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The Long Arm of the Law

Like most folks whose social calendar is a little...light...I spend a fair amount of time reading the Mass game laws, and I found a real hum-dinger for you here in this picture. It is from a "plain language summary," on mass.gov, so I don't really know the chapter and verse. But apparently if you leave your stand up >30 days on private property, throughout the state, you're supposed to have written permission. Yikes. Something tells me this law gets broken from time to time. If I didn't know better, I'd be tempted to think that some of these laws were written with the intention of tripping me up.

Hmm. I have permission on my properties but non of my hang ons intrude into wood of the tree....

The way I read it, even in a "non-permission" town, I need written permission to leave a stand up for >30 days, regardless of how it's attached to the tree.

I think it's for the "tree house" tree stands made from wood.

interesting... I have lock on's and ladders all over the place on private property... landowners know...

I suspect you are correct Jeb, but I think this one is a lot like doing 65 on Route 2... Everyone does it, some get pinched for it...

Ill admit at points in the past when I used fixies more, well, this was broken a few times...

I normally pull mine just to keep them from being completely weather beaten. This year I didn't due to some recovery time needed after surgery. I just went in last week and loosened the straps on my sticks. No need pulling them now, be putting them back soon enough.

Jeb my favorite MA law is if I use dead coyote shotgun loads I can shoot a coyote with it but not a fox or bobcat. But yet I can legally shoot a fox or bobcat with a 300 win mag.

I'm like BC, I normally pull my stands I have on private property. This year has been nuts for me as I am in the middle of installing a new septic and selling my house to upsize. Haven't found a house yet but mine is sold. No time to pull stands, but at least I got a new string put on my bow. I need the season to start. I'm running out of venison.

You mean the bells and radio squelch that the Hopkinton, and Milford MA police use when walking through the Echo Lake area in Milford/Hopkinton and in Upton state forest is illegal? *GASP*

Yeah, they both drive so much deer that last year they built a "triangular" shaped pile of deer 6' high and hung x-mas lights around it.

I guess it's good to be part of the gang.

Spike my favorite is that yelling at homeowners exactly 501 feet away to shut their dogs up is apparently "disturbing the peace."

Yeah, people need to take their stand off public land. It is silly to "reserve" land owned by the public.

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