headgear wrote:Not sure when all of your rifle seasons open up but the MN rifle season opens the Saturday closest to Nov 6th. Southern 2/3rds of the state is 9 days, northern 1/3 is 16 days. It completely destroys our rut and a great majority of the young bucks. It just plain sucks.
I agree, I don't hunt MN, but I hunt Western WI, and would think there is no reason that they couldn't grow some big bucks in Eastern MN. That gun season during the rut, really has to be hammering the bucks.