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Going back up to Brainerd this season. Hopefully it's an action packed opener again

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i saw 24 in the last two evenings. 8 bucks but nothing big enough. most still had velvet. my buddy shot a small 8 in velvet with his 5yr old in the stand with him

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We have a little over 24 hours till shooting hours. Im gonna be putting down my bow for the next couple weeekends and try my new shot gun out . Good luck everyone

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I'll be out with a new gun as well! Should be fun! Good luck!

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Anybody fill their tags this weekend?

I got my first deer this year. A 6 point buck. Got it at 7am opening morning. It pretty much ran right up to me and stopped lol

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I got skunked, saw a few does but they were out of range and out of bounds.

Hopefully get back up there this Sunday. Deer just weren't moving this weekend

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Yeah it was super windy Saturday. My uncle didn't think we were even going to see any deer. But i got mine in the morning and he got a nice 8 pointer out of the same stand in the evening. I'm just happy I actually got to shoot my new gun this year lol. Here's a pic

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Nice Bucks!

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I thought there was a point limit in MN? 4 points on 1 side in order to shoot?

I had a nice 9 pointer under my stand on Saturday morning but smaller than everything I have on the wall so I let it walk. My dad ended up shooting it. Havent seen anything but does.

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I saw one buck today... dead, in the back of an open trailer. I swear it was looking at me! So I changed lanes.

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LOLWUT no.

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I also got skunked. Im going back out friday and trying a different part of the property. I just picked up my alys deer from the processor. She killed her first deer with her bow a few weeks ago.

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Thanks!

Definitely never heard of that. At least not in the zone we hunt. I know lots of 4 and 6 points have been taken off of my uncles land over the years

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Thats an odd rule, but I did just check it out, in zone 3 I guess you have to have 4points on one side atleast in order to take it. Weird.

It was the slowest opener for our group yet, hunting way up by bigfork. The numbers are way down in general up there but it was very cold, snowy and windy.

Despite that I saw 3 deer - First I only saw a glimpse of the first day, shot a bigger spike buck the 2nd yesterday - pretty crazy shot off into some evergreens barely had chance to react as I saw it walking into an opening. Saw another 4 point buck, had it in my crosshairs for 20 seconds, but let it go today as I was ground stalking while someone else used my stand.

Between 4 of us, im the only one to get one, my dad saw one behind his stand yesterday, otherwise 2 other guys saw nothing.

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Yeah thats my zone... I thought it was the whole state, sorry, my fault on that. Its actually a nice rule in my eyes. We do a lot of deer management in my area and never take a buck without 4 points on one side or if the antlers are not outside the ears unless its your first deer or first buck at least. As far as does go, if its brown, its down. We try to get as much meat as we can for the winter.

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Wierd. I'm in 227, so it's almost always intensive harvest, which is basically kill everything.

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I hunt in 276. We have to apply for doe permits but we were too late getting our licenses. So with no doe permits that meant anything with antlers was going down

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Yea all four of us had got the doe lottery, which is rare, but none of us saw any haha.

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Pickchars or it didn't happen

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Here are pix

View from my stand of where I shot it, center in the very back trees openings.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k...110_073129.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0...1108022524.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9...2/IMG_3227.JPG



Cant beat the north woods.
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