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It looks like I can train my beagle off leash at a wma here but...

It doesn't come right out and say that either from what I've found and there isn't much there so here goes.

You need a hunting license..

If using birds you need permit for those to have..

Pick up poop..
 

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These rules law regulations etc.

Other than asking a lawer that specializes in beagle. Lol

The forum response on some beagle hunting forum.. say one thing. 365 days a year..

But Google just pulled up September to March.
 
Lol you know.. it's not funny but.

Watch.. I'll go tomorrow.

Game Warden going to show up to tell me anyday except Sunday
 
Trigger said:
For Massachusetts

It looks like I can train my beagle off leash at a wma here but...

It doesn't come right out and say that either from what I've found and there isn't much there so here goes.

You need a hunting license..

If using birds you need permit for those to have..

Pick up poop..
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First of all move. Get out of MA.

Next find a buddy with trained working beagles. Hunting with his dogs will teach yours more than you ever could.
 
SOLANCO said:
First of all move. Get out of MA.

Next find a buddy with trained working beagles. Hunting with his dogs will teach yours more than you ever could.
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Beagles need to run solo or with one other old steady dog that want run off game to learn and develop confidence .Running a young dog in a pack puts to much pressure on the youngster and can cause problems
 
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R Ellis said:
simple just ask a game warden and what are you training a beagle to do with birds
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I'm training for rabbit.. the beagle.

Sorry.. I was just adding that if it was bird dogs training. To have the birds.

I've just heard in a few places that you can train them. I think I'll call the warden on Monday and ask though.

My gun club is also is an option to ask. and that falls under private land. There are rabbit around there.
 
40 years ago there was a beagle club/training facility at the north end of the Newburyport WMA. Having escaped MA about that time I do not know if it is still there. My beagle was traind at tha WMA running with friends family who trained beagles. She learned to chase pheasants and to retrieve them. Furry stuff she would not pick up unless it was a squirrel then she would eat the head off.
 
I think it's still there.. there was a field trail that way.

I found a club about an hour from here.. I have to go to a meeting and see about getting in. I did like the guys. There's only 8 members there.

It being a small group of members had me interested..

It's work.. they want you to work the club.. we will see.. the family wants to go and the wife wants a puppy. So.

I went to one club around down the cape a ways somewhere.. I didn't like anyone there. Not to be political but they were funny people mostly. It wasn't welcoming.
 
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I have to get her on some rabbit.. I know where to go. I'm waiting for it to open.. couple weeks now

I took her for a walk. I get what the guy meant that I bought her from..

She's a medium slow working. I enjoyed the walk wow I didn't get exactly what the guy meant on slow but I was like yea OK I don't want to go fast. Lol

it was a nice walk. I kinda didn't know what to expect let her go but she followed my direction.. listening.. came when I called really good. That was a big deal..

The GPS collar is cool.. but not needed.
 
Sounds like you're off to a good start. We're into our second year with Max, a Bassett. He has free run via dog doors to go after rabbits anywhere on his farm, anytime. Interesting to us, if he's with us, he hunts enthusiastically - into brushpiles, weedy thorns, etc. races after bunnies he flushes, tracks well, and comes running when we shoot to see if there's anything to retrieve. Although he is decidedly strange in some ways, he refuses to bark/howl/utter when running a hot track. Even with a buddy's beagle excitedly vocalizing, Max-the-Mute is his persona.

Same dog bawls/barks loudly if the sweeper is left out of the closet, anything moved in a room, or people who visit regularly stop by ...most anything but fleeing rabbits. Oh well ...have fun. Nothing cuter than a hound dog pup.
 
Many years ago we had a beagle that would chase pheasants, her bark was different form chasing a rabbit. She would retrieve rabbits, birds, but she wanted to eat the squirrels. I had her up at my uncles place, and we were hunting near a fenced in reservoir. My cousin shot a pheasant that went over the fence and into the water, that dog crawled under the fence and swam out to the bird and retrieved it! We couldn't believe it. She was never trained to retrieve, let alone do a water retrieve.
 
R Ellis said:
simple just ask a game warden and what are you training a beagle to do with birds
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Asking a question like that of a bureaucrat is usually just an exercise in futility. When they don't know the correct answer they invariably will just say "no". I tested this with a Game Warden here in Arkansas. Every year just before the turkey season I would ask him if using a Brown Bess was legal. He always said "no". He simply didn't know what a BB was and he was too ignorant/lazy to find out. BTW, it is legal.
 
Rifleman1776 said:
Asking a question like that of a bureaucrat is usually just an exercise in futility. When they don't know the correct answer they invariably will just say "no". I tested this with a Game Warden here in Arkansas. Every year just before the turkey season I would ask him if using a Brown Bess was legal. He always said "no". He simply didn't know what a BB was and he was too ignorant/lazy to find out. BTW, it is legal.
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Lol.. I don't trust there answer all the time either.

You always hear call a lawer bud. Etc..

You can can call the firearms Bureau. If it firearms question..

Fish and game for hunt questions.

A lawer? I don't like them. I don't trust them. They always act like kakaa online and no one wants there advise to begin with.
 
A lawer is.. Do they even talk to you without money? I don't know I never called one up like that.

The free one on a forum only wanted to bash everyone to the point they got themselves banned for attacking members.

The people I know who use there lawer are kinda rich. Just a little. So they paid for there advice. And they paid for it.
 
I used run beagles. Just cottontail though. In Texas it's all year round. I usually hunted after the first freeze.
I don't know how someone else does it. I had three and I'd just turn em loose. I'd listen for the distinctive bark. The scent bark, the chase bark and the in the briar bark. As soon as I heard the chase bark, I'd head that way. I'd figure which way they were going, our cottontail always went in a circle. I'd find the right spot and hunker down. Soon the rabbit comes into sight. Boom, just had to make sure the beagles weren't close before I let go the 22 bullet.
It was a wonderful experience. I miss those days.
 
I used to hunt with a Beagle name of' Banjo' he wasn't mine he drove off the Deer & Goats I was after reliably. He was forever nose down brain dissengaged All Beagle. But he was otherwise good company and served as an extra blanket (except blankets don't chase Pigs in their sleep ).Not with standing his questionable 'Help' I seemed to get as much with him as without him and he was very good at' Helping me' eat smoked Eels & spare food .on our week long meandering's always with muzzleloaders. Well I had .Banjo didn't like the bangs .But his heart was a big as a mountain and we saw plenty in the Nelson Ranges His owner calculated they where a pack animal so's to get a collective brain between them .
Rudyard
 

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