Tue Nov 07, 2023 12:39 pm
Agreed on all the yahoos who just hunt opener, while also being conscious of our group being at least half comprised of that kind of hunter. For them it's more about the opener as an event....reason to see old friends and hangout for a weekend away from the wives. It's more about the social aspects than the hunting aspects. I get it, but it's gotten to the point where I think we should have our group's opener be on second weekend. Hunt the public stuff first weekend if guys are hellbent on going and rest the 80 acres of private and then have our same opener shit show second weekend after the ground has been rested and we've pressured the deer on the nearby public to move to our private ground.
We did this with trout opener actually for a while....got sick of bad weather, crowds, and moved our trout opener back a week....better chance of decent weather and no one wading through your hole. Etc.
The weekend hunting in my area sucked. I didn't see shit, most guys didn't, we got two does...the only two deer seen. The traffic around my brother's land must have been at least ten times higher than normal starting on aboot Thursday. Deer aren't stupid....I think they realize they need to sit tight and not move that weekend. Everyone I talked to....and I talked to a bunch of people....went to the casino Saturday night and talked to at least a half dozen different groups.....no one saw or shot shit. I didn't see any deer in trucks or on trailers....I'm very confident it was a bad opener in general in my area.
What's weird is we heard ten times the shooting, which is very confusing. I think it's dudes who hunt once a year getting bored and wanting to shoot their gun....stumps and dirt clumps beware. All in all weird opener. I hunted yesterday and saw deer, had a decent buck at the bottom of the hill under my stand yesterday....heard him grunting before I saw him. I was able to make him out with the naked eye but it was fifteen minutes after legal and I couldn't make him out in the scope. Saw does moving too, and deer out and about on my drive in and out. Night and day difference, but not that surprising....when all of a sudden ten times the vehicles are creeping up every gravel road, shutting car doors, and a blaze orange army invades the woods....like the deer don't freaking know what's up. Monday? Everything goes back to normal....occasional vehicle driving 55mph, no doors slamming, no one walking into the woods....deer know the coast is clear and are able to [cautiously] roam free again.
My brother and buddy tried to push a part of a large very popular Sunday during mid-day......long story....will tell it later....ends with my sister and her kids (8, 6, and 3yo), their 72yo grandpa (our dad) having a dude shoot a warning shot...two dudes following my sister down a path at gunpoint as she walked to her car worried because her 8yo daughter decided to stay back, and when they confronted her they told her, "There's nine guys in our group and they all want to kick your ass."
Luckily I was twenty miles away in my stand when this happened.
Then they blocked the road so my brother and our buddy couldn't get out, a father and son got out of their respective pickups, ran up to my brother's pickup like they were going to attack them....but then pussed out once they got out and were like, "fuggit let's dance." Once the old guy saw my brother step out, was a full head taller than him, and not fat as fukc, he called the sheriff.....said my brother had rammed his pickup, and was hysterical about hunter harassment. Dude is fukcing nuts.
Sheriff and DNR showed up....instantly recognized the offending party was both nuts and fukcing retards.....the only thing that resulted from them calling thr cops is members of their group getting charged with terroristic threats. My sister is a sweetheart and runs a daycare....her being unarmed and fearing for the safety of her kids isn't going to bode well for these fukcs.
So.....all in all.......
....Fairly typical MN opener.
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