Malbrough forest

[Bush-man]

Just a general question.

Ia deer season still on? I'm heading to Malbrough forest and will wander in the business, I do not want to disturb anybody deer hunting, if so please advice me!

[rf2]

Deer archery season is open pretty much until the end of the year. There is also a deer muzzle loader season at the beginning of December. That being said, there will be much fewer deer hunters in the woods compared to the rifle season in the previous two weeks. You should not worry about disturbing anyone.

[trimmer21]

Just a reminder that during the muzzle loader hunt,archery hunting is still allowed,BUT,because it's a gun hunt,hunter orange is required for ALL hunters (except waterfowlers) venturing afield during that period.

[Marker]

Just a general question.

Ia deer season still on? I'm heading to Malbrough forest and will wander in the business, I do not want to disturb anybody deer hunting, if so please advice me!

On public land do what you want, go and enjoy it. There are many users of public land such as dog walkers, bird watchers, butterfly collectors, orienteering races, boy scouts, mountain bikers, bird hunters with dogs running around, hunters cutting trees with chainsaws for the deer gun season, locals who claim its their property, kids on ATVs, guys target practicing. All of these I have encountered while hunting in my area.

[Bush-man]

Thanks dude

[dean.f]

On public land do what you want, go and enjoy it. There are many users of public land such as dog walkers, bird watchers, butterfly collectors, orienteering races, boy scouts, mountain bikers, bird hunters with dogs running around, hunters cutting trees with chainsaws for the deer gun season, locals who claim its their property, kids on ATVs, guys target practicing. All of these I have encountered while hunting in my area.

This made me laugh. Mostly because it's true everywhere.

I used to always worry about bothering others until I realized they don't care if they bother me so just do what you do and be as respectful as you can or else you will never get out there and enjoy yourself.

[Bush-man]

Best advice for sure

[Bush-man]

For sure man, thanks,

[swampsinger]

This is generally

[Marker]

This is generally my practice with deer hunters in the mb forest. The regular gun season is restricted to 2 weeks, they have no choice on when they can hunt so I don't do any small game hunting during that time. Bow hunters have practically three months to hunt. I believe it's unreasonable to ask small game hunters to stay out of the woods for that time. However, I have adjusted my habits to suit bow hunters as well, I usually start around 9 O'clock in the afternoon and finnish up around 3. I'm fortunate enough to be able to hunt a lot during the the week. My little joke about the mf is " if you go in on a tuesday, don't get hurt because they won't find you till saturday". The Marlborough Forest is 18,000 acres, that's plenty of room for the numbers of hunters that I see in there. Yes if you hunt there on thanksgiving weekend you might run into others doing anything you can imagine. My pet peeve with what I see in the mf and pretty much anywhere rural is people dumping garbage. I think that was a driving force behind the restriction of target shooting and gate closures in the mf.

Target shooting was very active in my area until the COs started writing tickets. One area in 79 has banned guns with the exception of the controlled hunt, and I suspect now that bows are allowed in the gun season that guns will be banned durring the controlled hunt leaving only bows at anytime, if my crystal ball is accurate.

As for the garbage, I pick up a few items every time I go hunting, mostly import beer cans from Europe, but empty propane cylinders and unused tarps from prior years deer blinds also. My personal best was a half full car gas tank, I got it to the road but I could not take it back home to dispose of with the fuel in it so a call to the local authorities got it picked up.

Unfortunatley hunting and gun use is not self regulated, all it takes is for one to spoil it for the whole. If the licences were more difficult to get in terms of cost and training we would not be facing such problems.