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there’s an awful lot of deer in area 241. the mix of woods and agriculture is productive and with almost all private land it means less harvest than other areas.

on our 80 acres (2 hunters) in area 241 we’ll shoot an 8pt or better and just take photos of the smaller ones. if the nicer bucks outsmart us we take a doe for the freezer. we’ve been successful on a shooter buck 4 of the last 5 years without needing the state to mandate it for us in spite of being surrounded by other private land hunters. we did notice fewer does this year, but i suspect that has more to do with a long winter than DNR hunting rules.

if you want your neighbors to change their habits, try talking to them. we don’t need more laws!

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Exactly. I agree.

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I can live with APR what I can’t live with is the slaughtering of the doe’s.

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In MN you are not going to get it both ways. The problem is that some folks want this statewide, not just in the SE part of the state. I have no horse in this race regarding the SE, but hunting traditions, family traditions, and mostly the monies involved in deer hunting, are not going to allow it to be both ways, especially statewide. Incidentally, I came over to this forum for exactly the issues of this topic that got out of control, IMHO, on another MN regional forum. I mean, does it mean we have to go back what we had in around 1971 where there was no deer hunting season at all because of the lack of does? Not now, especially in the area I hunt. Lots of does this year in that area, which is not in SE MN. Randy W. called it right with the comment(s) about habitat, and the lack thereof. Folks need to start looking at this, and quit restricting deer hunting further with APR, and other changes. Just my .02

My first post here, but I have been registered on the IDO fishing forum, for awhile. Famous Grouse, I started deer hunting the exact same day you did. I was 17 years old. It will never get old for me, and it never will. I had to sit out this year due to dealing with a work injury that happened this summer. It’ll make looking forward to next year that much more special, because of just what you posted about.