If you could make one change......

[archerystud]

I'd like to see APRs but if we can't have that then get rid of party hunting. If you don't have a valid tag then you can't be in the field. Some of us pass up multiple deer only to have one person shoot 3 of them that we pass up. Its a bit frustrating.

[SmellEsox]

Increase population goals by 50% at least in central MN.

Get rid of party hunting.

OK, so that's two things I'd change.

[TruthWalleyes]

2 day archery season.

[Jameson]

2 day archery season.

That is a bit harsh. How about giving us bowhunters the 9/16 days of firearms season and the 2 days after? Otherwise, I won't even bother bow hunting.

[BLACKJACK]

My one change:

Go back to the bucks only season and the doe season in the southeast.

20 some years ago I lived and hunted in SE MN when the season was split like that and had the neighbor kid tell me "Real deer hunters only hunt the buck season".

Seems to me that where the whole horn porn craze in SE MN started, the only good deer to kill had to have antlers.

[phorn]

I guess I should have clarified myself better. Buck season with the apr's. I hunt the second season but nobody hunts this season anymore. I have 28 acres to hunt 3B season with 4 others. We are in the middle of 1000's of acres. Not a soul hunts the woods around us. The 1st season down there is crazy,deer getting pushed around. 2nd season dead. Just my one change.

[TruthWalleyes]

You know why that is Phorn?

Reason why i hunt 1st season is simple...I get an extra 2 days of hunting

Let me explain...

Hunt season A.

Buy muzzleloader license, also get to hunt 2nd weekend of season B

Also get 1st crack at deer in season A.

[phorn]

The guy that owns the land I hunt hunts the first season. Not complaining I'm very grateful to have a place to bow hunt and to take my son the second season. It would just be nice if more people hunted the 2nd season to stir things up.

[slimngrizzly]

Id love to have a spot, prime rut, where no one is "stirring things up"!!

[lungdeflator]

Push the rifle season back 1-2 weeks and shorten it to 2 weekends where it is currently 3.

[walleyeguy7]

I would like to see the gun season held off for a week or two, I think that we would start to see a positive improvement on deer size and herds in areas that are lottery or hunters choice that are surrounded by intensive harvest areas.

[Bear55]

Id love to have a spot, prime rut, where no one is "stirring things up"!!

Wish they would have Ripley rut hunt that was open for a week during rifle season, let in 250 guys on a once in a life time dream hunt.

[bigbucks]

I don't think I'd change anything. It's not perfect, but I can hunt as much as I want & I choose if my season is going to be over or not.

I maybe would redraw the areas, as it seems like some of the lines are in the wrong places, but then it gets to the whole point of what's practical. Lot easier to say the zone line follows Hwy 71 here, then Hwy 29 for a while, which would be more accurate as far as the habitat goes. The part of area 213 that's N of I 94 has a LOT more cover & I'd say a lot more deer, than the S part which is mostly open.

[bigshooter23]

I would like the APR. Are group I hunt with says 4 pts on one side its fair game. so many times see a button buck or spike cross the road and bang. gets a little frustrating when the neighbors have 7 deer hanging and none of which are over a 100lbs