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Great pics Dave...per usual! We suffered thru 40-50 degree temps all season...and any precip was liquid. It definately had an impact on our later season hunting. Good luck on the rest of ML. Keep the fire buring....

Just got back from letting the neighbors dog out. We got about 7 or so inches of snow, and that wind is really blowing. Our back roads are nice and slippery. I bet there will be a few cars in the ditch around here tomorrow morning.

My dad called last night after their trip to Grand Forks to visit my step bro. It took them 10 hours to go from GF to Duluth.

Slush, ice, snow, blowing snow...they had it all. Most of the trip was 35-40 MPH driving.

Wow, that should have been closer to a 7 hour trip. We got by pretty easy on this "storm". It really didn't doo much to us, we maybe got 1.5-2 inches fresh in the driveway at home and my 25 mile trip to work on country roads was uneventful at 60mph, 2 wheel drive.

It's windy but that's about all.

The snow here turned to slush which turned to ice, blowing and snowing like heck right now. Really sick and tired of it already this year.

Lakes were froze up then the snow and slush got to them now we have really bad ice as a base.

Harvest in our zone is down 55% and the DNR is hinting that the herd maybe in some trouble after years of giving out over 5 tags per person. They are especially concerned about winter kill. What a bunch of dumb*&%$), folks around here have been yelling for them to quit putting to many tags.

A lot of us honestly believe the extra tags were due to the TB scare and the DNR wanted to knock the heck out of the surrounding deer herd to the TB zone. Well they succeeded.

Anyway received a gutted out 10/22 in stainless from the Sherpa, he managed to lose all the parts except the receiver, the barrel, and the stock. So I have a new rebuild project, wife just rolled her eyes at the announcement of that project:)

Talk to you all later I am off to send a nasty gram to the DNR.

I've been saying that for years now drift, intense harvest prescribed by DNR backed by one good old fashioned hard winter and things will get very bad for a long time.

weather is pretty bad down here, visibility sucks, got stuck twice on the way to daycare and almost got stuck on the way to school. events are canceling like crazy around here, but not my school, at least not yet

Can't be as bad as the early-mid '70s.

About 4-5 inches here and big time windy.

I wonder how Grizzly Bill is faring stalking the wily whitetail? I hope he has some pics!

Hey, I never heard of any news on ol' Forky Toes. What gives? Any sightings/tracks/gutteral grunts?

I should take a pic of my favorite rooster swamp for you folks. Give you some appreciation for what keeps me from being obese.

whiteout here, all schools closed from grand forks to Fosston.

The wind is bad here. And if it is bad at our house, it is really bad out in the open. We are pretty protected where we live. It is still snowing too.

He just teases us, no sightings yet.

Moon phase is swinging in our favor this weekend. It will be the darkest it's been since opening rifle season weekend.

That'll learn them A-hole nocturnal deers.....

Better yet trip wire and flares at night, pick em up in the morning, that'll learn them. Unless they head to Canada of course:)

They are setting into our area in pretty fair numbers. Really stacking up in the cedars. Must be tired of digging for food already.

I haven't even got a muzzle loader tag yet

I think he said it is usually about 5 hours to Duluth.

Since it is about 250 miles between Duluth and Grand Forks it usually takes about 5 to 5.5 hours depending on traffic on the two lane sections of #2. Road conditions must have been awful for it to take 10 hours.

Even though he's carrying his right rear, he is doing pretty much everything that he always has. I'm hoping he can recover to a point to at least get some use of that leg.

I'm back,

Happy belated birthday Weezie!

We ended up 4 for 6, all bucks. A 4, 6, 7 and 8 point. The 7 pointer was an old guy and had a 17" inside spread. The G2's measured 14".

I didn't get a buck, but did see a number of does.

We saw a total of 47 deer, 14 confirmed bucks.

We had snow on the ground for the entire season and picked up about 3" of new snow while in camp. Daytime Temps were in the mid 30's when we arrived on the 18th and dropped to 11 by Saturday. The lowest nightime temp was 2 above. We went through a bunch of wood this year.

We had a great season and from what I've been told so far is that we did much better then most groups in our area.

This years "Oh S#@T" moment goes to yours truely. I was in the cabin having lunch when there was a knock on the door. The landowner to our South stopped by for lunch and to tell me that he had come past my blind around 11:30 (I left at 11:00) to say hi. When he got there I was gone, but there was a spike buck standing about 60 yards away so he shot it. All I could do was laugh and congradulate him.