Deer Regulation ?

[Jameson]

That would be a long beard to get caught in the auger. You should probably be ok unless you already got a four foot beard going. Then grab the extension and a stepstool to keep the beard clear of the auger. I'm thinking the guys from ZZ Top just had someone else drill the holes for them.

[Bear55]

You really have to have a good shave/trimming plan in place this time of year, its all part of a sound hunting strategy. Trim too much and you'll be out a 2nd deer, trim to little and the wife won't come near you.

Yep, just had to trim my beard because of the wife . However I started early this year and was almost full blow Grizzly Adams in late Sept, should be rocking the new beard regs by Nov 9th.

[SmellEsox]

Really?! If I trim too little my wife won't come near me?!

[hugonian1]

Funny how some of these threads get off topic.

I was hoping to find out what base Who is on and it morphs into a discussion on beards.

Go figure.

[pikerliker]

I trim my beard with this nice box fan I got off this forum a couple years ago...

[nofishfisherman]

I trim my beard with this nice box fan I got off this forum a couple years ago...

Well played.

[huntnfish]

Really?! If I trim too little my wife won't come near me?!

That's one of the benefits of the beard. Its hunting season. There's no need for any hanky panky this time of year.

[vister]

Not too steer the current topic off track, but the finally tally is this?? I hunt in zone 240, a managed zone. You are saying I can purchase (2) antlerless bonus tags, shoot two does to fill my bonus tags in that zone, THEN, use my regular tag, and throw it on a buck in a hunters choice zone, for a total of 3 deer, when although the bag limit in my zone is 2 deer, I thought I was only allowed to use one bonus tag in a managed zone???

[mntatonka]

Not too steer the current topic off track, but the finally tally is this?? I hunt in zone 240, a managed zone. You are saying I can purchase (2) antlerless bonus tags, shoot two does to fill my bonus tags in that zone, THEN, use my regular tag, and throw it on a buck in a hunters choice zone, for a total of 3 deer, when although the bag limit in my zone is 2 deer, I thought I was only allowed to use one bonus tag in a managed zone???

You can use any combination of 5 bonus tags and/or your license tags to get up to 5 deer per year in the state via the 3 license methods. No more than 1 can come from any Hunter's Choice/Lottery area, and no more than 2 can come from any one Managed Zone.

[Jameson]

You can use any combination of 5 bonus tags and/or your license tags to get up to 5 deer per year in the state via the 3 license methods. No more than 1 can come from any Hunter's Choice/Lottery area, and no more than 2 can come from any one Managed Zone.

This states it pretty well. The only change to maybe make is that no more than 2 can come from the Managed zones. Can't kill a total of three deer from a total of two managed zones.

Vister, pre-2010? you were correct, only 1 bonus tag in the managed zones, now we can use 2.

[hockeybc69]

The rule just seems odd.

I live in a managed area. Our hunting land is in a managed area.

Seems kinda silly that I can fill 2 antlerless tags in managed areas, then go to a hunters choice area and fill another one....

A managed area is just that because the DNR feels there is sufficient deer to have that type of harvest level. A hunters choice area is just that, because it likely cant put out as many deer as a managed area. Yet I can go fill my two tags in managed, then go to another area that doesnt have the densities of a managed area and fill yet another.

Logic to me says you fill tags only up to the level the area you are hunting can handle.

Example, you hunt a lottery or hunters choice area, you get that one deer. If you want another deer, go to a managed or intensive area.

If you hunt a managed area, you tag 2 deer. If you want more deer, you now go to an intensive area.

Basically, the way it used to be.

How ridiculous to allow people to go take additional deer in permit areas that only allow one deer per person. Seems counterproductive to allow people to fill tags in 1 deer areas if they have already tagged 2 in a managed area, or even 4 in an intensive area.....

Dumb.....

[Jameson]

Your way would put more pressure on one deer areas - lotto/hc. Folks would look to fill their first tag in the one deer areas and then work their way up to two deer areas, and then finish their season in five deer areas. We want less pressure on one deer areas.

[tmvikings]

Just to let anyone that really wants to know here is the response to the question at hand from the DNR......

Yes, you can legally do what you have described below.

Please let us know if you have any further questions.

