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Coldpak — You have wild, free-roaming Sika in MD? That you can hunt with just a state tag?
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Dave/Cold pack -short answer yes. All are located in 6 counties on the eastern shore–that means across the bay bridge-east of the Chesapeake bay. Ah- about 6 hours driving from us in western Md. A quick glance at this years hunting reg.show about 6 different times for bow season. Not sure about out of state requirements and to be quite frank you have to be a lawyer to read our regs. particularly at night after a couple of–. If interested can investigate for you guys–I live in the hunters paradise of western Md. so would have to do some research for guides (I would recommend). If interested let me know–not to discourage but most of those deer live in heavily visited by tourists birding and such areas. I have spent many days over there on other adventures and considered them so habituated they were almost tame. I wouldn’t consider them free roaming–but I could be very wrong,and I don’t want to step on anyone’s AO–that I have never hunted. Let me know if you want further info and will get you some links in a day or so.
Semper Fi
Mike
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David Petersen wrote: Coldpak — You have wild, free-roaming Sika in MD? That you can hunt with just a state tag?
Dave, ColMike is at least partly right with his reply. Sika deer are found in MD’s lower four counties (not six; I’d hate for you to roam around above the Choptank River looking for one!) and Virginia’s Accomack Co. on their part of Assateague Island, though I don’t recommend wasting time on a hunt in VA. No matter where you’re hunting them, you need tall rubber boots and a very high tolerance for biting insects (add the occasional wild pony on Assateague). See MD’s DNR website, there is a good general article by Brian Eyler. Archery-only guides exist here, but you’ll be hunting a bait pile. Come hunt with us – you will never forget it!
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I did this hunt back in the late 80’s. Went with a guide service run by Jim Crumley of Trebark fame. Tall rubber boots for walking through water to your stand location and cover up for the skeets, no bug repellent for me. I used a climbing stand. We entered the swamp through private land. (This is where the guide service comes in) and we were hunting the fringes of a national forest the name of which escapes me but we were in the area of the Choptank River as mentioned above. It was a blast even though none of us tagged one. I heard them walking in the water and “bugling” just never saw one. They can be tough to hunt so don’t expect to tag out on a short hunt.
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Duncan wrote: I did this hunt back in the late 80’s. Went with a guide service run by Jim Crumley of Trebark fame. Tall rubber boots for walking through water to your stand location and cover up for the skeets, no bug repellent for me. I used a climbing stand. We entered the swamp through private land. (This is where the guide service comes in) and we were hunting the fringes of a national forest the name of which escapes me but we were in the area of the Choptank River as mentioned above. It was a blast even though none of us tagged one. I heard them walking in the water and “bugling” just never saw one. They can be tough to hunt so don’t expect to tag out on a short hunt.
im doing a hunt with cj Jenkins of muddy waters in sept. should be fun
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I go annually with TJ Jenkins of Muddy Marsh Outfitters. Myself, Dad and my now 14 y/o son. TJ offers a fun hunt in VERY wet swamp. He is archery only and due to that fact it is uncanny the number of animals on is leases (approx 5000 acres I believe). These things are small. A “royal bull” (they are an elk actually, complete w ivories) tops out at maybe 100-110 lbs. my son got his first last year, a 3y/o hind that dressed about 50 lbs. they are also a trip to be in the woods with as they are very vocal sounding like a cross between the bugle of a Rocky Mt Bull and the roar of a Red Stag. When you hear this screaming ogre running toward your ground blind (TJ likes ground but has a few stands) it WILL raise the hair on your neck. Of course when you see the pip squeak making all that racket I’ve actually laughed out loud 😀
One thing…I truly believe they are warier, and way more skittish, then any whitetail I’ve chased.
Another word, TJ utilizes feeders, like them or not, as patterning these things can be difficult as its been rare (at least last few years we’ve been going) to hunt any kind of dry-ish ground to track/pattern etc. you will be hunting in water….wear knee high Muck Type boots in order to hunt the best spots 😯
TJ is VERY reasonably priced, easy to get to (I live in No Jersey) and ton of fun to hunt with…
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