Mn Deer Hunting Regulations

[coffee]

I tagged a buck during the rifle season in an Intensive Harvest area. I have a Muzzleloader license and an Antlerless Permit for a Lottery area. Can I take a doe in the Lottery area with the Muzzleloader?

[96trigger]

If the permit is good for the ML season, you are good to go and shoot a doe in Lotto area.

However, I thought maybe, at one time, a ML doe permit was different than a firearm doe permit. But honestly, I could be wrong because I never applied for one.

[Gordie]

the only way to take a doe in a lottery zone with a muzzle loader is with a doe permit this year. no exceptions

[96trigger]

Elwood, are the doe permits the same for firearm and ML, or are they separate?

If you get a doe permit for a lottery zone, can you use it either season? Or is it season specific?

He's got a permit, I just don't know if it is season specific. I have the regs on my desktop at work, but not at home.

[ANYFISH2]

A hunter could only apply for a firearms doe permit or ML doe permit. One is not interchangable with the other this year.

[Red Miller]

Yep....you are right. This is out of the regs.

Lottery deer areas. ALL firearm and muzzleloader hunters must

apply for an either-sex permit if they want to harvest an antlerless deer in a lottery deer area. A hunter can apply using either a firearm or muzzle-loader license but not both. If you are drawn, the permit will be valid for that season and area only.

I am looking at my antlerless permit and it states "firearms season only" and for that particular block only. So they are different (ML and Firearms)

[96trigger]

That is what I thought, but was not 100% sure. It is also why I probably didn't apply for a doe permit. If the regs stay the same, I will apply for a doe permit in a lottery area for the ML season in the future. I've taken my two deer (one legal buck) in the managed areas, but would love to take the smoke pole to a lottery area I hunt. Ohe well, I guess its back to stick and string for me. My lotto area is surrounded by stateland. I am not optomistic about getting close enough to a doe on that land to be able to take it with the bow.