OT - Out of state deer hunting trip

Here"s the deal, I"m a Mass resident who would like to do a weekend hunting in either Vermont or Maine. Everything I"ve checked out online has been crazy expensive. Anyone know of any reasonably priced cabins or camp sites I could rent?
What I"m looking for is very simple, I"m not looking for fancy guided tours with guarenteed shots. I"m just looking to rent a place for a night or two, where I can legally hunt near by.
Bottom line is it"s illegal to hunt with a rifle in Mass, it"s something I"d always wanted to do so I"m trying to set myself up out of state. Again, nothing fancy

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Can't answer the rent question but it was (maybe still is) shotgun/slug only in OH and WV was rifle. I was just like you. saved up, bought a 44 mag saddle rifle from the pawn shop. Got my WV license, and away we went. Used to pulling the trigger in OH and seeing a white belly then dressing the deer and being home a few minutes later. Shot one in the same spot at a distance of around a hundred yards just at daylight with the rifle. Found it about 3PM. Went back the next day to fill the tag and took the 12 gauge, was back home by noon.

Good luck on the hunt tho.

If you really want to kill deer, Have 100% + success, shoot rifles, don't need horns, land access is no problem, do it as inexpensive as possible, and be accepted by the locals, wait for North Dakota to have its next early season doe hunt.

come out west here, 1, buy out of stste hunting licence, 2 gain ranchers permission to hunt on his land, 3, see deer, 4, shoot deer, we prefer you dont use a abrahms tank to shoot it with, but most anything else is ok,

Why spend all that money when you can drive to my house in Michigan. Put a lawn chair on the roof of my house, and you will have a deer in a few hours. Just get 3 or more deer tags while your at it.
Bring your own gun and ammo. (shotgun only, rifled slugs)
I dont like deer much after I wrecked my old car by hitting one at 55MPH.
Can you shoot shotgun in Mass? I think of Mass. as too crowded with cities and Liberals to hunt with a rifle anyway. And just think....The revolutionary war started there. Amazing.

Don't even need a gun in Michigan. Just drive your car down the road and hit them. Taken three myself that way. They even try to accomodate by running to catch up with the car and get in front of it. Wait till you taste one of the rotten buggers.

Any chance of getting a couple more guys and splitting 3,4,5 ways. most of these cabins are designed for groups, from what I have seen.

Same here at my place. Coffee, donuts, rifle,and chair on the roof and you'll have your deer by lunch-time.

44 mag bullet has almost stopped 100 yards out!

In my state when I want to travel to the rifle zone to hunt we just camp on public land. Check with those states public departments and check to see about U.S. Forest Service acreage, you can pretty much camp most places on Forest Service acreage. Takes alot more prep work for pithcing a tent and camping but it is cheap.

You could also consider NY, we have a good part of the state open to rifle hunting in both Northern (earlier) and southern zone, as well as muzzleloader seasons.

As far as Maine you are wasting your time it has the worst deere hunting in the nation. The private land is all posted. Look at states that have too many deer. Guided hunts are $$$$ big anywhere.

Actually the balistics of a .44 mag in a rifle is pretty good out to 200 yards with most bullets and accepatble as far as hitting power out 300. The biggest problem is the path which can vary as much as 10 inches or so in 200 yards. A BIL who shoots a 300 Win mag gut shot one at about 50 yards a couple of years ago. Took him near 12 hours to find it. He made 2 mistakes, 1. shot placement and 2. getting out of his stand and chasing it right away. He found a spot 15 min into the tracking where the deer had laid down and maybe would have died there had he not spooked it. As far as the shot placement if he would get a decent sized gun that didn't make him flinch.....Good friend who shoots well has taken many deer with a .44 Marlen lever action.

AS far as rifle hunting, get with on of the board members from Mn in the rifle zone. Drive/fly out and have your hunt.

Rick

Bring your cabin with you if you want cheap.
Small to mid sized camping tralers are reasonable. With a slide in pickup camper, I have traveled all over the North- East for the cost of fuel and food.

I believe Mass landowners can still hunt their own land with rifle, watching for direction and distance to neighbors of course, but I know lots of people who hunt with rifles in eastern Conn, and come home with more luck than anywhere up north, where everyone goes to hunt everything- all year long! Adirondacks- well 'northern tier' is still rifle, and most of Pa, where there are more deer than people....

