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Best time for hunting
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Hey Kirrmeister...
Best time for hunting is any time you can get in the woods!
For big game, not a lot of hunting goes on here during the summer. Some states, such as where I live in Missouri, allow squirrel hunting during the summer. I rarely go as it's simply too hot, humid and the insects are incredible. If we get a cool morning and I go, it's always in the early morning.
Big game starts variously from August in some locales and runs thru January. November is probably the month with the greatest number of seasons open nationwide. At this time of year morning or evening can be good. There are so many variables as to when the best time can be that I believe it impossible to say which is best. My personal preference is early morning.
As an example, all day it has been raining lightly where I live and if it were deer season I'd be out all day. Deer and other game will be moving all day at random times. It's also a great time to stalk thru the woods and slip up on a deer or catch one browsing along.
Best time is any time you can get in the woods!
Vic
Best time for hunting is any time you can get in the woods!
For big game, not a lot of hunting goes on here during the summer. Some states, such as where I live in Missouri, allow squirrel hunting during the summer. I rarely go as it's simply too hot, humid and the insects are incredible. If we get a cool morning and I go, it's always in the early morning.
Big game starts variously from August in some locales and runs thru January. November is probably the month with the greatest number of seasons open nationwide. At this time of year morning or evening can be good. There are so many variables as to when the best time can be that I believe it impossible to say which is best. My personal preference is early morning.
As an example, all day it has been raining lightly where I live and if it were deer season I'd be out all day. Deer and other game will be moving all day at random times. It's also a great time to stalk thru the woods and slip up on a deer or catch one browsing along.
Best time is any time you can get in the woods!
Vic
Hello from Germany,
here in Bavaria it is allowed to hunt on roes from 1. May to 15. January, but best time is when it starts in may and june and then now from november to january. then we are hunting atn baits, is very successfull. Another kind of hunting on roes is in august, the so called "Blattjagd", there you imitate with special pipe the roe caves call. the buck, hearing this expects a doe be near at the cave an comes to look, if so he will be shot. Especially huge bucks are hunted this way.
here in Bavaria it is allowed to hunt on roes from 1. May to 15. January, but best time is when it starts in may and june and then now from november to january. then we are hunting atn baits, is very successfull. Another kind of hunting on roes is in august, the so called "Blattjagd", there you imitate with special pipe the roe caves call. the buck, hearing this expects a doe be near at the cave an comes to look, if so he will be shot. Especially huge bucks are hunted this way.
Wow! Here in southern New York we get October 15th to November 17th for bow, November 18th to December 10th for regular (shotgun, pistol, bow or m/l, some rifle in chosen areas) and then Dec 11th to Dec 19th for late bow and M/l.
So your hunting seasons are very short. I think this is because of the hunting system. In the US you have in most states the licence-system. In Germany we habe the hunting-ground-system. Licence system doesn't exist at all.Are there certain numbers of game that have to be hunted like in Germany. So I have to shoot 30 roes a year in my hunting-ground (514 hectars, half forest)
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In Alberta most deer seasons run from Nov 1 to Nov 30 with the last two weeks of November including the rut. We have both Mule deer and white tails here and in some areas you can hunt from September 15 to November 30. There is a short special shotgun/ML season in the first three weeks of December around themajor cities.
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Here in Massachusetts,to get a shot at a buck, right now is the best time. The archery season runs from October 16th to November 25th.
As a rule, the first two weeks of November is the time of the rut. This is the mating season for whitetailed deer. The bucks are most vulnerable since they throw most of their caution to the wind in search of does. That is the weakness that usually does them in.
Our shotgun season runs from November 27th to December 9th. You can hunt with muzzleloaders during this time of year but there are a lot of other hunters in the woods. You compete with them more.I have found that if you don't shoot a deer within about three days of the shotgun opener, the chances of getting one go down a lot.
Then our muzzleloader season opens up from December 11th to December 31st. This season is tough. There are fewer deer in the woods as the bulk of the harvest of deer is done during the shotgun season. Also, the deer that are out are very nervous. They have been shot at and are using all of their survival skills to stay alive for the next three weeks or so. In addition, the mating season has been over for some time.So the bucks that are out there are much more cautious.I have found that the deer will go into the thickest of swamps that are almost impossible to enter. Whitetailed deer have a habit that is indigineous to the northern part of the US. When winter comes, the deer will instinctive head to what are called yards. These deer yards are usually in swamps where they mill about the day and try to survive the long winter. Even though we don't seem to get the severe winters in southern New England,the deer seem to act as if they do anyways.
