Outdoor Minnesota Deer Photo's

[Mike89]

and sad too..

[Wanderer]

Good luck this weekend for those going out.  Smurfy must be dragging a biggun outta da Chippewa this week.

 

Some are saying the movement kept increasing for them this week but my cams have gone cold the past couple days.  We’ll see how she goes!

[Kettle]

Friends around Grand Rapids have done pretty well, nothing big regarding bucks though. Further north all I've head are bad reports. Seeing a lot of does when I drive around during the day but have only seen one buck during the day the past few weeks. Have a friend that's a trooper so when I need venison I just get a car hit one. 

[Wanderer]

1 hour ago, Kettle said:

 Have a friend that's a trooper so when I need venison I just get a car hit one. 

Need tips on hitting your own?

[leech~~]

6 hours ago, Kettle said:

Friends around Grand Rapids have done pretty well, nothing big regarding bucks though. Further north all I've head are bad reports. Seeing a lot of does when I drive around during the day but have only seen one buck during the day the past few weeks. Have a friend that's a trooper so when I need venison I just get a car hit one. 

I joke around with my wife all the time.  Look honey that's a fresh one, the legs are only a few inches off the ground! She like, we're not picking up road kill!! 

[Wanderer]

3 hours ago, leech~~ said:

I joke around with my wife all the time.  Look honey that's a fresh one, the legs are only a few inches off the ground! She like, we're not picking up road kill!! 

Back when we had to bring the deer in to register it, I went to town with one and came back with three.  My wife was impressed!

 

They weren’t there when I went in but were when I came back so they didn’t have time to rise yet.  

[leech~~]

3 hours ago, Wanderer said:

Back when we had to bring the deer in to register it, I went to town with one and came back with three.  My wife was impressed!

 

They weren’t there when I went in but were when I came back so they didn’t have time to rise yet.  

I told her what's the problem? Theres whole cook books down south on how to cook road kill coon and possum! 

[Kettle]

12 hours ago, Wanderer said:

Need tips on hitting your own?

I do my best to not hit deer. I definitely see deer daily where I live driving. Was it you who recently hit one?

[Wanderer]

21 hours ago, Kettle said:

Was it you who recently hit one?

 It was.  First one in a long time - but not my first one…

[Kettle]

It's bound to happen unfortunately, glad you're doing okay

 

Edited November 17 by Kettle

[smurfy]

On 11/12/2024 at 8:49 AM, leech~~ said:

You didn't Sluice um!

I was driving 94 passed Runnings in Monticello yesterday late after noon and saw a huge, thick dark brown 8 point running alone the freeway with its tongue out.  Thinking he was after a girlfriend!

I have a hood friend that lives maybe 2 blocks from that Runnings to the east. He's right on the edge of a wooded area, I bet that's one of the bucks he feeds. 

 

I was at his place not long ago and seen 5 different deer, maybe that 8 but he said there's 1 bigger  

[smurfy]

On 11/14/2024 at 5:30 PM, Wanderer said:

Good luck this weekend for those going out.  Smurfy must be dragging a biggun outta da Chippewa this week.

 

Some are saying the movement kept increasing for them this week but my cams have gone cold the past couple days.  We’ll see how she goes!

Yea nope o seen 1 live deer all week during shooting hours, no headgear!

[Wanderer]

22 minutes ago, smurfy said:

Yea nope o seen 1 live deer all week during shooting hours, no headgear!

Dang, that kinda sucks. 
 

My deer sightings went way down this weekend.  2 Saturday and 2 today but those might’ve been the same 2.

[Kettle]

12 hours ago, smurfy said:

Yea nope o seen 1 live deer all week during shooting hours, no headgear!

I have not heard of a buck harvested this year in the bigfork or Effie area

[gimruis]

I posted a report in the local Moose thread.  I saw 52 deer last week, by far the most I've ever seen in a season.  It was my 30th season.  I did not fill my buck tag because nearly every buck I saw was a dink.  I did fill a bonus antlerless tag with a plump corn fed doe, but I'll save everyone the waste of time looking at a doe since we've all seen one of those.  The wildlife in general has gone off the charts, as I also saw about 60 wild turkeys and stopped counting pheasants at 200 by day 4.

[leech~~]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

I posted a report in the local Moose thread.  I saw 52 deer last week, by far the most I've ever seen in a season.  It was my 30th season.  I did not fill my buck tag because nearly every buck I saw was a dink.  I did fill a bonus antlerless tag with a plump corn fed doe, but I'll save everyone the waste of time looking at a doe since we've all seen one of those.  The wildlife in general has gone off the charts, as I also saw about 60 wild turkeys and stopped counting pheasants at 200 by day 4.

Then your wife yelled, get up it's time for work!!  And that dream was over! 

[smurfy]

Kettle, I ran into a local in the woods last week I've known for 30 years.  He said t here's no shortage of wolves.

 

He told me wolves took down a deer like 20 yards in front of the main door of the bigfork high school.

 

You heat anything about it?? Guess the school is trying to pass it off on German Shepards.

[Kettle]

Haven't heard that but have heard from several people they've seen wolves out hunting. Obviously I cannot harvest those but hopefully I'll get some coyotes and bobcats this upcoming trapping season 

[smurfy]

Go gettem.