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[Strokerswild]

I’ve heard elk hunting is a blast. I need to make time to do it at some point. Birds are a lot of fun, pheasant is probably my favorite. Ducks are fun too but again, you’re kinda sitting around in a blind waiting for them. I need to be moving, especially in the cooler months when a lot of these things are in season here.

We hunted everything there was to hunt when I was growing up. Pheasant hunting was always my favorite also of all. No sitting around freezing your ass off.

Deer hunting in southern MN sort of sucks compared to the north, since you can't use a rifle and there are far too many idiots out there. Tricky also if you don't know a property owner. Back throughout the '90s my Dad and my brother and I hunted in Montana on ranchers' land, which I absolutely loved. Then Montana figured out that there was a lot of money to be made gouging out of state licenses, so we quit going. I think it's been 25 years since I've been deer hunting, I still have all the gear but nowhere to go.

Since I live in a rural wooded development of sorts that's well out of city limits, I've thought about just picking up a good crossbow (legal here now) and basically "hunt" in my backyard. I've found signs that deer have been bedding down in a couple of spots in my yard lately (probably eluding coyotes), and I think it would be a slam dunk. My only concern would be wounding one and have it crash through someone's front window elsewhere in the area.

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[WItoTX]

I’ve heard elk hunting is a blast. I need to make time to do it at some point. Birds are a lot of fun, pheasant is probably my favorite. Ducks are fun too but again, you’re kinda sitting around in a blind waiting for them. I need to be moving, especially in the cooler months when a lot of these things are in season here.

Pheasants are delicious, and it's incredibly enjoyable to watch a dog work a field. There is no downside to pheasant hunting I know of!

And I've forgotten what OP asked about LOL

 

[Bob Lob Law]

Lived in Montana, Great Falls specifically when I was 8 til I was 14. My dad was stationed at Malstrom(Air Force). We hunted and fished a LOT! Like we didn't buy chicken or beef the entire time there! My favorite is Hungarian Partridge or "huns". The only real down side to Pheasant hunting in MT was the rattle snakes. Snake chaps are a thing. LOL We mostly deer hunted over in the Missouri River Breaks area in eastern MT. Most years we were able to get 6 doe and 1 buck tag per person. Some areas were a deer a day though. Deer on the road was common. Oh, and Montana started charging big money for out of state hunters was 2 fold. One, to make money on the out of state hunters, and two was to slow the numbers of out of state hunters, especially for elk.

 

[WD Pro]

Hunting / shooting anything seems quite a strange concept for me over here … lol

Very topical, but for the birds hunters in this thread : it would have been easy pickings for you on my walk tonight - geese, and lots of them, repeatedly circling and flying overhead :

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[paulm1]

I upgraded to gt350 front calipers from the stock 4 piston, I wasn't looking for the gt350 brakes but got a great deal on them, so I got the adapter brackets from lmr for 15 inch rotors. Braking was better but the real stopping power upgrade was the 305 conti SP2 tires.

 

[-RAC-]

I had to test the braking limits in my gt350 a few times with deer, turkeys, racoons, skunks, and coyotes here in northern Indiana. Not a fun experience. I really hate this time of year driving into work. Last week just missed a raccoon.

I live near the lakes just outside a deer reduction zone. I live on a back side of a 5 acre private park and the the deer bed down there nightly. In the winter the herd comes in to bed down and eat everyone's landscaping. I was almost ran over by a herd last year when I took my dog out at night to let her do her business.

The good thing about the reduction zone is a 10 bag limit with only one with antlers after the first antlerless is harvested.

If they ever move the zone to my area I am going to use a .458 AR to thin those suckers out.

 

[Strokerswild]

Lived in Montana, Great Falls specifically when I was 8 til I was 14. My dad was stationed at Malstrom(Air Force). We hunted and fished a LOT! Like we didn't buy chicken or beef the entire time there! My favorite is Hungarian Partridge or "huns". The only real down side to Pheasant hunting in MT was the rattle snakes. Snake chaps are a thing. LOL We mostly deer hunted over in the Missouri River Breaks area in eastern MT. Most years we were able to get 6 doe and 1 buck tag per person. Some areas were a deer a day though. Deer on the road was common. Oh, and Montana started charging big money for out of state hunters was 2 fold. One, to make money on the out of state hunters, and two was to slow the numbers of out of state hunters, especially for elk.