Ya know guru, I have been hearing about mass liberals since I was a kid. From all sorts of people in all sorts of states. I will say Vermont, that has 2 senators and a rep that are the poster child of abundant- including national gun control issues, but the state itself has none but federal gun control.
I can carry a short barreled pistol in my belt, all over- cause I got a permit to do so. I know big bad western states that pick on mass, that you better not get caught with a handgun outside a visible holster, or at all, especially a bank or barroom! I won't mention a few I know stricker than is widely known, to avoid online peein' contests here. Some states have no concealed permits at all, some states can't do lots of stuff with firearms you can in Mass. There are collectors here in abundant gun control famous Mass. that are collecting full, select fire and semi auto assault weapons now illegal in neighboring states.
Pistol on deer is not popular, if you don't make a clean kill, you can chase it for miles of thick brush, fences, other people's back yards- then you and the animal get rescued by the warden.
Yes, shotgun is the norm, because there is so much being built in the woods that didn't used to be there since patriot days, blame 4WD SUV's- but that's the way it is when you live in a place where there's jobs. So 'having' a collection of long range rifles is different to shooting them out your back door.
But the myth goes back to the late 60's, when Mass was the first state to get into serious gun- 'registration', because of the Kennedy's assassinations and all, nowdays there's a push for gun 'lemon laws' not just for child safety and chambered drops, but so's you don't pay big bucks for something brand new... that doesn't go off when you really need it to. There are websites out there with the real facts and figures of who's got the real firearm's freedoms, and I'm not loosing any sleep over mine.

You can try WV we have an excess Of dear last year 44 were kiled on a strech of road about 14 miles long. you are welcome to hunt on my farm for free. But you will have to bring your own camper. I don't hunt because I have no one to hunt with being 70 years old is not wise to be in woods alone. I might even be talked into taking my camper to farm .

(quoted from post at 07:50:18 08/21/11) You can try WV we have an excess Of dear last year 44 were kiled on a strech of road about 14 miles long. you are welcome to hunt on my farm for free. But you will have to bring your own camper. I don't hunt because I have no one to hunt with being 70 years old is not wise to be in woods alone. I might even be talked into taking my camper to farm .

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You could kill deer with a slingshot no farther than you'd be able to see them there :roll:

Just kiddin....

It's illegal to rifle hunt in southern Michigan, but that's because of the population density. I can't believe that anyone with a brain would advocate using a 30'06 in a populated area. I used to rifle hunt near rose city, in the northern lower penisula. In any case cheap and hunting is pretty much a dead idea. The best hunting is all on private land. Hunting on state land can be scary, too many folks out there. I have a couple of friends that gave up hunting due to safety concerns. My neighbor owns 1100 acres. They are charging $900 per for hunting this year, but this includes bow & gun hunting. I think in another generation, hunting will be like europe - only for the wealthy.

Head to the South, Deer are more plentiful than rats and are viewed in about the same way.

I always think of that drunk Ted Kennedy when I think of your state. And your state is heavily populated with liberals cause Massachusetts always votes Dumocrat. And Dumocrats hate guns/hunting/freedom of thought.

Of course Michigan isnt much better, cause the inner cities are infested with dumocrats.

(quoted from post at 13:57:55 08/21/11) I always think of that drunk Ted Kennedy when I think of your state. And your state is heavily populated with liberals cause Massachusetts always votes Dumocrat. And Dumocrats hate guns/hunting/freedom of thought.

Of course Michigan isnt much better, cause the inner cities are infested with dumocrats.

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Shoot, you spoiled it for me. I had no idea I was supposed to hate guns, hunting and freedom of thought. I guess I better go empty out my gun cabinet now.

You should consider checking the accuracy of your stereotypes. I don't hate guns at all. I'm not very comfortable with the idea of unregistered guns, easy/undocumented transfer of ownership or believe in the need to carry one everywhere you go. I am sorry that you cannot differentiate those specific concerns from the overall idea of firearm ownership.

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(quoted from post at 13:57:55 08/21/11) I always think of that drunk Ted Kennedy when I think of your state. And your state is heavily populated with liberals cause Massachusetts always votes Dumocrat. And Dumocrats hate guns/hunting/freedom of thought.

