North Metro Deer Hunting

[bogwalker]

We have the opportunity to bow hunt in the Forest Lake/ White Bear Lake area. Any chance of taking a nice buck in this area?

[Archerysniper]

Great chance to harvest a big boy in this area.

[CrowRiverRat83]

I agree. Lots of big bucks roaming in the metro.

[goblueM]

i was within 40 yards (broadside, too) of a monster 8 pointer near the MSP airport today. just a beautiful symmetrical and vertical rack

i've seen some big ones on the roadside by WBL and Bald Eagle as well

[hookset]

Hell yea, they eather get hit by a car or die of old age. get out there and hunt!!!

[Cheetah]

Link to WCCO news HSOforum, hopefully allowed. This deer was shot in that area back in 2006.

http://wcco.com/pets/Deb.Luzinski.deer.2.362736.html

[Archerysniper]

Deb shot that buck out of a mbrb hunt in otter lake park her and her husband cordinate tht hunt.

[hugonian1]

I have trailcam video of a beauty on my property in Hugo from last week. If someone smarter than me wants to post it I will email it to you.

[onthefly]

Very good chance! I grew up in Lino Lakes, so am pretty familiar with the deer there. I've seen multiple MONSTER bucks in my parent's back yard. We have pictures of a 16 pointer that should've been on the cover of a magazine, maybe 4-6 years old, and a 2.5 year old mainframe 8 with a drop tine to make it 9...probably goes 145". We came back from a disappointing rifle opener one year to see a group of 6 bucks walk by our living room window, the biggest being a giant 12 pointer.

I'd jump at this opp'ty. Good luck.

[panfried]

So..........Are you just asking this question to rub it in or are you really not aware of how good the metro can be? I hunt the S.E. metro and all i can say is WOW!!! I have hunted many other places and the sheer numbers of deer in the metro surpass most other places i have hunted. Have at it. Don't think these city deer are stupid either. They are every bit as smart as there country cousins. In fact, sometimes i think they are even more sensitive to intrusions. Good Luck. Let us know hopw you do.

[bogwalker]

I know hunters from up in our area who hunt the metro area because there are more deer there and limits are higher. I have never seriously considered hunting the metro area before.

[Gilgamesh]

I hunt SE metro and the deer are too smart. It seems they only move at night because there is so much city light. I have put cameras up and there are deer all over at nighttime. Kind of annoying.

[USPENAMC]

i get the annoying part. I got chosen 60 out of 500 to hunt near rosemount the Vermillion Higlands and everyone says there is a ton of deer there but out of all the people hunted i have talked to very few have seen deer during the day. I know there are alot because from one day to the next there are many more tracks and trails. I have had no luck so far out of 3 weeks out. I just want some meat in the freezer ha ha.

[panfried]

Yes, they can be very tough. We pretty much leave them alone until the rut kicks in. Seems you get far more daytime activity then and they seem to be distracted by the whole rut thing and pay less attention to there surroundings. This goes for both the does and the bucks. Early season and again in the late season it is straight up hard ot hunt them, The does especially. It is like they know every single tree in the woods. They pick a guy off more times than not it seems. There are some dandy's to be had though and it beats competeing with the gun season IMO.

[hunter322]

I hunt around hugo also and we usually do pretty good. except last year was a little slow. i havent seen anything big in the last couple of years. allthough my dad shot a nice 10 on his property.