The first year my Dad and I went out to MT, we filled four tags before noon the first day (Glendive area). We spent the rest of the long weekend hauling around the dressed carcasses looking for old cars (almost scored a Talledaga), good thing it was cool. Every year after we hauled home at least one per person. That you could go to a sporting goods store and purchase additional tags was an alien concept coming from MN where it's one and done, and had to be a buck at that time unless you were lucky enough to score a doe permit.

Thus, I can see the reasons for them tightening things up for out of staters. It wouldn't take long for the deer to get thinned out fast.

Thinking back, I really loved going there. Beautiful scenery.

 

[shogun32]

re things getting better? I don't know, deer are setting up house keeping in all the little wooded spots and parks in town.

2am I leave the office in an office park with a strip of woods (no more than 4 acrs) nearby. 15 deer all standing around in the asphalt parking lot. They're just standing there looking at me. I freeze, desperately wishing I had my bow or .30-30 repeater slung over my shoulder. 10 minutes, nobody moves. then slowly they start ambling off without a care in the world.

Then another night I round the corner at my housing development and there are 2 not 15ft away munching away on acorns. I stop. 3 minutes later they put their heads down and go back to munching. I walk by down the sidewalk. One of them takes a token flinch stride, and then watches me disappear down the road.

I could probably harvest one with a rambo knife.

 

[Bob Lob Law]

We have an in city bow hunting deer season here in Springfield Missouri. Deer all over the road as well.

 

[TrueBlue22]

First, glad you are okay, deer hits suck. I've been involved in many back when I lived in Wisconsin.

You can thank your states liberal wildlife management policies for that...Colorado is going to suffer the same fate. Just shy of $200 for me to buy a tag to come hunt in your state. Nevermind all the $$$ I'd spend on fuel, hotels, food, and entertainment, likely in small towns which are driven by that type of revenue.

Your same legislatures will import wolves to kill the deer, but will restrict the number of hunters that can come to your state. They will release the wolves in the north, not where the deer are, and certain folks will hail it as some huge "win". It's call ballot box biology, and it's 100% the opposite of how wildlife in America was supposed to be managed.

I will get off my soap box now. I am a hunter, and the amount of red tape, rules, regulations, and money I have to spend just to hunt, it rivals my track day budget LOL...

Yep, all of this sounds very familiar. Releasing wolves in the UP does absolutely nothing when 95% of the deer live in the Lower Peninsula. My local government can’t wrap its head around the concept of selling permits for a guided archery hunt (100,000 people in a 36sqmi township = no firearms hunting) and would rather pay “professionals” huge $$$$ to knock out a few dozen deer when we easily have 5,000 within our borders. I’m not a hunter myself, but I’m a big hunting advocate because it’s the only effective way to manage the herd size. Our state legislature has shown a complete lack of interest in getting our hunting situation back to a sustainable level. Meanwhile, chronic wasting disease and tuberculosis are running rampant within the deer population because it’s not in good health.

I already hit and killed one deer back in 2013 with my 2011 5.0 - I’d rather not repeat that experience.

 

[Biggsy]

Now I can use this thread to explain to my lady that I need to upgrade to AP brakes. Its dangerous out here for us drivers ya know

 

[Nickel]

Brake power will always trump horse power. I live on the curviest roads in America, and if you're not running a minimum of 200tw tires and race pads, you're a danger to yourself. Brake fade, especially on the downhill of Cherohala is serious. My braking distance is a quarter of others. I run Carbotechs on all my cars in addition to the Brembos on my Mach 1 HP. Even if you don't have Brembos, like my 86 for example, a good race pad and brake fluid is king.

 

[S550HPP]

Worst possible thing next to a head on at speed is hitting a deer or worse and Elk....it's almost certain death as they crash through the windshield crushing you in your seat, impialing you with their bones.

As cheesy as those stick on whistles are anything that can help is welcome.

Unused to regularly do 120-160 thought the mountains at night I suppose the Pilot tire noise travelled far because I never saw a single wildlife while at 50-80 I see them often.

 

[shogun32]

As cheesy as those stick on whistles are anything that can help is welcome

Your horn.

 

[Bob Lob Law]

Worst possible thing next to a head on at speed is hitting a deer or worse and Elk....it's almost certain death as they crash through the windshield crushing you in your seat, impialing you with their bones.

As cheesy as those stick on whistles are anything that can help is welcome.

Unused to regularly do 120-160 thought the mountains at night I suppose the Pilot tire noise travelled far because I never saw a single wildlife while at 50-80 I see them often.

Worse yet, is a moose!

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