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No pigs up here. I'm not sure why, if the exist in Russia I'm sure our temps wouldn't be a problem for the right kind of pig.

I had one out in 'sconny a few years ago and it was gone the next week. We couldn't figure out who would have taken an opened mineral block....I found it about 30 yards from my blind and about 50 yards in the oposited direction that it was supposed to be. Had to be bears. It was partially chewed or clawed up.

Back in the day, a Minnesota hunter could hang his deer tag on a beer if he so chose.

Is this still true?

Brent

Nope, you gotta get bear tag and the seasons do not overlap.

Used to be able to shoot wolves all deer season also.

too bad you can't anymore

WI used to be like that as well. Not anymore. Seperate tags.

They have ferral hogs over in the SW cornor of WI. Haven't heard much about them lately. The DNR has a shoot on site, no limit order out on them.

Thats the way it is here to shoot on sight or at least you had better.


Hey wheres the fuzzy wind chime pics?

The count down has started; tick, tick....tick.

6 days to the WI opener. 3 days and we leave for camp. My clothes are all packed.

SIL wom a TC Pro Hunter FX .50 Cal in a raffle. The FX has a non replaceable barrle.

just got my new custom 700 in 7wsm sighted in, first group after sight in was .418" with factory ammo bwahaha. 24" pac nor barrel, vias break, lone wolf stock. weighs all of 6lb 15 oz... with scope and kicks less than my 7-08 hehe.

I like em .284s!

im turning into such a skeezer for the 284's ALthough i LOVE my dirty 30's this makes a hell of a companion to my 700 sendero 300 RUM :-D

Those are nice...and not cheap. Though, I'm not sure why you'd want that style if you can't change out the barrel. There are better, lighter options IMO, if you're not going to swap barrels.

Me too.

I fired 3 shots this season & ended up with 4 venisons. I have been accused of being frugal before but I think this is getting a little out of hand.....

fixed it for ya

Fancy dang trick shooter.

Well another firearm deer season in Minnesota is in the books for me. It was a great season, yet I am eating tag soup. this last weekend was pretty anticlimatic....save for one brief period when i had Mr. Buford, the big 6 pointer, come chasing in a doe and i mistook him for a big'un. The heartrate accelerated a mite, but in the end, nothng.

I did see a snowy owl, which is certainly a highlight of this year's hunt. also, the pheasant population is much better than anticipated. I got the kids out, which was fun. All in all, a very enjoyable year.

On the bad side, my wife's gramma died last night. She was known as "The Fun Gramma". She once took the kids to Valley Fair...and stayed until midnight...with a 2 hour drive to get back home. Now that is a fun Gramma, eh? It was a blessing as she had dementia and didnt recognize anyone.

So Chickenbuckers, how are you enjoying the 2011 version of Deer Huntin' in the northwoods? Any good stories that need airing?

Hey Bill....are you sure you packed your knife? You better go through and repack everything again!

We're saving the best for last. The weather man says winter will be here by the weeks end.

So we're going to get out and do some of that old fashioned cold and snowy MN deer hunting during this "second week of deer camp"

I may take thurdsay and Friday off, get a jump on it and hit the woods harder than I have up to this point for 2011.

The deer haven't exactly been coming to me this year so I guess I have to put some miles on the boots and bring me to them.