St. Croix Park Archery Hunt

[Ohboytimmy]

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St. Croix State Park in Hinckley will pilot an archery hunt for part of the 2014 fall deer season. The archery hunt will be Sept. 29 through Nov. 7, with the exception of Saturday, Nov. 1, and Sunday, Nov. 2, when the park will close for a youth firearms hunt. One hundred archery tags will be available; the deadline to apply for them is Aug. 15

Just got my notice that I was drawn for the St. Croix Park archery hunt! Never been to the park but I will be spending a day or two next in sept to do some scouting. I suppose heavy scouting can be useless if someone gets there stands out before I do. Has anyone hunted previous riffle seasons? What am I to expect? Hopefully I can bag a bruiser and cancel my Ripely hunt.

Not sure if they meant to give out only 100 tags. The email I recieved said

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had 308 parties successfully apply with 651 applicants total

Also, its a two deer limit. Either way, I'm still excited.

Cheers, Timmy

[Jameson]

I am IN, too. Don't know squat about the park either. As far as the 308 parties/651 applicants all that means is the average party had a little over 2 people applying in it. 100 archery hunters in the hunt, so about 50 groups (parties) were successfully drawn.

[Sir_Sumo]

Did you guys just get emails or the actual packets already? Trying to get in but it said drawing is the 18th and notification would be following week which is this week. Didn't get an email so probably not in I guess. Got into ripley though. Good luck .

[MNHunter65]

My brother and myself applied as a group. No luck on our end. Good luck to those that got drawn.

[Jameson]

Did you guys just get emails or the actual packets already? Trying to get in but it said drawing is the 18th and notification would be following week which is this week. Didn't get an email so probably not in I guess. Got into ripley though. Good luck .

Already got both an email first, followed by stuff in the mail.

[Jameson]

reports?

7 sits for me and not a deer sighted while on stand. Very few deer seen while driving in or out near the roads. Plenty of grouse and some wolf poo on the roads.

[Ohboytimmy]

Had a few sits last week. Had a big ole doe sneak up on me early morning. Caught me at draw. For the lack of pressure those deers are getting I would expect a lot more activity. Acorns are plentiful yet hasn't seem to draw much. Give it till the last week of this month and we will seem some roaming bucks. I would like to go this weekend but I'm taking my nephew out for his youth hunt orientation at Itasca state park.

[Jameson]

Now up to 11 sits, in 7 different spots, with no deer sighted. Probably only get in a couple more sits the first week of November.