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Massachusetts now allows Huntsmans and Sidekicks for deer hunting...FINALLY!!!!!
« on: August 09, 2011, 02:35:45 PM »
   
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts – Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
Wayne F. MacCallum, Director

     
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MUZZLELOADER REGULATION CHANGE NOW OFFICIAL
 
A regulation change allowing deer hunters to use a hinge or break-open action muzzleloader during the primitive firearms season for deer has officially been enacted and will be in effect for the 2011 deer season.  Previously, this type of muzzleloader was prohibited from use during primitive firearms deer season. The 2011 Primitive Firearms season for deer begins on December 12 and ends on December 31. Deer hunters are reminded that all blackpowder guns used during this season must load from the muzzle. After a review by the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife and a Public Hearing held in the spring, the Fisheries and Wildlife Board approved the regulation change in April of 2011.  The regulatory change became official when it was published in the Massachusetts Register and the Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR) by the Secretary of the Commonwealth this summer. 
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Re: Massachusetts now allows Huntsmans and Sidekicks for deer hunting...FINALLY!!!!!
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2011, 04:25:29 PM »
Now you can finally use that Huntsman barrel you had sitting in the safe for something other than paper. ;D
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Re: Massachusetts now allows Huntsmans and Sidekicks for deer hunting...FINALLY!!!!!
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2011, 05:12:15 PM »
A Hunstman is one of the guns I have been taking to the Hunter Safety Courses I teach and the students always like it, but I have had to tell them they were (not yet) legal for deer, only paper, in Massachusetts, even though for years they were made here!!
I WILL be using the Huntsman during black powder deer season here in Mass this year. My wife would be happy if I got the deer that ate all the buds off her special rose bush a couple of months ago. It set new buds and we had some great roses but to wake up one morning and have all the new buds gone was a shock. I wonder what a deer that eats rosebuds tastes like ? "Too fruity" perhaps....<><.... :) 
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Re: Massachusetts now allows Huntsmans and Sidekicks for deer hunting...FINALLY!!!!!
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2011, 05:17:12 PM »
Quote from: MSP Ret on August 09, 2011, 05:12:15 PM

I WILL be using the Huntsman during black powder deer season here in Mass this year. My wife would be happy if I got the deer that ate all the buds off her special rose bush a couple of months ago. It set new buds and we had some great roses but to wake up one morning and have all the new buds gone was a shock. I wonder what a deer that eats rosebuds tastes like ? "Too fruity" perhaps....<><.... :) 
Hopefully we'll find out  8) .
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2011, 06:58:49 PM »
I am supprized you can leagally be within a days walk of a gun in Mass.
You can hunt in Mass?
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Re: Massachusetts now allows Huntsmans and Sidekicks for deer hunting...FINALLY!!!!!
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2011, 07:27:52 AM »
I live 20 min from Ma. There is far more public land for hunting there and the season runs longer.
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Re: Massachusetts now allows Huntsmans and Sidekicks for deer hunting...FINALLY!!!!!
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2011, 07:36:31 AM »
Quote from: MSP Ret on August 09, 2011, 05:12:15 PM
My wife would be happy if I got the deer that ate all the buds off her special rose bush a couple of months ago. It set new buds and we had some great roses but to wake up one morning and have all the new buds gone was a shock. I wonder what a deer that eats rosebuds tastes like ? "Too fruity" perhaps....<><.... :)

might taste like sweet revenge.
 
Good luck with your Huntsman during the MZ season.

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Re: Massachusetts now allows Huntsmans and Sidekicks for deer hunting...FINALLY!!!!!
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2011, 03:04:52 PM »
Don't know what it will taste like but hope it gets to taste some LEAD, congratulations
       Austin
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Re: Massachusetts now allows Huntsmans and Sidekicks for deer hunting...FINALLY!!!!!
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2011, 04:18:26 AM »
Thanks guys, and I do like the sound of that, "sweet revenge". If you don't mind I just may use that name for my newly legal H&R/NEF ML....<><...:)   
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