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Title:The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:SALEM::PAPPALARDO
Created:Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1561
Total number of notes:17784

967.0. "Camping/Hunting the same area" by SKETCH::PETERSON (I know.., I said I was leaving. BUT...!) Thu May 30 1991 17:46

    
    
    	This may be in another note somewhere, but I sure couldn't find
    it..
    
    
    	This fall I plan on taking a couple of days here and there to
    	do some hunting in the Central, or mabey Western part of MAss.
    	What I would like to know from any of you more experienced people
    	is if there are areas(no, don't give away a secret place) where
    	camping and hunting lands "mingle" with each other?  So far I have
    	just driven out to Barre with a friend, but this year I would like
    	to spend 2 or 3 days out, camp, hunt, cook, ect..
    
    
    	Any Suggestions?
    
    	Thanks,
    
    	Chuck Peterson
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967.1Don't know if this applies to you or notCHRLIE::HUSTONFri May 31 1991 09:437
    
    I don't know if you are looking to stay in an "official" campground, 
    but one thing to make sure of (if you are). Most, if not all, 
    campgrounds I have camped at, do not allow firearms.
    
    --Bob
967.2SA1794::CHARBONNDFri May 31 1991 10:136
    If you're willing to travel a bit further, there's a State
    Forest with a camping area on Rte. 20 between Huntington and 
    Chester, about 30 minutes west of Westfield. Extensive hunting
    in the Chester-Blandford State Forest. Also good hunting in
    the surrounding area. However, to hunt the Blandford side
    you need written landowner permission on private land.
967.3Beartown forest-MontereyWFOFAC::GRABOWSKIFri May 31 1991 17:3011
    
      Check with Beartown State Forest that's between Rt.23 in Montery
    and I think Rt. 20 near Lee.I hunted there during Deer and Turkey
    seasons a few years ago and saw a lot of hunters camped out in there.
    It's a big chunk of state land surrounded by communities that don't
    allow hunting without a landowners permission.I think I remember
    seeing stuff in local news and outdoor columns that the state had
    cracked down on camping on state land and had restricted it to a
    very few places.
                                                       John Grabowski
967.4EMDS::PETERSONI know.., I said I was leaving. BUT...!Tue Jun 04 1991 17:5210
    
    	
    
    	Thanks for all the info.  It looks like IF I persue this, that I'd
    	better go to some of these places and start talking to land owners.
    
    	I hope the Landcruiser makes it!  :-)
    
    	CP