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    Does only for the first 2 weeks. Thoughts?

    in Region 1

    Posted

    By law you are suppose to have written permission from every dwelling within 150 ft of your tree stand.  In many residential area's this includes more than just the owner that lets you hunt it can include 1-5 houses depending on where you are located.

    Question: How far from a building do I have to be to discharge my firearm?

    Answer: You cannot discharge a firearm within 500 feet, crossbow within 250 feet or longbow within 150 feet of any school, playground, occupied factory or church, dwelling, farm building, or structure unless you own it, lease it, are an immediate member of the family, an employee, or have the owner's consent. This does not apply to the discharge of a shotgun over water when hunting migratory game birds and no dwelling, public structure, livestock, or person is in the line of fire.

    ...don't think it requires "written permission", but getting things in writing is always the smarter way to go.

    What does this bear weigh?

    in Bear Hunting

    Posted · Edited by jjb4900

    How many of you guys that say not to shoot it, would shoot that spike buck?

    I would shoot both.......even more so the bear,that way if it tasted like crap, there would be that much less meat to try and choke down.

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    Is bear meat worth the effort?

    in Bear Hunting

    Posted

    I went to a place in Patten, Maine for 3 years in a row. I was a teenager, & the outfitter would let me come up for the summer & help get stands / trails ready, and start the baiting. In return, he let me hunt the first week of the season for free. He turned out to be a great friend, but died a few years back. Killed 2, missed one. 175lbs & 200lbs. The first one was great to eat, we did it mostly in roasts / stews. The second one had visible 1" - 2" worms crawling out of where the muscles overlapped eachother. I didn't eat that one.

     Don't listen to the people saying that a 150lb bear is too little. He always told guys that 130lb was an average Maine bear. Bears are tough. We trailed and lost lots of bears that guys hit with fast, flat shooting rifles (300, 30-06, etc). The shots were all under 50yards, & the guys who did best used their 12 gauges or slower rounds throwing heavy lead (I used a 444 on one, and a 458 win on the other)

    Good luck! I'm jealous.

    150lb bear is average for Maine from what I've seen and been told..........I wouldn't pass one up if were me.

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    MZ season

    in Deer Hunting

    Posted

    Any of you old geezers remember when the (SZ) regular deer season started on a specific date every year? Rural high schools would actually close due to high absenteeism. Small businesses would also be forced to close because so many employers wanted off to go hunting on opening day. Thus the evolution of the flexible (SZ) 3rd Saturday in Nov opener! Bow and ML seasons accordion around the start/end date of the SZ regular season.

     

    A later SZ ML season, just another factor I can use to try and justify not going out then. Along with does only! Oops, did I say that?

    I thought it was the third Monday of November instead of the third Saturday...........if I remember correctly the numeric date was subject to change as it is now, only difference was it opened on a business / school day.

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    Discharge Laws

    in General Hunting

    Posted

    not to mention, that smaller Villages and Towns can have totally different restrictions then the State does....it would be impossible for the State to write the absolute restrictions on all roadways in  the State. 

    Need info...

    in Deer Hunting

    Posted · Edited by jjb4900

    I don't think there is a special "youth hunt" for young archers...it's just during the regular archery season, and I believe the crossbow is only allowed for big game during the last two weeks of archery, as well as during the later seasons. The youth hunt that falls on Columbus Day weekend does not allow for crossbows....

    http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/46245.html

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    Discharge Laws

    in General Hunting

    Posted

    so, if they cut the grass 50' from the road edge, you must be beyond that point......if there is only a maintaned culvert or drainage ditch, you must be beyond that point....if there's a guardrail, you must be beyond that. I don't find it too confusing at all.

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    Asking for permission

    in General Hunting

    Posted

     I had some small scale manufacturing going on here at one time and got into a detailed conversation with my insurance company. My homeowners/farmowners insurance company must defend me if I am sued for something on my land. So, if someone is hunting here and falls out of his tree stand, he can try to sue me but it will be frivolous and dismissed. I don't know if normal homeowners insurance would be the same.

     

    Having no insurance at all would mean the landowner has to defend himself. However, with no insurance policy to fill their bank accounts, what assets are they going after?

    Land? I know someone who was on the losing end of a wrongful death suit that resulted from a car accident..........they wound up having to remortgage their home to come up with what their insurance company didn't cover, and they weren't even found totally at fault. 

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