Hunted north of Hayward, conditions miserable, but we found some success. I shot a decent 8 pointer at 7:10 opening day. The only deer I saw all season (hunted til Wed.). My brother shot a doe and a fork with a 14" spread, and my opther brother shot 2 nice does. The DNR aged 2 of the does at 8-1/2 years old! He showed us the teeth and explained how they determined age. Pretty impressive to have deer live that long up there. But hunting was actually pretty slow. Between the 3 of us, we saw 11 deer through Wed.