Of course Michigan isnt much better, cause the inner cities are infested with dumocrats.

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You should consider checking the accuracy of your stereotypes. I don't hate guns at all. I'm not very comfortable with the idea of unregistered guns, easy/undocumented transfer of ownership or believe in the need to carry one everywhere you go. I am sorry that you cannot differentiate those specific concerns from the overall idea of firearm ownership.

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Ryan the problem with that is a heck of a lot of gun crime is commited with illeagally obtained/possesed guns. The black market is alive and well. I wonder why the AFT is more concerned with stores selling guns and performing NIC's than in closing down the black market. Maybe cause a leagal gun shop owner isn't going to shoot at them.

I have a CC permit, don't carry often but I have it. Don't much care for the news reporting being done too. Look it up, the US is not even in the top 10 countries for murders but if you watch the news they make it seem as if it's the worse country in the world. The number of murderes in the US for 2009 from all causes is 15,241....out of 300,000,000 or so people. Watch the news and you would think it's in the 100,000 or so range if not more. Look at how the news media covered the stock crash a couple of years ago. WORST DAY EVER!!!!! And by points drop it was.......but the crash of 29 Oct 29 continued untill 1931. Stocks averaged 381 prior and in 31 averaged a bit over 41. So far our current situation has stocks down about 30% but there they lost 90! It's not the facts that matter to the news media but the sensation!

Rick

You think that guns should be registered? What the Fook is the matter with you? Did you know that before 1968 anyone could walk into a gun store and buy a long gun? Then after the Kennedy deaths Ted Kennedy pushed real hard for the 4473 sheet....Which is BS in my opinion.
More registered guns means more gun crime....look at the stats.
I would guess that in the future the dumocrats and the "for the children" crowd of bleeding hearts all ammunition will be documented and purchase limits and all that crap.
I went to the gun range today and shot my .30-30 Winchester, Fun.
BTW: none of my guns are registered, aint happening.
And you dont believe in concealed carry? Hey buddy, I guess you have never heard of muggings? or rapes? or home break ins huh?

One problem with the ATF is that they try to justify there existence cause they have a ballistics database and it might solve crimes. Can anyone tell me any real benefit to society the ATF has beyond the ballistics database?

Alcohol, Tobacco, firearms....All legal the last time I checked. WTF?

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Ryan the problem with that is a heck of a lot of gun crime is commited with illeagally obtained/possesed guns. The black market is alive and well. I wonder why the AFT is more concerned with stores selling guns and performing NIC's than in closing down the black market. Maybe cause a leagal gun shop owner isn't going to shoot at them.

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Rick,

I will respond to you as you are behaving in such a way as to treat me as another human being instead of simply ranting and raving and assuming there must be something "the fook" wrong with me simply because I have a difference in opinion.

Absolutely a heck of a lot of gun crime is committed with illegally obtained guns. However, almost all of those guns were at one time legally owned and purchased. Lacking a registration process you never have a starting point with which to begin and investigation. My father had a .243 stolen back in the 70's. Had the gun been registered and possibly entered into a ballistics registry and then used for a crime there would at least be a starting point in terms of investigating the crime.

Most of my beliefs are based on personal experience. When I was a kid I was deer hunting with my family. The hunters on a neighboring piece of land were the kind of guys who all sat in a trailer and then if a deer wondered onto the property they would all jump out and start unloading their clips as fast as they could. Long story short one time a deer appeared was when we were driving the neighboring woods. I was just over a knoll about 250 yards from them. Whether they could see me or not they were firing directly at me. I ended up on my belly praying that none of the bullets whizzing over top of me and hitting the branches around me would end up hitting me. Every time someone brings up gun control I can't help but think back to that day. Had one of those bullets hit and possibly killed me I would have wanted my family to determine from whose rifle it was fired.

Now I realize in this case it would have been fairly easy to determine from where the bullet came since we knew where the shots were coming from if there rifles would have happened to disappear or if a situation were to occur where you don't know where the shot was from I would hope that a system could be set up to assist in locating the perpetrator. I also can't see how as a gun owner this is a huge inconvenience for me.