkshire has a great dee population, but the "city folk" have moved out and bought up and posted most of the land. It takes and act of congress to get permission ... or the "caretaker" hunts it.
#37
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Allston MA USA
Posts: 533
RE: Mass Bucks
ORIGINAL: Western MA Hunter
Great points JF5... I also think that Easten MA got left alone for awhile when everyone was hunting out here.
Remember when there were rows of cars parked up on October & Beartown Mtn?!? It was a sea of orange.
Great points JF5... I also think that Easten MA got left alone for awhile when everyone was hunting out here.
Remember when there were rows of cars parked up on October & Beartown Mtn?!? It was a sea of orange.
WMH is right. Eastern MA high densitydeer herd is relatively"new".
Ahh, the orange army days...remember them bigtime...we used to get up extra early to beat the other guys in. Forget scrapes and rubs. We would set up ambush points on escape routesheading into swamp or towards posted lands and get them. By 11am openign day...if you didn't have your deer down, your chancesdeclinedgreatly. I gotthree deer in my first four seasons that way.
But all that said, I loke it better now. So much less pressure...and I can hunt all season and have just as good a chnace as opening day. I can track and still hunt and see few other hunters...
#38
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Allston MA USA
Posts: 533
RE: Mass Bucks
ORIGINAL: Spysar
He weighed 185lbs dressed, at the Hubbard Ave check in. He may have weighed more in Nov, he looked a little rutted.
ORIGINAL: bbahunter
Eric,
That is a real nice buck, how much did he weigh in at?
Eric,
That is a real nice buck, how much did he weigh in at?
He weighed 185lbs dressed, at the Hubbard Ave check in. He may have weighed more in Nov, he looked a little rutted.
#39
RE: Mass Bucks
Great deer pics everyone and i like the attitude that they are all trophys. I'm originally from Upstate NY (south of Utica) and i have moved to Springfield MA to attend law school. I would love to find a place fairly close to springfield to hunt. I usually go home on weekends once the season rolls around but going back and forth kills me on gas and as a student i'm perpetually broke haha. There was a hunting club near by that i was thinking about joining but it was like 100 bucks a year for membership which was a little pricey for me. Anyways i just wanted to say nice pics and any suggestions are welcome and appreciated
#40
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts
Posts: 385
RE: Mass Bucks
Gmil,
You could try the WMA's for a start. I live just outside of Springfield and I tend to hunt the WMA's and Connecticut. Here is the link:
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfwlnd.htm#ACQ
Bob
You could try the WMA's for a start. I live just outside of Springfield and I tend to hunt the WMA's and Connecticut. Here is the link:
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfwlnd.htm#ACQ
Bob