Training beagles...

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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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And some forum post i found said this.

 

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Found more.. Google response on that search.

 

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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.

 

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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

 

[R Ellis]

simple just ask a game warden and what are you training a beagle to do with birds

 

[SOLANCO]

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..

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.

 

[R Ellis]

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.

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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simple just ask a game warden and what are you training a beagle to do with birds

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.

 

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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

Yea.. she's needs to find and run her rabbit..

 

[nhmoose]

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.

 

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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.

 

[sheriff john]

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.

 

[bud in pa]

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.