Paul Bunyan forest

[polaris boy]

Was wondering who all plans to rifle hunt this year there. What's your predictions and do you use a Atv. Thanks

[huskie0302]

We have gone for the last 10 years. What part do you hunt?

[polaris boy]

Hunt the northern part Tords bemidji. Just wondering if it would be worth bringing my Atv.

[NEUT6899]

We also hunt Paul Bunyan.. Went up this past weekend to check out our stands and did a little repair... Very little sign compared to other years. ATV use is not permitted in the area we hunt...

[leechlake]

I'd bring a game cart over an ATV. Nice area with some elevation changes and logged area. Probably good to spend a weekend finding a spot that isn't already "taken." Don't want to have the sun come up and see three orange guys sitting within 100 yards of you.

[NEUT6899]

Polaris boy

Leechlake is spot on. Scouting an area is a great idea. About 5 years ago I crawled in my stand and as soon as sun up I was looking at another hunter about 150 yards behind me... For some reason he keeps coming back and sits in the same spot... I have never heard him shoot on opening weekend but I have been lucky enough to shoot a deer 4 out of the 5 years he has been sitting there..

[nofishfisherman]

I'm hunting just west of Paul Bunyan. Literally across the road on some DNR and county land.

We haven't seen or heard much in the last few years but the shooting we did hear was mostly coming from the east which would have been Paul Bunyan land.

[Jmnhunter]

we hunt there too; alot of guys, i'm glad the ATV's are being limited out there, seems like alot of them are obeying the rules;

NEUT, the area we are in we run into a "st cloud" bunch every once in awhile, 4-5 guys with 1 or 2 younger kids, not you is it?

another st cloud bunch, theres got to be a dozen or so guys with a couple of campers

[NEUT6899]

Jmnhunter,

Nope that's not us. Just 2 of us that camp but there are 6 others from St Cloud that hunt same area as us.. They all have cabins up in the area but they still hunt there. We pull the fish house up with us and camp off of CR-91 near Trout Lake RD... The guy I go up with has been hunting the same area since the early 80's when he was a kid.. What area you in?

[huskie0302]

Last year was the first year I saw a hunter in the stand, he was walking around. We hunt off steam boat road. Hows the deer hunting by you guys?

[Gofishleech]

we hunt there too; alot of guys, i'm glad the ATV's are being limited out there, seems like alot of them are obeying the rules;

NEUT, the area we are in we run into a "st cloud" bunch every once in awhile, 4-5 guys with 1 or 2 younger kids, not you is it?

another st cloud bunch, theres got to be a dozen or so guys with a couple of campers

You must be talking about the group that camps just east of the refuge line on the east side. I have been hunting off and on in that area for 30+ years. Some of those guys spend allot of time in there trucks circling the refuge and even thru it. They have been camping and hunting that area for many years. They used to camp at bass lake but moved just down the road. They hit it hard at muzzy time to.

[Jmnhunter]

hey gofish, yup thats them!we hear their generators roar all night, we are about a mile north of them

[NEUT6899]

Generators running all night!!! Drives me crazy....

[NEUT6899]

Wondering if any of you that hunt Paul Bunyan have had any wolf activity around the area you hunt...

[Jmnhunter]

just a few tracks in the mud, but i haven't seen or heard one in 6-7 years

[NEUT6899]

Jmnhunter,

Tried to send you PM but you are over message limit... Let me know when you clear some out..

[your_bobbers_down]

How did it go?

[NEUT6899]

Not good for us... Nice 6 point and a doe for the 6 of us. Windy and snow flurries all day. Had a 6 pointer about 45 yards from me at 7am on Sat but just didn't have a clean shot. Walking out to my stand on Sunday morning I ran across fresh wolf tracks in the snow.. Probably about 100 yards from my stand. Not what I wanted to see. Will be heading up again Friday to see if our luck has changed.

[huskie0302]

2 smaller bucks for 8 people. I saw two yearlings. I too saw wolf tracks, several of us saw different sets. The crazy thing for the weekend was almost hitting a nice 8pter while driving the wheeler back to camp.

[Jmnhunter]

was really slow for us, saw a doe and fawn between 4 of us from sat to monday; not much shooting around us either, no fresh buck sign either, loved the snow though!