Mass F&W Permit to hunt quail Jan, Feb and March

[Bill Murphy]

This is quite the gig. Hunt out of season, shoot over the limit on a bird that is not normally a game bird, and no one there to check to see if you really released any birds. Tom Flanigan knows the game. We hunted quail in Maryland under a similar system. A $5.00 training license and you can shoot out of season, over the limit, and on Sunday, all on the assumption that you brought your own birds, with no one to check on you. We did not abuse the system, but I'm sure others did.

[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

This is quite the gig. Hunt out of season, shoot over the limit on a bird that is not normally a game bird, and no one there to check to see if you really released any birds. Tom Flanigan knows the game. We hunted quail in Maryland under a similar system. A $5.00 training license and you can shoot out of season, over the limit, and on Sunday, all on the assumption that you brought your own birds, with no one to check on you. We did not abuse the system, but I'm sure others did.

Bill is right. I never abused the privilege. I imposed a personal limit of four birds on myself. That was enough. There were areas on that state land where most people didn't go and I knew where the coveys were likely to be. Most of the pressure, if you could call it that, was on the first few fields. I hunted them a lot too.

[Steve Hodges]

I for one applaud our sister state to the south, something I seldom do but I think in this instance that the State of Massachusetts is doing a great thing for sportsman of there state. You can work your dogs late into the winter for not a lot of money. Massachusetts is not exactly know as the king of Quail State and I imagine that in the end there will be more quail there when the season started due to the released birds. Have fun Allen.