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Hey guys, not much going on in South Eastern Mn, either. Just wondering if you guys are using any scents yet, and if you are, what are you using? I made my first mock scrape of the year last night (6th of October). I used some Primetime doe urine in the scrape, but I forgot to put anything on the licking branch.[:@] I am finding a ton of rubs, but not a whole lot of scrapes. Anyone using a drag rag yet?

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BigDaddy12t where about in S.E. MN are ya from?

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I live in Austin, and work in Grand Meadow. How about you?

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Born, raised, and still living in Rochester.

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I'm north of bemidji, and have been watching bucks sparring in my field lately. Had 29 deer in field lasst night and had 3 matches going on at one time. Neat to watch. A few scrapes in my pasture, but just territorial markings. Bowhunted near nestor Falls Ontario this past weekend, and scrapes/rubs were everywhere. I passed on 9 smaller bucks and had a 140" class come near, but no shot offered. Hopefully this weekend he'll come by again. happy hunting! Taz

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Hello BiggDaddy12 do you know of any decent WMA's to bow hunt in the area? I lived in Austin for 6yrs. My wife is from Brownsdale and we now live in Geneva. I started bow hunting again after a long break and that was in WI were I was raised. Any help would be appreciated.

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Taz, Ive hunted the Bemidji area the past few years. Down around the Schoolcraft Refuge on private land. Wont be going back, I lost my connection to the land. Good area up there though, so Im not surprised when you say you saw 20+ deer in the field. Good luck to ya!

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Check out the MN DNR link below...
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/wmas/county_list.html?mode=itemfeaturequery&slayer= counties&qitem=cty_abbr&qstring=MOWE&m ap=/usr/local/www/docs_maps/wildlife/wma/county_list.map

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Congrats Tribal &Rackluster on your success! (and everyone else who scored)
I had some luck this weekend! I shot a nice doe on Saturday night. I was sitting in the oaks & she was with two others, a button buck and smaller doe, eating every acorn in sight. Her stomach was FULL with the normal browse and a ton of acorns.Can't wait to get back out this weekend..
Good luck everyone!!

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New guy to forums from MN as well. I live in the east metro but hunt up north near Wolf Lake.

Saw a few does up and about but no buck activity yet.

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Hey guys Northern Mn checking in and its been slow!!! i dont know about anyone else but SLOW last yr we had tons of pictures and now we have the same 4 deer coming in... Normally this time of year evenign hunts are great but now i'm not seeing deer till dark and later..

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im heading out tomorrow morning into the SW metro. I havent seen anything notable so far this season but im hoping that tomorrow shows more promise. Has anyone noticed any patterns so far? when theyre moving? what theyre eating? anything?

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i'm taking tomorrow off to hunt too. i'll be nw of the cities, just north of becker. i shot a doe out of this stand the last time i hunted it so we'll see....

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Good luck to all the MN hunters out there this weekend. Looks like the weather is about to cool off again for us. Gonna make for some good action comin up, and you gotta love that!!

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Finally saw 3 deer just before dark last night. Saw lots more wolf sign so I knew that was part of the reason.

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You guys are all driving me nuts here with all the hunting your doing!! I've been out only once so far, still a tad early yet but It's getting closer!

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Hey, any of you guys doing any calling yet? I always say that I am going to wait until late October to start calling, but it seems like I can never wait. I had a little buck come into the woods tonight just before dark, it looked like he was going to walk straight away from me, so I figured I woiuld play with him a little. I made some small buck grunts to him, and he acted like he never even heard them, but I know he had to. I turned to put my grunt tube away, and when I turned back around, he was gone, I have no idea where he went.
So what are you guys doing now as far as calls, anything?

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I've been tickling the antlers for ****s and giggles, also grunting a little. Nothing to write home about yet, still a bit early.

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Has anyone been out hunting during the week, while us poor slobs in the city anxiously wait for the weekend?
Hows the deer movement? Rubs/scrapes? Anything happening?

Thanks guys!

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I was In the woods today and threw a stand up. I'm liking it too, very excited about this spot!! I need the right wind though, South wind please!!!!???

Back to your question after I got the stand up I found a nice rub (baseball size) that was just made In the last week and I found a few scrapes as well. The scrapes are going to be tough to find being the leaves are coming off the tree's. I'm sure there's more there then were seeing, there just covered In leaves.

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I have been finding rubs and scrapes for the past couple of weeks around here, nothing real big tho. Seems like every time I get out, I find a few more rubs.

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Are you guys hunting those rub lines? maybe following them to a thicket/bedding area and setting up near there for evening hunts for a buck to come out? (Or for a buck to go in the thicket in the morning?)

Thanks
Parker

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Well yes and no. I have a couple of stands set up close by some of these rubs, but I am not setting up on purpose on them. I kind of know where the rubs and scrapes have been year after year, so I have always made sure that I have a stand someplace close by.

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Nope. The stand I just put up Is more of a look out then anything. If a few more rubs happen In the same area/trail as the other big rub I might get a little more excited about It then and maybe change it up a little and hunt the trail with the rub line.

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Anyone down a big buck yet??

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Just a couple of does.
I saw more deer in Minneapolis on Sunday than3 of us did hunting this past weekend.. Nothing doing by our place NE of Hinkley.
We do have some nice pics of a couplenice 8pointer, and a great looking 10 pointer in our clover fields over the last couple weeks. All pics are at night of course..
My dad & I are going up tonight to hunt before the gun hunt starts Saturday. Hopefully we can figure out wherethose big guysare at before Saturday comes and get him on the pole for the gun hunters to look at..
Best of luck to everyone!

