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Outdoor Life

RedWedge

(618 posts)

9. Arrowhead of Minnesota.

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 03:58 PM

Dec 2016

First day of the season it was 65 degrees; last day it was 25 and snow -- good for the weasels.

Always lots of opinions around shooting does. Our population has had a tough go of it the last few years with harsh winters and lots of wolves, but there are definitely pockets of overpopulation.

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After 2-yr. lull, I finally get a deer.... [View all] Eleanors38 Nov 2016 OP

Congratulations! glad your hunt was successful (and your freezer is stocked)... petronius Nov 2016 #1

Thanks. The work is getting to me, though! Eleanors38 Nov 2016 #2

Being the nice guy that I am, ManiacJoe Nov 2016 #3

Thanks! Heading to Uvalde County this month to go for another. Eleanors38 Nov 2016 #4

Congratulations! Tag soup for me again this year. RedWedge Dec 2016 #5

I loved seeing the beleagured Monarch buterflies flitting about.. Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #6

White weasels and plenty of songbirds here, along with the does who were safe because RedWedge Dec 2016 #7

Texas has encouraged the taking of does so as to suppress populations... Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #8

Arrowhead of Minnesota. RedWedge Dec 2016 #9

Jeez, the temp will plunge there in a few days! It is finally turning chilly in Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #10

We had a ridiculously warm November, second-warmest on record IIRC. Nothing was moving those RedWedge Dec 2016 #11

I work with a TPWD biologist on my MLD3 lease meathead Dec 2016 #12

Thanks! I have also read where taking older "trophy does" is preferred, but for different... Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #13