Conference vmsnet::hunting$note:hunting

    re:  < Note 217.0 by BPOV04::J_AMBERSON >
    
    I'm getting "the fever" too.  I dug out my blaze-orange gear last night
    and have started taking inventory.  Better get out and start shooting
    soon...
    
    +- Mark

    It would take me all of 20 minuets to be ready and gone...if only
    Oct 1 would hurry!!!

       I am more than ready here in VT. I have been dreaming of
    that big bruiser walking into my 30-06 with 3x9 sight..........
    
        Have to consentrate on archery first though.................
    
    
                                      still dreaming
    
                                            jeff
    

    I'm all packed. Only 58 more days until Vt. opens.....
    
    
    	I think I'm going in Rut.........
    
    
    	Red

    I got a doe tag this year.  .4 said that he thinks he's in rut.
    I've been that way ever since the doe tag got here.  I take it
    out look at it, bark at the kids if they get too close to it, and
    generally protect it as I would anything else that is a matter of
    life or death :-).
    
    I bought myself a box of 165 gr. Nosler Partitions, and I am in
    the midst of working up a load for them in the '06.

    I have to wait until November 5 to get back out into the woods (3rd
    season in Colorado).   Until then, I can only hope that my wife
    will not require that I sleep with the dogs...
    
    							Dave()

    Next weekend for antelope, then I wait until 5-Nov for deer/elk.
    My rifle is clean enough to eat off of, my knives will shave,
    my boots are waterproofed, my blaze is clean, my wife is taking
    it well.
    Wish me luck,
    Bill

    Yea, I'm ready.  My wife has already noticed that I can't sit still
    at night without going through the Cabela's catelog for the 99th
    time, or reading Wildfowl, or sharpening knives, etc.
    
    Last evening I was out in the back yard training the pup when a
    very loud flock of geese flew over my driveway at treetop level.
    I couldn't sleep last night...........
    
    Mark,
    

    hey guys...I'm outa here. On my way, right now. Hope to nail a Wyoming
    antelope next week. I'll be back the 26th. Talk to you then.
    
    Guy

    Rotsa Ruck!
    
    Mark.

    Just think, while you're sitting there at your desk, Guy is sitting
    in a mud hole next to some water waiting for and Antelope to move
    within range.  
    
    Brett.

    What's wrong with sitting in a mud hole? Don't you?
    

    Nothing's wrong with it.......I'm jealous!
    
    Brett.

    
    	Driving by the 'Flats' yesterday morning, I saw a guy just
    letting an English Setter loose to do it's thing. That dog looked
    ready and raring to go ............
    
    	One more week til NH opens, two for Mass..... Timberdoodles
    should be here (in greater numbers) pretty soon.
    
    dave

    Timberdoodles???  Do you actually eat those things?  I heard they
    weren't very tasty.  One of these days I'll hit one and be able
    to find out for my self.
    
    Dave

    pardon my ignorance but what the hell is a timberdoodle???
    
    do they eat people?? ;^)
    
    Fra
      

    Woodcock.
    
    

    	I seem to remember reading that woodcock season opens
    	Oct. 10, is that the case?  Also grouse were legal as of Oct.
    	10 in MA.  So is anybody out there yet?  Is it legal to hunt
    	the WMAs for these species before pheasant season opens?
    
   	Also can someone explain to me how the bag limits apply to 
    	birds hunted on shooting preserves?  I'm assuming that they
    	don't apply at least for the stocked species, but what about
    	others that can be shot but aren't stocked?  Should you
    	save the tag that the preserve gives you until the bird is
    	consumed?
    
    	Thanks,
    	Linda

    
    Linda,
    	I can't answer all your questions, but I can answer one. Partridge
    (the same as woodcock??) season opened Monday Oct. 10th. I'm assuming
    it's okay to hunt the WMA's since the one I go to every day had
    three cars parked there Monday morning and then when I was in there
    Monday afternoon I was talking to a hunter. I of course have started
    wearing my hunter orange cap and Oliver has his hunter orange collar
    and a bell. For two weeks Oliver was putting up partridge left and
    right, but the past two days we haven't seen one. I say it's not
    Oliver's fault, but that on Monday a hunter already went through
    the brush before us and on tuesday some jerk was in there tooling
    araound on his ATV. He's lucky I didn't run into him, cause if I
    had, I had the liscense(sp????) number of his car and and trailer.
    I'm sorry, but big orange gates across the access road and a sign
    that says "AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY" to me means people shouldn't
    be in there joyriding on their ATV's. Whew! Sorry but I had to get
    that off my chest.
    
    Patty

    	Thanks for the info Patty and Mike.  Oh, if I'm late in for
    	work this week, I'm probably at an off-site meeting.
    		;^)	Linda

    Patty, If you had the number from the vehicle you should have called
    the Complaints # which is 1-800-632-8075. I am sure they would have
    given the individual a call.
    
    Rich

    
    Can I do that though if I actually didn't see the person on the
    ATV, but only saw evidence thereof?? Is that number for police
    complaints of WMA complaints??? Thanks for the number though, I'll
    keep it handy.
    
    Patty

    The # was for Division of Fisheries & Wildlife Law Enforcement a.k.a Game
    Wardens. I believe they are responsible for WMA laws/rules.