And buffalo county has went downhill for quality with increased pressure due to publicity. At least this is what the locals told me.

I’m calling a Johnny Mundt TD this weekend.

A lot of the tall grass prairie in MN had elk. Deer were more relegated to woods edges.

I might be the first guy in MN that’s shot a sharptail and a prairie chicken, but not a ruffled grouse.

Ripjiggen wrote:

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I still don’t understand the new kick offs. Really don’t care too. Just look for a kneel or a run out.

Was there another option before?

No. But the line-up pre kick looks weird.

I agree, onside kicks I liked better before.

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

Causation does not imply correlation

You reversed the order of words here. It’s correlation does not equal causation.

I still don’t understand the new kick offs. Really don’t care too. Just look for a kneel or a run out.

A modern wolf season in MN showed hunter success rate of 4.2%. Not really knocking it out of the park. Trapping was only allowed late season and success rate was 19.7%. Hunting license sales were about 2,800. Trapping licenses sold were 603.

MN DNR report 2013.

https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/recreation/hunting/wolf/2013-wolf-season-report.pdf

https://wisportsheroics.com/green-bay-packers-mark-tauscher-matt-lafleur-vikings/

AMEN. Most annoying jingle ever.

Could have been referring to the common chatter among some deer hunters that if they see a wolf shoot it and let it run off and die. I’ve heard this from multiple people over the years. In the long haul it won’t change anything, hunting wolves doesn’t put much of a dent in the population. Back in the day when they tried to eliminate all wolves in the US the only thing that worked was poison for complete extirpation.

Brittman and James Almquist, you guys aren’t old enough. You need to go back to the 30s and 40s when the acme packers won 10 world championships wearing leather helmets playing in a cow pasture outside Milwaukee.

A lot of variables in the game. Vikings had the better team every day of the season. But better teams can lose. Here’s why I knew the Vikes would win, they got the better coach.

Pitter patter’s tears will splitter splatter as he sits alone thinking what might have been. Then he’ll bring up the acme packers 1917 nfl championship win against the 2 team league shared with the little sisters of the poor.

Look on bright side, drought is long gone. Walleye will spawn good this spring.

A good question is how many wolves will make up the population. I would think they’re about close to topping out with the exception of territory expansion. The biggest killer of wolves is other wolves. A pack will not tolerate other wolves in their territory.

I know when I move up north I won’t be shocked to find a wolf track in the snow.

On the bright side the wolves also kill any coyote they run across.

This same thread pops up at least once a year. The deer hunters are real babies about it. Some of them are my best buddies. Wolves got a right to live a happy life. If I ever see one on the roadside I’m slowing down and throwing a few milk bones out the window.

Hindsight they shoulda signed darnold for 2 years. Prolly could got a good deal.

One thing is, there’s always been wolves in Northern MN, it was the only place in the lower 48 they were never extirpated from. Wolves in MN could go the way of the mountain lion in CA. They closed the hunting season for good back in the 80s. Now the government controls population with hired sharp shooters.

Pitter patter wrote:

Packers win Sunday by 2 touchdowns

Over under on how many penalties and/or verbal altercations with a fan Matty LaFlower gets on Sunday?

I was gonna go big game hunting in Alaska next fall. Then I heard there is a wolf pack up there. I canceled the trip, figure all the big game will be eaten by then.

The nice thing with all this rain and snow, droughts over. Might be a flood again this spring.

I think they need to stock wolves in parts of MN and WI to thin out the overgrown deer populations. Iowa even more so.

So do the coyotes eat deer too?

I think wolves should be managed same as any animal. There is zero wilderness left in the world, therefor everything should be managed.

Either way wolves are here to stay. No reason to be nervous if you see one. You’ve got better odds of winning the powerball and getting struck by lightning in the same day than having a wolf bite you.

Wolves and deer have live together forever. There’s nothing to worry about unless you have a dog.

We did get a pheasant. Sunday afternoon.

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I tried the guys tip where he walks on a frozen lake to hunt the inside edge of the cattails. The dog did get a scent and flush a hen. Maybe if I find a thinner band of cattails it would work better.

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Nice haul.

Doesn’t gas usually drop a lot before every election?