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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.
But better late than never! I receive quite a bit of email about Deer hunting on public land. Having just came back from a Controlled Hunt on Public Land myself, here are some tips for you that are heading out to hunt Public Land Deer.
From the Duluth News Tribune
No shots were fired by Duluth’s Tom S. Bell, 38, and his longtime friend Tom Schramm, 37, of Esko. The birds were just out of range. But those early flushes were a sign of good things to come on this five-day sharp-tailed grouse and Hungarian partridge hunt in western North Dakota. Bell soon picked up his first sharptail of the morning in low cover near a dry wetland. From the Duluth News Tribune The Rev. Paul Larson, an ardent duck hunter from Deer River, remembers the good old days of bluebill hunting. “It’s nothing like it used to be,” Larson said this past week with Minnesota’s duck season just around the corner. “I used to shoot — oh, from about Oct. 20 to the middle of November — I’d get bluebills all the time. Now, if I get two a year, I’m lucky.” From the Duluth News Tribune Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer reports for Tuesday, Sept. 16 District 5 – Eveleth area CO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls) spent time on wetland issues within the station. Checked grouse hunters and archery deer hunters, very little activity with the rainy weather. Bear hunting activity starting to slow a bit. Handled an injured eagle complaint, the eagle was captured and later sent on a plane to Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota. From the Duluth News Tribune Minnesota bear harvest down Minnesota black bear hunters have shot only about half as many bears as at the same time last year, said Dave Garshelis, bear project leader for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. As of Sept. 11, hunters had killed 1,267 bears this fall, compared with 2,452 at the same time last year, Garshelis said. Minnesota’s bear season opened Sept. 1 and continues through Oct. 14. Garshelis suspects the abundance of natural foods in the woods has kept bears from visiting hunters’ baits as often as in some years. “There’s a lot of natural food, and a lot of it was delayed all summer,” Garshelis said. “Stuff that shouldn’t be around is around now — berries like cherries.” From the Duluth News Tribune Minnesota pheasant hunters will have fewer roosters to chase this fall than last year, but the state’s estimated number of pheasants remains the same as the 10-year average, according to a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources news release. August roadside counts, released Tuesday by the DNR, showed a 24 percent drop in the pheasant index. Biologists blamed the decline on a cool, wet spring, according to the news release. The southwestern part of the state remains the best place to find birds, with many counties estimated to have more than 49 birds per square mile. 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 We know the facts: Ruffed grouse drumming counts were up modestly in both Minnesota and Wisconsin this past spring. Here’s what we don’t know: How did the extended cool, wet weather in early June affect survival of nesting grouse chicks? Mike Larson, grouse biologist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources at Grand Rapids, isn’t worried. Yes, he says, weather can be a factor in local areas. But usually not regionwide or statewide. Ruffed grouse hunting season opens Saturday in Minnesota and Wisconsin. “I’m not a huge believer in weather having a huge effect on grouse,” Larson said. “They’re hardy birds. They’ve evolved with all this stuff.”  c/o Steve Fiske From the Duluth News Tribune Here are some anecdotal reports of ruffed grouse brood sightings this summer from people who spend a lot of time in the woods and on back roads: Doug Nelson, Virginia, grouse hunter and backwoods angler: “This spring, I heard a lot of drumming. … Last Saturday, I jumped two coveys, one with six and one with eight. The birds were small. I’m thinking [the hens] re-nested, so the birds haven’t had a chance to fully mature. I would say [those numbers] are about average.” |
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I guess this should have been written ealier in the year seeing how many States deer hunting season’s are already under way.
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