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ORIGINAL: IFD31

Congrats to all of you who have had luck. I see most of the post are from downstate and I siympathize with your fears over the new rules. As far as the true Northern MI, the UP, it seems the weird year is spread here to, at least in the mid Northern UP where I am,veryfew deer seen, not many does and very scattered results. Mostly smaller bucks seen if anything.Sounds like the DNR will report record or normal results again this year but based on everyone I have spoken to and the reports I have heard ithas been the worse year in a long time by far. Not really sure of the cause but it has been many days in the stand with no deer to see for most. The baiting ban you guys are dealing with inlower MIis headed this way in time whatever reason they use and it will be very interesting to see how it goes. As hard as it is for all the fellow hunters in the lower, from the hunting I have donedownstate, it will be a far more difficult policyto deal with here. Whenever I have hunted downstate there have always been farm fields, food plots, or smaller patches or strips of land tohelp pattern deer without using baits. Not a lot of areaslike that to be found here. Good luck to all and happy hunting. Remember as stated in earlier posts it is not necessarily the kill or even seeing lots of deer that keeps us all in the woods.

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