Hello

I am planning to find some squirrels at the Pigeon Swamp when the season starts. That will be my first time hunting ever.

But I can't find any info on the hunting areas within the park, nor where hunting is restricted due to park visitors.

Does any one have any information or past experience hunting there?

1 hour ago, Nam Le said:

Hello

I am planning to find some squirrels at the Pigeon Swamp when the season starts. That will be my first time hunting ever.

But I can't find any info on the hunting areas within the park, nor where hunting is restricted due to park visitors.

Does any one have any information or past experience hunting there?

Read the Digest that just came out. All info should be in there. 

https://www.njfishandwildlife.com/dighnt20.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

 

10 hours ago, Old_Hunter said:

Read the Digest that just came out. All info should be in there. 

https://www.njfishandwildlife.com/dighnt20.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

 

If that info were in the digest I wouldn't have to ask for it here...
If you can help me to point it out from the digest then that will be very much appreciated.

As far as I know, Pigeon Swamp is not a WMA, so you cannot hunt small game there. Some state parks will allow deer hunting to control the population, but no small game. Just because you can hunt deer do not assume you can hunt anything else. 

This site lists all of the WMAs in NJ and links to maps, but does not provide hunting regulations. https://nj.gov/dep/fgw/wmaland.htm

Find a WMA close to you, and then go to the web site of that specific WMA to see hunting regulations.  There are not many (at least around me) that allow small game hunting. 

 

11 minutes ago, Grapeshot said:

As far as I know, Pigeon Swamp is not a WMA, so you cannot hunt small game there. Some state parks will allow deer hunting to control the population, but no small game. Just because you can hunt deer do not assume you can hunt anything else. 

This site lists all of the WMAs in NJ and links to maps, but does not provide hunting regulations. https://nj.gov/dep/fgw/wmaland.htm

Find a WMA close to you, and then go to the web site of that specific WMA to see hunting regulations.  There are not many (at least around me) that allow small game hunting. 

 

Thanks for the reply, but I've checked the state park hunting areas list at https://www.njparksandforests.org/parks/docs/hunting_areas.pdf

 

What you were saying - "Some state parks will allow deer hunting to control the population, but no small game." - I think is more accurate regarding county parks, not state parks.

For this SP, it says 84% open to hunting so I'm trying my best to not step foot on the remaining 16%.

Just for contrast, Hacklebarney has very clear instruction on this matter at https://chestertownship.org/township-committees/parks/hunting-information/ and that's why I'm trying to find the same info on Pigeon Swamp.