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Post by biglakebass on Nov 8, 2017 22:07:25 GMT -6
DNR will gloat on the higher harvest this year. Well duh.... More opps to shoot antlerless deer will add a bunch to the total. Its not that there are so many more deer.
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Post by smsmith on Nov 9, 2017 5:24:16 GMT -6
DNR will gloat on the higher harvest this year. Well duh.... More opps to shoot antlerless deer will add a bunch to the total. Its not that there are so many more deer. Last I heard, total harvest was up 1% with buck harvest down by around 10,000. That isn't going to equate to much of a higher harvest.
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Post by Foggy on Nov 9, 2017 10:06:54 GMT -6
Numbers seemed higher around the Emily area. Many of those deer come from zone 1 to the north. The mild weather had allot of hunters out. It was said to me that they had over 900 deer tested for CWD at the Emily fire station over the weekend. If they do that well at the other points.....that should be nearly 10,000 deer tested for CWD in north central MN. Significant number I'd say. Not sure what the goal was?.....or if they had one??
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 9, 2017 10:15:57 GMT -6
Zone 1 harvest is up 20% from last year.
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Post by batman on Nov 9, 2017 11:52:03 GMT -6
Numbers seemed higher around the Emily area. Many of those deer come from zone 1 to the north. The mild weather had allot of hunters out. It was said to me that they had over 900 deer tested for CWD at the Emily fire station over the weekend. If they do that well at the other points.....that should be nearly 10,000 deer tested for CWD in north central MN. Significant number I'd say. Not sure what the goal was?.....or if they had one?? 3,600 was the goal for central MN. I did not know they were testing there?
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Post by Foggy on Nov 9, 2017 14:31:29 GMT -6
Outdoor News Flash!: Cold, corn may limit firearms deer take. .........yadda yadda. (Thursday front page story in OD News) Sigh/Yawn.
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 9, 2017 14:37:47 GMT -6
Surprised they havent figured out full moon yet.
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Post by batman on Nov 14, 2017 19:21:40 GMT -6
78K bucks taken so far in MN. Last year it was 82K. Herd is down 10%. Fuck show continues here in MN.
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 14, 2017 19:36:37 GMT -6
So much for the 200k harvest. GOOOODDD. Fuck them.
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Post by sd51555 on Nov 14, 2017 19:39:09 GMT -6
No. No. There is a perfectly good explanation for why so few of the one million were taken. Thank goodness we didn’t have wind and rain too. We might have needed a statewide January hunt.
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 14, 2017 19:42:48 GMT -6
I posted that late season hunt thing several days ago..... I can see it coming. If this comes in well under their model prediction, some areas are gonna get the high hard one.
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 21, 2017 20:24:45 GMT -6
Hunters register 161,057 deer through third weekend of season
November 21, 2017
Harvest climbs 16 percent from 2016
Minnesota firearms hunters registered 161,057 deer through the third weekend of deer season, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
Preliminary results through the third weekend show that the number of deer registered was up 16 percent from 2016. Of the deer harvested, 53 percent were bucks, compared to 63 percent during the same period in 2016.
In Zone 1, in northeastern Minnesota, total firearms harvest was up 36 percent. In Zone 2, which covers the majority of the state and runs from Canada to Iowa, harvest was up 10 percent and Zone 3, in southeastern Minnesota, was down 5 percent.
“The conditions were generally good for hunters participating in the last week of the Zone 1 season and for the start of the 3B season in the southeast,” said Erik Thorson, acting big game program leader, “which provided a boost to the statewide firearms harvest.”
Based upon the number of antlerless permits available and the number of permit areas that allow multiple deer to be taken, the DNR is projecting the 2017 total deer harvest to be around 200,000. The 2016 total harvest was 173,213 and to date firearms and archery hunters have harvested about 180,000 deer this year.
In much of Minnesota, the firearms deer season ended Nov. 12, and the northern rifle zone season ended Nov. 19. The late southeast firearms deer season is open through Sunday, Nov. 26. The muzzleloader season begins Saturday, Nov. 25, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 10. More information on deer management can be found at mndnr.gov/deer.
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Post by batman on Nov 21, 2017 20:33:38 GMT -6
Buck harvest down means herd size down.
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Post by smsmith on Nov 21, 2017 20:34:35 GMT -6
Hunters register 161,057 deer through third weekend of season November 21, 2017 Harvest climbs 16 percent from 2016 Minnesota firearms hunters registered 161,057 deer through the third weekend of deer season, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Preliminary results through the third weekend show that the number of deer registered was up 16 percent from 2016. Of the deer harvested, 53 percent were bucks, compared to 63 percent during the same period in 2016.
In Zone 1, in northeastern Minnesota, total firearms harvest was up 36 percent. In Zone 2, which covers the majority of the state and runs from Canada to Iowa, harvest was up 10 percent and Zone 3, in southeastern Minnesota, was down 5 percent. “The conditions were generally good for hunters participating in the last week of the Zone 1 season and for the start of the 3B season in the southeast,” said Erik Thorson, acting big game program leader, “which provided a boost to the statewide firearms harvest.” Based upon the number of antlerless permits available and the number of permit areas that allow multiple deer to be taken, the DNR is projecting the 2017 total deer harvest to be around 200,000. The 2016 total harvest was 173,213 and to date firearms and archery hunters have harvested about 180,000 deer this year. In much of Minnesota, the firearms deer season ended Nov. 12, and the northern rifle zone season ended Nov. 19. The late southeast firearms deer season is open through Sunday, Nov. 26. The muzzleloader season begins Saturday, Nov. 25, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 10. More information on deer management can be found at mndnr.gov/deer. So...using the only data the DNR collects, doesn't that indicate the herd is down 10%?
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 21, 2017 20:37:44 GMT -6
Well harvest is up 16% overall. The percentage of bucks shot is down.
So the herd is the same size.
2017 buck harvest is 85.4k to date 2016 buck harvest was 85.2k to date
Damn they manage well.
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