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by Moultrie Feeders -By Brandon Wikman Summer is a time when hunters hone their archery skills and try to outdo their shooting performance from last year. It is an ideal time to tweak, tick, and twiddle with new gear or accessories. The summer drags most archers into their front yard or local shooting range to plunk away on bag, block, or 3D targets. I’ve learned that it is crucial to your practice regimen that you invest efforts into piercing arrows in the correct target at the correct time. by Moultrie Feeders -By Brandon Wikman Summer seems to strike a golden chord with savvy archers awaiting the opener. It is a time when we prep ourselves mentally and physically for the dawning of a new season that lies only weeks ahead. Our goals are set, anticipation is high, and now we sit tight, holding on to last year’s cherished memories. These recollections will soon evolve into this year’s fresh moments of enlightenment as we move into the later stages of summer. From the Duluth News Tribune Minnesota’s moose hunters took 111 bull moose in this fall’s Northeastern Minnesota moose season, which ran Oct. 4 to 19. Tags were issued to 237 parties hunting in 30 zones. Hunting success was 47 percent. Last year, moose hunters took 115 moose for a 50 percent success rate. For the second year, the hunt was for bulls only. Several thousand parties apply for Minnesota moose licenses each year. Since 1991, the hunt has been a once-in-a-lifetime hunt. This year, 2,706 parties applied for moose hunting permits. Minnesota’s moose population is estimated at 7,600. Corn coming out slowly From the NorthlandNewsCenter.com
Minnesota conservation officers are literally coming under fire this hunting season. A recent DNR report says three game wardens have been nearly hit by accidental gun discharges. One of those incidents happened near Grand Marais when a moose hunter accidentally fired his rifle just before an officer started checking licenses. Russ Isola is a Minnesota DNR trained gun safety instructor. He thinks all hunters should take a safety course that would reduce the dangers conservation officers and other hunters face in the field from improper gun handling. “The hunter education program definitely corrects that!” says Isola. From the Duluth News Tribune If license sales are any indication, deer hunters in part of Northeastern Minnesota are excited about the upcoming early antlerless firearms deer hunt. The hunt, Oct. 11-12, is being held to bring deer populations closer to goals set by the Department of Natural Resources. This is the first time an early-season firearms antlerless hunt has been held in Northeastern Minnesota. It will be held in permit areas 178, 180, 181 and 182, bounded roughly by Duluth, Floodwood, Hibbing, Virginia, Brimson and Silver Bay. Licenses still are available. “We’re doing really good on selling licenses for the early antlerless season,” said Tasha Stewart of Chalstrom’s Bait and Tackle just north of Duluth. From the Duluth News Tribune A number of rules have changed this fall in both Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here are the highlights. 1. A new deer-hunting season in Minnesota. As announced earlier this fall, the state will hold an antlerless deer season the weekend of Oct. 11-12 in four deer management units around and north of Duluth. The units are 178, 180, 181 and 182. This is a firearms season aimed at bringing down deer populations deemed too high. Your regular firearms deer license will work for this season, but you’ll need to buy special antlerless-only permits specifically for this hunt. They’re $7.50 each, available at license outlets, and they’re good for this hunt only. From the Duluth News Tribune The early antlerless firearms deer season in areas near Duluth also will include bowhunters, according to Roger Tietz, operations support manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Little Falls, Minn. “If an archer out there wants to buy that $7.50 permit, we’re going to let them do it,” Tietz said. Tietz said it was not the DNR’s intent that bowhunters take part in the early antlerless hunt, but wording about the hunt did not specifically exclude them. He said the DNR probably will change the wording next year, so that only firearms hunters may take part in that hunt. |
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