As an example, I shot a six point buck this morning at 6:18 AM with my bow and arrow. I hit him at 10 yards from my seat on the ground. He was following a trail with his nose to the ground after doe. His tail was wagging like a puppy as he had one thing on his mind. After shooting him, he paused and went down the same path, tail wagging away as if nothing happened and he was still after the doe. You won't get this at the end of the season such as the way the Muzzleloader season is set in Massachusetts.
I will add that in Massachusetts, you need an additional muzzleloader stamp to attach to your regular hunting license. It is onlt $5.10 so it is not a big issue. One bad thing, you cannot hunt on Sundays in Massachusetts except on a licensed shooting preserve for game birds.
As a rule, the first two weeks of November is the time of the rut. This is the mating season for whitetailed deer. The bucks are most vulnerable since they throw most of their caution to the wind in search of does. That is the weakness that usually does them in.
Our shotgun season runs from November 27th to December 9th. You can hunt with muzzleloaders during this time of year but there are a lot of other hunters in the woods. You compete with them more.I have found that if you don't shoot a deer within about three days of the shotgun opener, the chances of getting one go down a lot.
Then our muzzleloader season opens up from December 11th to December 31st. This season is tough. There are fewer deer in the woods as the bulk of the harvest of deer is done during the shotgun season. Also, the deer that are out are very nervous. They have been shot at and are using all of their survival skills to stay alive for the next three weeks or so. In addition, the mating season has been over for some time.So the bucks that are out there are much more cautious.I have found that the deer will go into the thickest of swamps that are almost impossible to enter. Whitetailed deer have a habit that is indigineous to the northern part of the US. When winter comes, the deer will instinctive head to what are called yards. These deer yards are usually in swamps where they mill about the day and try to survive the long winter. Even though we don't seem to get the severe winters in southern New England,the deer seem to act as if they do anyways.
As an example, I shot a six point buck this morning at 6:18 AM with my bow and arrow. I hit him at 10 yards from my seat on the ground. He was following a trail with his nose to the ground after doe. His tail was wagging like a puppy as he had one thing on his mind. After shooting him, he paused and went down the same path, tail wagging away as if nothing happened and he was still after the doe. You won't get this at the end of the season such as the way the Muzzleloader season is set in Massachusetts.
I will add that in Massachusetts, you need an additional muzzleloader stamp to attach to your regular hunting license. It is onlt $5.10 so it is not a big issue. One bad thing, you cannot hunt on Sundays in Massachusetts except on a licensed shooting preserve for game birds.
Best time for me in Florida is when it cools off a little. Modern gun season comes in this wk end and will be the first time I get into the woods with flintlock. I was up in Illinois bow hunting during the muzzle loader season here that just ended. So I'm chomping at the bit for the wk end to get here and take my new .58cal. flinter out. Will set up tent Fri and be in the woods for Nov. thru about the second wk of Jan.
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All 50 states have their own wildlife agencies that oversee game and non-game species. Thus there are 50 different sets of rules in the United States. Some seasons are quite long, such as the archery seasons mentioned. Here in Missouri archery season for deer opens Sept. 15th and goes thru January 15th, I believe. It closed during the firearms seasons. We have twenty days total for centerfire rifle and muzzleloader. There are also special hunts across the state and in portions of Missouri there is a late anterless season. I believe it runs for a week. If one is willing to travel a bit it's possible to hunt 25-27 days for deer.
General seasons are open to everyone here. Some require you be drawn and in others licenses can be bought "over the counter". There are huge amounts of public land in almost every state so virtually anyone who desires to hunt can. To my knowledge a hunter safety course is required in nealy all states and some have age restrictions. You are most correct that hunting here isn't anything like it is in Europe.
Obviously owning your own land, such as several of us on here do, is the "Holy Grail" of hunters. After that, access to a nice piece of private ground is most desireable, whether leased or simple permission. Hopefully that permission or lease will allow you some input in the decision making process as to how game will be managed. Having said that, some very, very nice animals come off public ground every season.
Among the states there is so much variation in game specdies and seasons it seems impossible to me for anyone to know them all. That and many states change regulations every year.
Vic
General seasons are open to everyone here. Some require you be drawn and in others licenses can be bought "over the counter". There are huge amounts of public land in almost every state so virtually anyone who desires to hunt can. To my knowledge a hunter safety course is required in nealy all states and some have age restrictions. You are most correct that hunting here isn't anything like it is in Europe.
Obviously owning your own land, such as several of us on here do, is the "Holy Grail" of hunters. After that, access to a nice piece of private ground is most desireable, whether leased or simple permission. Hopefully that permission or lease will allow you some input in the decision making process as to how game will be managed. Having said that, some very, very nice animals come off public ground every season.
Among the states there is so much variation in game specdies and seasons it seems impossible to me for anyone to know them all. That and many states change regulations every year.
Vic
