Funny stuff calling 911 for deer theft
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/crime/2014/11/10/unsuccessful-hunter-caught-stealing-deer-carcass/18803785/
Yeah that is it....Wow desperation. Must be a Stearns County thing (LOL)
What I have found in MN over the years is that party hunting allows hunters to keep hunting all year. Some just don't stop when the shoot a deer.
Good issue to be addressed in the new social deer mgmt process. We no longer manage the herd for the hunters or sustained yield. Eliminate tag sharing since we manage for a fraction of the deer we had 10 years ago.
Cross tagging has no place in deer zones with more hunters than adult deer. Cross tag away when herd reduction is the goal.Absolutely. One tag and that hunter is done when his tag is on the deer.
ZZSmith.....have you not spoken to me? ;)I've never spoken to anyone who does NOT leave their tags at camp.
Good issue to be addressed in the new social deer mgmt process. We no longer manage the herd for the hunters or sustained yield. Eliminate tag sharing since we manage for a fraction of the deer we had 10 years ago.
Hope it was Sandbur! ;)Report from Saturday night at the bar in zone 1, an intoxicated fellow stood up and asked the estimated 60 social folk for a show of hands on how many had killed a deer opening day.
One guy raised his hand.
Any numbers in yet from the opener?
A bright spot was the metro area where no hunters were shot in any turf related trespass disputes, except for the 2 youth who killed a 16 year old boy in a dispute over who would keep a radio collared suburban squirrel killed near a known baited bird feeder.
I strongly agree!Minnesota has very diverse habitat and weather. From east to west it can go from forest lands to range-like prairie.......and from south to north it goes from intensive agriculture to managed forest lands and huge lakes. Hundreds of miles separate very diverse climate situations too. Oftentimes agriculture will vary dramatically from one-county to the next. Sandbur's "south land" is dramatically different than where he grew-up a hundred miles to the north.
There is little doubt that the area manager at Little Falls is the worst game manager in the state of MN.....or at least the policies in that area are a disaster. Some of those guys need to be singled out and go looking for a new line of work....IMO. Other areas can be quite good....IF the area is not in the extreme cold north.....filled with wolves......or intensively managed for agriculture (or dense pine plantations). That is one reason why we have area managers. Some are definitely not doing the right thing for sportsmen.