MNDNR Information Center

500 Lafayette Rd

St. Paul, MN 55155-4040

651-296-6157

1-888-646-6367

[hockeybc69]

I disagree Jameson.

Why would I purposely go travel to 1 deer areas over hunting in my managed areas?

[Jameson]

Why would you purposely travel to a 1 deer area over hunting in a local managed area? I dunno, because it is where you want to hunt. If your local area is home here in the cities and you arrowed a deer early, you would not be able to hunt up north for firearms season if up north was a 1 deer area. Would you then instead just wait to hunt here in the cities until after firearm's season? Or maybe only trophy hunt early season in the managed area when it could use a few deer harvested from it? Or would you shoot a doe early knowing that you would not be hunting up north with the buddies? After you wait until firearms season to hunt up north and get nothing will you still be able to get one in the cities where the deer need to be thinned? So, in this scenario your pressure on the 1-deer area remains the same, that is unless you would have been less likely to be a brown it's down hunter in the 1-deer area with a doe already shot in the managed area.

Not all hunters are like you either. Some travel to do all their hunting making plans ahead of season, like me. We are not going to plan a trip to a managed area opening weekend knowing if we get a deer we would have to cancel a later trip to a 1-deer area. We will plan it the other way around. Go to a HC area on the last weekend before firearms and arrow any deer, and then move on to managed for firearms season. Here the pressure increases, because I am making sure to get my hunting in in the 1-deer area. Previous years I might have missed it due to many reasons, but now I will always plan it for the first hunt.

Another way to look at it. I have four areas I like to hunt. This year, one is Intensive, three are 1-deer areas. Change the rule, and I am not hunting the Intensive area until muzzy season, and might only shoot one deer there instead of one in each season there. Other hunters would do the same. We need to encourage hunting in the multi-deer areas, not penalize people for it.

[g_anoka]

After reading the posts here, and reading the regulations, I have to admit I am confused. My understanding is that if you were to take 2 deer in a managed deer area, you could not take another deer in either a lottery or a hunters choice area.Because while hunting in a managed area you would need to register one deer with your primary or original license, and the second deer with a bonus license. So as I see it, you have no tag to legally take another deer in a lottery or hunters choice area. Am I missing something here?

[Jameson]

...pre-2010? you were correct, only 1 bonus tag in the managed zones, now we can use 2.

[schmoe147]

2 deer in management using any combination of license. Therefore you can use 2 bonus tags in a management area

[littlebear]

So if I shoot a buck with my right handed gun and I change to a left handed gun can I shoot another buck in a different zone

Only if you use left handed ammunition in said left handed gun......

[jay83196]

I got a headache reading this so I stopped half way through....If you hunt in a managed area and get a doe or buck or two total(it does not matter what with or what tag you use) you cannot tag anything else in hunters choice or lottery areas as you already got one and that's the limit for hunters choice or lottery areas. Call dnr ask them they will tell you. I used to hunt intensive harvest (5 deer) and management area (2) and if I got 2 in intensive area first I couldn't tag anything in the managed area. If shot two in managed then I can still tag 3 in intensive as the limit is 5. Can't go in reverse!

Unless rules changed you cant get 2 in managed and another in hunters choice or lottery equaling 3. Cant add different areas up. For example 5 intensive 2 managed 1 hunters choice totaling 8 deer, cant do that. If hunted all those areas most you can get is 5.

[Jameson]

With or without a 2" beard measured at the chin?

[hockeybc69]

Quote:

If you hunt in a managed area and get a doe or buck or two total(it does not matter what with or what tag you use) you cannot tag anything else in hunters choice or lottery areas as you already got one and that's the limit for hunters choice or lottery areas.

The plot thickens....

One thing is 100% certain by me... And I learned this a long time ago....

I dont rely on a forum to get answers on regulations... And this thread is a perfect example......

[Jameson]

Then please do tell us what you do rely on to get answers on regulations? Phone calls?

[crawler harness]

If people cant figure it out best thing to do is call the warden in your area. He will give you the best answer, because God knows you call the st. paul office you can get 2 different answers from 2 people.

[hockeybc69]

Better yet, email your local conservation officer and save the email....

I would love to see the look on a CO's face when you plead with him/her that Jameson on FM told me I could do this. LOLLLLLL