MN Deadline Approaching

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If you have a question not covered here about fish bucks please start a new thread.

Thanks!

Jan. 9th feels like a long way off, but from experience, let me tell you to do it NOW!!! The holidays will come and everyone will be busy, then you get back into the swing of things after the new year, and it’ll slip your mind!

Joel

My friend had a problem at one of the ELS agents after the original deadline but saw online that it was extended so he called down to St. Paul and they said that it was not. Anyone try to buy a license after the first deadline. I have my app in already but was going to apply for my son.
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This is right from the MN DNR website:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/turkey/index.html

Wild turkey hunting

The wild turkey had disappeared from the state by the turn of the century. Today wild turkey gobbles reverberate from ridges in Houston County in the southeast to Becker County in the northwest. Read more…

Wild turkey hunt

2008 fall hunt

2008 fall hunt information

2008 fall hunt map

Nonresident turkey lottery application worksheet

Check the 2008 lottery results

Check the 2008 surplus license list

2008 fall hunt rules

2008 fall hunt landowner list

Registration stations

2009 spring hunt (application deadline changed to January 9, 2009)

Just signed me and the boys up for the 3rd week in April. I hope we get drawn!!!

I got mine on the 12-16 for the boys and I – no problem.

Just a reminder to get your applications in, due in two days!

Joel

Thanks for the reminder! If you apply for a tag and do not get drawn, can you still purchase an archery tag later on? Or do you have to decide to purchase an archery tag from the get go?

Archery tag is always an option over the counter, at any time, whether you applied or didn’t earlier. So long as you’ll be hunting in a zone which has 50 or more permits per time period.

I apply in MN frequently with the hopes of securing an earlier season, then hunt the bow or a surplus season if this doesn’t work out for me. This gets me out there with a bow more often, and it builds preference points when I want to take a stab at the “A” season. Typically, I find this to be an ill-afforded luxury, as the birds can be extremely henned up at this time, and weather can be less than favorable!

Joel

Thanks jnelson!

No promblem Brad, I’m sure you’ll be helping me out with some of the WI turkey regs one of these years. I’ve only hunted there a few times. Seems like the non-res. draw over there is basically restricted to “E” season or later if my memory serves me well? Alot of opportunity over there, esp. in the neck of the woods you hunt!

Btw, excellent work this year and last on the big deer. I’ve been following the posts that have chronicled your run-ins with those bucks, and it’s exciting. Great writing, and the pics are the icing on the cake!

Joel