Antlerless permits

Anyone lucky enough to get drawn? We hunt in 177 and my girlfriend and myself were not drawn. Haven’t talked to the other people that hunt with us yet but I think one would have to be pretty lucky up here to get drawn with the few number of permits. I really wish they would revise how they go about that whole drawing thing. It’s my understanding when you buy your license by whatever date it may be your name is automatically put in. I’m sure there’s plenty of people out there that have zero intentions of ever harvesting a doe that get drawn and the permit is essentially wasted when someone else would have been grateful to have it. Oh well, maybe next year.

Didn’t think they were drawn yet??

Looks like they have Glenn. I just checked the DNR sight and I did not get one this year.

John Rasmussen wrote:

Looks like they have Glenn. I just checked the DNR sight and I did not get one this year.

Buy a bonus tag and I’ll help you get a metro doe, you can get 5 of them at 19 bucks a piece. No need to go north when the population is so much better south.

I wish I knew more about deer hunting so I could do something like that. I’ve deer hunted ever since I was old enough to but we have our own land and have never hunted anywhere else and would have no idea how to go about an endeavor like that. We hunt the same places on our property that my dad did and his dad and his dad. No clue how or why but the deer always use the same travel routes and come out in the same places. We strictly hunt for meat. My family loves the hamburger mixed with pork because it’s far superior to what you can get at a grocery store and the lean roasts and back straps get canned. I could eat that stuff every day. Until the last couple years it’s never been an issue getting at least one deer but the last couple has required a lot of time in the stand. That’s on 500 acres of private land near Orr. The bad winters and the wolves really took their toll. I’d love to have enough meat to make some jerky, polish and sticks but we usually just do what what we use the most with the few deer there are around.

No anterless tags where we hunt in 132.

didnt get one either in 197!!!!! my kid had one last year so…..

my brother hunts 169……..i know they aint getting any!!!!!

Second year of no more lottery in my zone, and after the warm winter, there should be plenty of deer running around. This is southern MN, I feel bad for you up-north folks. Hopefully the weather helped things a little up there too.

Our group is 3 for 3 on antlerless tag this year, not sure how all of 3 of got lucky but with nothing for the past 2 years it’ll be nice to have that as a backup.

Zone 214 here we are up to three deer again. With a mild winter there are plenty of deer.

2nd year not getting drawn in 172. 3 of us and no one got one. Have not shot one for 3-4 years, frustrating. Might be time to find some public land closer to the metro with the crossbow.

walleyesforme wrote:

I wish I knew more about deer hunting so I could do something like that.

Do you bow hunt? IMO public land gun hunting is a pretty significant challenge due to all the pressure, but bow hunting has a lot more land available, longer season, and thus a lot more opportunity especially for doe’s.

There are so many small public parcels that are over looked that get 0 pressure, that and I hunt tax forfeit land and there’s plenty of that, no one looks at that.

We are a managed zone so no need to apply but they did away with the early antlerless season this year in our zone so maybe things are changing. I always just let my kids hunt since it was the same as the youth season and I brought the ar for coyotes.

BigWerm wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>walleyesforme wrote:</div>
I wish I knew more about deer hunting so I could do something like that.

Do you bow hunt? IMO public land gun hunting is a pretty significant challenge due to all the pressure, but bow hunting has a lot more land available, longer season, and thus a lot more opportunity especially for doe’s.

I picked up a crossbow 2 summers ago and tried some the first season with it and put quite a bit of time in last year with it and never got to take the safety off. I think it all kind of goes back to the I was raised as a rifle hunter and all our stands are set up for rifle hunting as far as being in a field or clear cut or whatever it may be. I tried setting a ground blind up a few times and those deer can instantly tell something is up even if I left it out there a few weeks as soon as I’d go sit they’d come out in the field 500 yards away.I’m guessing in the woods trying to run traffic on a trail may be a better bet? Supposed to finally cool off next week so it will be time to start hitting the woods.

Are you referring to way up north or closer to the metro?

walleyesforme wrote:

I picked up a crossbow 2 summers ago and tried some the first season with it and put quite a bit of time in last year with it and never got to take the safety off. I think it all kind of goes back to the I was raised as a rifle hunter and all our stands are set up for rifle hunting as far as being in a field or clear cut or whatever it may be.

If you’ve got 500 acres of private land and you aren’t even seeing deer, you need to do something to make your property more attractive than the next million acres. In the North woods, that means food. The deer have endless cover and water up there, what they haven’t got is anything to eat.

Unfortunately, the reality is the big woods northern portion of MN is now a marginal whitetail area. The deer always were under pressure and lived winter to winter but the half century of no wolves gave the deer a slight edge. Unfortunately, that was then and this…

This is why I got into food plots in the first place 15 years ago. Hunting the way we always did, sitting in the woods hoping a deer would walk by, was simply not working anymore.

The last couple years we’ve been messing around with the food plot stuff. We got a tiller for the tractor and stuff and did some planting but the soil where we are at isn’t good for much, it’s pure blue clay. Our land has a mix of clear cuts, mature trees a couple huge fields and a river that runs through it. A farmer takes care of our fields so they are always in tip top shape which is about the best food they have around. Not so many years ago there would be 75-80 deer in our fields every night, fast forward to now and if there’s 10 out there that’s pretty unusual, usually 5-7 is normal.

Ross Gunderson wrote:

Are you referring to way up north or closer to the metro?

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