A person shall not make, set, or use any bait, decoy, torchlight or spotlight, trap, or other like device for the purpose of attracting, ensnaring, taking, injuring, or killing a deer, nor hunt by baiting or within any baited area, nor hunt, drive, worry, or disturb any deer with or by the aid of any noise-making device, provided that nothing in 321 CMR 3.02(4)(f) shall be deemed to prohibit the use of scents or of deer antlers or replicas thereof or of grunt tubes as callers or attractants by persons otherwise lawfully hunting deer, and further provided that, notwithstanding the above prohibition, deer decoys may be used for hunting during archery only deer season.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Register no. 1571 (April 10, 2026), pp. 109-112 = 321 CMR pages 43-46: the text of 321 CMR 3.02(4), Hunting and Tagging of Deer, as filed by the Division of Fisheries & Wildlife under the Notice of Compliance at pp. 107-108 of the same issue and effective 12/19/25. Reproduced by the Massachusetts State Library, archives.lib.state.ma.us, handle 2452/886198.
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(f) a person shall not make, set, or use any bait, decoy, torchlight or spotlight, trap, or other
like device for the purpose of attracting, ensnaring, taking, injuring, or killing a deer, nor
hunt by baiting or within any baited area, nor hunt, drive, worry, or disturb any deer with or
by the aid of any noise-making device, provided that nothing in 321 cmr 3.02(4)(f) shall
be deemed to prohibit the use of scents or of deer antlers or replicas thereof or of grunt tubes
as callers or attractants by persons otherwise lawfully hunting deer, and further provided that,
notwithstanding the above prohibition, deer decoys may be used for hunting during archery
only deer season.
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