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Anybody in here hunt in MN, if so anywhere near Big Stone Lake

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I hunt moslty around that area. Mostly for ducks wildlife's by Beardsley Browns Valley, I have some private and other public land I hunt on south of Clinton, and also hunt Big Stone Lake and Traverse later in the season when the diver's come down. For geese I hunt between Beardsley and Graceville all the way down to Ortonville.

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I hunt by Winona dont know if that is close or not.

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We hunt near Graceville, somtimes north of Beardsley, have you gotten any good bluebill shoots last couple of years jlb66? We haven't seen many on BS but we sure do whack the spoonies

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No not north of Beardsley I haven't gotten into anything as far as bluebills go. We have a cabin on Big Stone and get a few out there later in the year but most of my bluebill shooting last year came from over by Clinton. I hunt mostly public during the week but as soon as the weekend rolls aroudn I go private all the time. I don't like crowds.

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I'm from Mankato and I usually hunt on swan and middle lake but we hunt divers up near alexandria.

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I'm from around Hutchinson atown called Brownton. Mostly Wooducks, Teal, and Mallards butgreat tho got 12 Wooducks and1 Mallard this opener of 2005.

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I hunt in otsego mn on a state land pond we did pretty good this past weekend(by my standards atleast)

SAT: 4 wodies 2 mallards and 2 teal

SUN: 2 honkers 3 teal 1 mallard

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Hey all you southern boys,
The migration is coming, we have sleet and cold rain up here in Duluth
I am looking at this coming week being the peak of the migration.

Nick
PS if anyone needs anything along the lines of optics (rifle scopes, night vision,Binoculars and range finders) let me know, I just started at Optics4hunting.com and I will give free shipping to anyone on huntingnet.
Just call or email and ask for Nick.

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Sat.- 7 ducks, 1 goose
Sun- 3 Ducks
2 guys
West of Graceville, jb66, are there a lot of ducks in the are after this cold push up north? Hope so, planning on hunting up there again, 2nd weekend is always tough to get ducks, very wary, hoping some new ducks aroudn

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About the last 4 good weekends of the season we hunt on Big Stone, very good shoots of mixed bag, lots of spoonbills too. But close to20ducks or so a day once it really gets cold

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Don't know I've been working to DAMN much. South of Clinton there is a few birds but not nearly as many as last year although my dad and I limited out both saturday and sunday between 30-50 minutes to get our limits and we shot horribly bad. I'll be going out scouting tomorrow so I should be able to find so and see how the cold effected them hopfully it will be a good effect and not a bad one. I tlaked to some guys from Iowa up here hunting and they're hunting down west of Graceville and they got 7 mallards. I never got specifics I guess I never asked either since I have my own honey holes.

Where at about on Big Stone? Do you guys hunt on that big point just south of Mallard point? I always see guys hunting down there I can acctually watch them through my binoculars from where I hunt on Big Stone. Yeah where I hunt on Big Stone I can limit out every day but am usually very selective and only trophy hunt when the big flights come down, one day two years ago it took me about 5 minutes to shoot 6 ducks out thereand about 20 minutes to put out and bring in decoys so 40 minutes of work for 5 minutes of shooting. It was crazy.

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As a matter of fact, thats us. By those weekends we hunt in large groups, you know 7-8 guys, never complete the full limit but you know, 20-30 ducks a day, if we're lucky some redheads, but mostly spoonies.We don't deer hunt and those are the best weekends, one year the lake was iced up and we kept a hole open with the boat, god we would be retrieving ducks in the boat and ducks would land on top of the boat, unbelievable how safe they felt in those big numbers and how bad they wanted the water, throats full of corn and need water. Man 2nd weekend this year, seemed like all the ducks were gone, but then you drive by a private slough and you know where they went. Our family has cabins at the end of the road from Mallard Point, the point we hunt is about another mile down. How are numbers now, planning on coming up, I suppose not a lot on the lake yet, but debated going to the sloughs or hunting the lake, hunting the lake is pretty lazy compared to trudging into a slough.

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Excuse me, were north a couplemiles or so, I misread, but either way we're close to you I suppose

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I talked to a guy in the hardware store up here today and he said that last saturday his party had 14 guys hunting and they limited out on Bluebills and Cans on Lake Traverse so they're starting to come down but I suppose it will be a while until they're really down here. I'll keep you posted.

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Coming this weekend to hunt on the lake, hoping cold pushed em. Should have.

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I was out there this morning and there were quite a few bulebills on the lake all right smack dab in the middle and we had about 8 cans come in to the decoys just a little far out they came in right almost at the end of my decoy lineso we never got ashot at any. I won't be able to get out there for another week now which REALLY SUCKS!!!!! So please try not to shoot them all this coming weekend.