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Post by wklman on Sept 17, 2019 15:08:49 GMT -6
Don't like youth hunts. Make them earn it like everybody else. Teaches them patience and fair play when they have to do it in the regular season.
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 17, 2019 15:18:22 GMT -6
Big buck sightings are down in my specific areas. Usually some new ones arrive in October though, so there is a chance something better will swing by eventually.
There is a good crop of 2 year old bucks down here that will likely get mowed down shortly with the 3 buck tags and no APR's in our zone.
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Post by smsmith on Sept 17, 2019 16:56:22 GMT -6
Don't like youth hunts. Make them earn it like everybody else. Teaches them patience and fair play when they have to do it in the regular season. I agree.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 17, 2019 19:02:26 GMT -6
Not a super fan of youth hunts during MEA in my area. Lots of pheasant hunters will now have to compete with youth gun hunters. Can’t the kids bow hunt with their dad?
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 18, 2019 8:08:28 GMT -6
Not a super fan of youth hunts during MEA in my area. Lots of pheasant hunters will now have to compete with youth gun hunters. Can’t the kids bow hunt with their dad? I agree. However , I was visiting with my brother in law and he said his two youngest are very excited over the youth hunt. Dad and the kids don’t bowhunt but are into guns. They hunt their own farm and I am glad to see kids all fired up over Deer. I guess it is ok.
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Post by daydreamer on Sept 18, 2019 8:15:02 GMT -6
I'm a little biased this year as my daughter is 10 and can participate in the youth hunt for the first time. She's not strong enough to pull 40 pounds on her bow so we'll be pulling the xbow out during youth season.
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 18, 2019 8:16:03 GMT -6
I would love the head in the sand approach but all the changes further handcuff me so if I don't want to break the law I have to pay attention as the wind brings in more laws every season here I swear. Oh, there are changes every year here too. I follow the laws, I just don't spend much time worrying about them. No more salt/mineral stations here as of 9/1/19. Pisses me off, but there isn't shit I can do about it....so, oh well I had an interesting discussion with a farmer. I need to take down some box elder around an old pole shed. He says to spread salt on the freshly cut stump and all around the stump to kill it. That might be worth a try around some unwanted box elder in other locations.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 18, 2019 8:42:36 GMT -6
I'm a little biased this year as my daughter is 10 and can participate in the youth hunt for the first time. She's not strong enough to pull 40 pounds on her bow so we'll be pulling the xbow out during youth season. There are certain zones and counties where I think a youth hunt makes sense. Northern counties with good deer numbers, SE MN. Iowa has a youth hunt and it is popular, they have a lot of deer! I just do not like it in farm country for a couple reasons. Pheasants hunters lose access to public (won't bother me as I do not hunt public) but this is what I hear from others. Guys like the opening day to be opening day, not the second go around. Like I said it won't affect me, just what I am hearing. In the grand scheme of things will it matter much--I guess not.
As a bow hunter, I just hate to see another gun season during a popular bow weekend. I think MN will keep adding gun seasons to the point that archery guys will have to wear orange about every other weekend.
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Post by daydreamer on Sept 18, 2019 9:16:17 GMT -6
As a bow hunter, I just hate to see another gun season during a popular bow weekend. I think MN will keep adding gun seasons to the point that archery guys will have to wear orange about every other weekend.
I hate this! I hunt in the metro 701 zone so I feel like I have to wear orange most of the season! You reminded me we'll have to wear orange during youth season. Drives me crazy, especially on private land.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 18, 2019 14:27:35 GMT -6
I know I cannot get used to wearing orange with a bow, drives me nuts!
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Post by batman on Sept 18, 2019 14:30:15 GMT -6
I have worn orange a bunch bowhunting. Red plaid is my staple. Deer dont seem to care?
Is it not state law to wear an orange hat going to and from the tree?
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Post by daydreamer on Sept 18, 2019 14:35:42 GMT -6
I don’t think the deer give two shits but I hate being more visible to other people. Hunters or passerby’s for that matter.
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Post by Coda1 on Sept 20, 2019 11:10:56 GMT -6
When I started hunting in the early 90's there was no benefits for youth. I had to apply for a doe permits like everyone else and licenses were full price. I agree with allowing youth to take a doe and free/reduced prices licenses. Special hunts in state parks are fine but I don't like the early youth firearms season statewide. I screws up the regular opener and also bow season. Maybe that will be good with less deer shot overall.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 20, 2019 12:38:00 GMT -6
They offered youth duck hunts in MN and duck hunter numbers are down ever since. Not saying that was the reason but It didn’t help.
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Post by chummer16 on Sept 20, 2019 13:40:20 GMT -6
Youth hunts are probably fine if you don’t have a group of 20 hunters next to you that use it as an excuse for another weekend of drives and shooting any spike they can kick up. I really need new neighbors.
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