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I’m getting quite a few pictures of bucks (60+ over the last week), 4 of which I would shoot. Hunted Sunday and didn’t see anything. On the way home I clipped a fawn with my truck.

On Tuesday last week i had a nice 10 point chasing two does around right outside my window at work. I could stand up in my cube and see them. that was cool. Saw an 8 from my cube earlier that same morning. kills me to see that stuff at work.

good luck this weekend everyone...

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Minnesota is where I learned to hunt and where I will always hunt !

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Well it has been a while since I was on here October was a bad month. Our moose hunting trip turned into a survival trip when our hunting partners rooled over ther canoe 15 miles back in and lost there one bag that had the clothes for both of them in.The warter temp was in the upper 40's and the air temp was in the low 40's with a 45 mph wind that picked up. After we got home I found my construction trailer with 15,000 worth of tools stolen and my garage broken into and my bow gone. Anyway I went and got a new DXT and got her sighted in last week and went hunting for the first time in a month on sat. When I went to call themy friend that isthe groundskeeper at the golf course I hunthe said that they couldn't allow hunting anymore until he cot a injury waiver form from there attoerney for me to sign and I have been hunting there for two years. Well with the gun opener I had no really good spots to sit so I went and asked a member of the golf course where I hunt if I could hunt her property and they said yesso I went and scouted the 10 aceras found a spot went and bought a stand hung the stand and went and got my bow. After an hour in the stand I could herea buck grunting his head of in the distance alomost like a tom turkey in the spring. After a few bleats on my MAD bleat tube he came at a dead run. He stoped 4 yds from the base of my tree and I was able to catch both lungs he went 20yds and piled up the rage 2 blade did the trick again. He had a lot of ground shrinkage but it is still my biggest bow buck and my first buck in 2 years so I am extremely happy with him.


Ps Schultzy i could use a hand with the pics again

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My hunting has been somewhat slow but my brother Is having an Incredible year seeing big bucks this year. In the last week he has seen 4 different P&Y bucks. Smallest being 125" to 130" and the biggest In that 160" range. He had the big guy at 15 yards twice but no shot!![:@][:@] His area he's hunting Is getting all tore up, scrapes every where. Its a gold mind right now. He don't think the doe's are ready yet though. I'm thinking with In a couple days all hell Is going to break loose. I hope my own luck changes, I'm not satisfied with the size of bucks I'm seeing yet.

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Mike (mconwa951) asked me to post his buck he got this year bow hunting. Great looking buck I'd say!! Congratulation's Mike!! Here's his story and picture.


Well it has been a while since I was on here October was a bad month. Our moose hunting trip turned into a survival trip when our hunting partners rooled over ther canoe 15 miles back in and lost there one bag that had the clothes for both of them in.The warter temp was in the upper 40's and the air temp was in the low 40's with a 45 mph wind that picked up. After we got home I found my construction trailer with 15,000 worth of tools stolen and my garage broken into and my bow gone. Anyway I went and got a new DXT and got her sighted in last week and went hunting for the first time in a month on sat. When I went to call themy friend that isthe groundskeeper at the golf course I hunthe said that they couldn't allow hunting anymore until he cot a injury waiver form from there attoerney for me to sign and I have been hunting there for two years. Well with the gun opener I had no really good spots to sit so I went and asked a member of the golf course where I hunt if I could hunt her property and they said yesso I went and scouted the 10 aceras found a spot went and bought a stand hung the stand and went and got my bow. After an hour in the stand I could herea buck grunting his head of in the distance alomost like a tom turkey in the spring. After a few bleats on my MAD bleat tube he came at a dead run. He stoped 4 yds from the base of my tree and I was able to catch both lungs he went 20yds and piled up the rage 2 blade did the trick again. He had a lot of ground shrinkage but it is still my biggest bow buck and my first buck in 2 years so I am extremely happy with him.

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Thats a great buck, congrats Mike! So anyone else still hunting? Seeing anythng? I will be out this weekend with the bow, and then starting next weekend, I will be hunting with my ML for the first time ever. Cant wait, hopefully I can connect on a late season buck.

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I'm still at It. I'm seeing deer, just nothing I care to shoot. Tough and frustrating year for myself this year.

Good luck on your ML hunt BigD!!:)

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I am seeing more this last week than I have all season. Granted I am on a small parcel but one buck chasing and one other with his nose to the ground and one more that I only caught a glimpse of. So for me things have been much better than the earlier.

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i'm still hunting too. it's not looking good. i'm down to one or two hunts a week until the end of the year.

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Anyone still at it? Any luck or sightings? I'll try this weekend up north and then down near Albert Lea during xmas week.
Has anyone hunted the WMA's near Albert Lea before?

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Went out this weekend and shot a nice doe at dark on 12/13. Found her about half hour before it started to snow. We got 15 inches of snow up there before it stopped. Very happy we found her quickly.

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Hey there I'm from northern Minnesota. The Bemidji area, what's up guys?

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It's getting cold as hell lately, I know that much!!:D I bear hunt north of you up by Northhome. You all are lucky that live In northern Mn, I'd love to live up there. I live In central Mn, It's nothing like the northern woods.

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Congratulation's parker on getting a doe!! 15" of snow, wow!! We just 8" the other day so deer hunting should get better. I'm still at It hoping to at least shoot a doe being the big bucks pretty much avoided my but this year. I only have one tag In the area I hunt so I better get on It and hopefully shoot myself a doe.