I am being courted by a company to take a look at a job in central Connecticut near Cheshire. Is there much land and animals to hunt in that area? Do you need to buy a tag for every deer you take or one license for all the deer? How long is your season?

Hi Marvin, I live in MA., but the town I live in is directly on the CT. border, needless to say, with CT.'s very long and liberal season I always get a license. Why don't You give Me a call, and We can talk on the phone, instead of going back and forth on the computer. Call Me anytime Marvin, and I'll pass on any info. I can to You. Talk to You later, Brian Blackak... cell # 413-426-0184 home # 413-455-2310

Is it even legal in Connecticut? ....nothing else is! Can 't imagine anyone WANTING to live there!

CT has a great deer herd and a long season. I grew up in Wethersfield . I use to play as a kid in the meadows bordering the CT river and we would kick up deer all the time. That was right on the Hartford border. I know they have a lot more deer than I have here on Cape Cod.

Lots of deer in them there hills! TLM

LMAO Steve! That's liberal-land for sure!

I heard that one archery license allows a bag limit of four deer there. With a limit like that there must be a good amount of deer.

Here in Michigan, even with a good deer herd, it is one license for each deer and they just raised the price by 42%. Every few year the DNR comes up with a way to restructure the licenses to either gain lost revenue or make more money.

Yup, four tags with each archery license. And I believe in Zones 11 and 12 (along the coast)if you bring your deer to a check station they will give you replacement tags, so in those zones you can shoot more than 4.

Yeah, you can shoot a PILE of ‘em down south there if you can get access to private land; on public land it’s a helluvalot harder, especially in areas where baiting is legal on the private land and all the deer have been drawn off.

Starting mid-November, the Shotgun season runs 4 weeks, split into two, two-week periods and tags are awarded by lottery for each hunting area, with the total number limited so as to keep the hunter density no higher than 1 hunter for every 20 ACRES in the unit. Success rate in the 1st half (on public land) runs a pretty typical 15-20%, I think; second half is around 5% and ML season (which follows 2nd half of shotgun) is usually around 4%.

No doubt there are a few guys who hunt very hard on the public land (generally PRIOR TO firearms) and they do pretty well with it. Wild Bill is something of a hunting machine, near as I can tell. I drive to NJ every day, so my time and opportunities are quite a bit more limited than for most of the guys who do any good…

So it ain’t easy, despite a season that runs 9/15 to the end of January on some parts of the state. Crossbows are now legal for the entire archery season as well, so the pressure won’t be easing any… which is just one more reason that private land access is so coveted around here…

If you have great networking skills, you may find yours elf up to your eyeballs in hunting opportunities and you may become one of the 1-2% of hunters who manage to take a dozen or two every year, or you could end up sitting in a stand somewhere glassing a herd of deer clustered ‘round a feeder on the next place over.

But at least you won’t miss any football, because we’re not allowed out of the house on Sundays.

So don’t move here for the hunting. A good job is a good job, and these days a good job is hard to find, so do what makes sense, and maybe figure out how you can continue to hunt with Old Friends for a week every year back where you came from…

Sorry to be so full of gloom and doom, but honestly, if I could bail outta here and live just about anywhere else… I’d be gone as fast as I could pack up the family…

Thanks for the information guys. Sounds hit or miss.

GF - I don't know yet what the job pays and the cost of living seems pretty high in Connecticut, so we will see.

I have a hard time networking for hunting places here in Michigan even with lots of land and deer (everyone and their grandmother deer hunts in Michigan -like a religion). And I don't really have any hunting buddies, so that is a non-factor). Hunting a couple weeks out of the year doesn't get me my hunting fix. Thanks for you help.

Moving to Connecticut isn't worth it if you want to live free. As a hunter or gun owner, you are the prey of law enforcement and politicians. In the last two major elections, Connecticut went left as the bulk of the nation moved right. The Governor is about to enact another huge tax increase to sort of balance (not) a fantasy budget. IMHO, increased traffic and habitat destruction is reducing the deer herd faster than hunters. There are much better places to live.

However, in spite of the downside, I got a buck this year, by the grace of God.

My son hunts Western Conn. on a friend's farm. He hunts with a rifle there and shoots four deer each year in one weekend. I pound the living daylights out of these Northern NH woods to just get an arrow off, if I am lucky, the wind doesn't shift, or I don't blow it. At least our freezers are quaranteed to be filled.

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