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Just got to thinking today, what time of day have you been successful harvesting mature bucks. (4 years old +). I love hunting mornings, but the past few years I haven’t hunted them as often and have been successful hunting less days and killing my target bucks in the evening. I’m wondering if...

I use to feed deer pumpkins and left over apples in the winter from an apple orchard. Annually I would get approximately 3 truck loads of pumpkins and about the same in apples. Deer hammered both. I tried growing pumpkins a few years later. Probably about an acre. Probably half got eaten before...

I have such terrible problems with pigweed and Pennsylvania smartweed I quit trying to plant white clover because by early September it would just be over run by weeds. I clipped the red clover about a month ago to a height of around 10”. It looked awesome, now I can see smartweed beginning to...

For those of you with red clover plots. When are you mowing your last cutting of the year. And at what height are you mowing at?

I did not draw in zone 9 with 2 points. Less then 10 years ago I drew with 1 point. Does anyone have a link with the draw stats?

I’m looking at getting something for our can am defender. I’ve previously used FImco for our 4 wheeler and definitely not going that route again. Looks like a couple good options posters have linked to. Is there anymore feedback on what has and hasn’t worked for you. Pretty sure I want something...

With applications due within the month I doubt anything will change this year then.

Just wondering if anyone knows if the non resident tag allocations stayed the same for the upcoming season.

The funny thing is. They think by allowing more NR to hunt will help lower the deer population? Laughable, these people are not here to shoot does. I am in that category and will gladly wait 2-4 years to draw a tag. There is zero reason to increase the amount of NR tags.

Right! Like I’ve said before, this year in MN in particular area, the Sharpshooters had bait piles out for 17 days before they started shooting over them. And right now they are only shooting Monday-Thursday. I’ve personally seen deer at the piles with no shooters around. There is no way they...

In my opinion, yes. They won’t come out and announce that to the public. They’ll say things like ‘reducing the herd, we don’t wanna shoot every deer, that would be impossible. By reducing the herd we feel like we can limit the spread of cwd’.

We first found cwd on our land 4 years ago. Since then we have found 5 more positives but have harvested over 40 deer. Every single positive looked and acted normal. Would have never been able to tell without a test. The MN DNR claims that if does are found to have it, it’s bad news. It’s not...

Time to allow unlimited buck tags and sharp shooting. Never mind, only in MN.

If this was in MN look out, the DNR would be asking for $4 mil in sharp shooting.

It’s ridiculous. Up to 17 days of bait piles that I’m aware of and still no shooters. I’ve seen more deer in these areas in the past 2 weeks than all year. They are congregating more deer in an area with the baiting. I don’t understand the logic. The deer are also gonna share the same bedding...

I saw that in the outdoor news. What a joke. Someone will get shot if this goes through.

In MN before cwd on our 218 acres we would usually get around 50% of the bucks we hoped to make it another year survive. Now with cwd we are lucky to get 20%. With the extended seasons. No harvest limits on bucks and now sharpshooters. They have been baiting for the last 2 weeks with corn piles...

Thank you all for your input. He went with the Can Am Defender xt

Nice buck! I’ve had great luck shooting hornady 240 gr hollow points with 150 grain 777 pellets. The entry holes are unreal. This is one of the bigger holes. Most are smaller than this. It just explodes the ribs.

My dad is in the market for a side by side. Mainly just general work around he hobby farm. Possibly putting a sprayer in the back. We do have to cross a river to access our farm so something with higher ground clearance would be better. For those that have them, what features do you like and...