Any Truth to the Rumor ????

[danny berg]

I was hearing a rumor this past weekend that if you hunt in Zone 4 you can now take does outside of your area, has anybody else heard that? Before, if we hunted outside of our area you could only take bucks

I need to stop and get the new regs, I heard they are out now....

Thanks in advance

[Rainman]

The way I understand it is that you can only shoot a doe in your designated area and a buck in the designated zone! The same as usual!

[eyesontonka]

danny

i think your talking about the management tags..

[danny berg]

I haven't seen the regs yet, but last weekend up in Glenwood that was all everybody I hunt with was talking about. I need to go to Gander this weekend hopefully they will have the regs by then.

[Mark Christianson]

Here is the answer:

NEW "BONUS" PERMITS

Antlerless deer permit system changes will help streamline licensing for Minnesota hunters. Under the new system, management and intensive harvest permits, which allowed the harvest of additional antlerless deer in certain permit areas, have been replaced by "bonus" permits that give hunters more flexibility in where they hunt. With a bonus permit, which costs half the price of a regular deer license, hunters may harvest extra antlerless deer in either managed or intensive-harvest permit areas.

"These changes should make it easier for hunters to legally harvest multiple deer in many areas of the state," Merriam said. "In turn, hunters will help us keep the state's deer herd at a level in balance with habitat and land use."

Hunters who purchase a bonus permit are no longer required to use it in one declared permit area. Bonus permits can be used in any permit area in their zone where extra antlerless permits are offered.

[bigbucks]

That's the way I read it. It's been available on the DNR HSOforum for quite a while. I know I read that probably a month ago on there. If you peek at that periodically for season dates, along with the Outdoor News site, you can keep pretty much "up to the minute" with changes.

[danny berg]

Thanks Biglakeba$$ and Bigbucks That does clarify it for me. I did look at the DNR HSOforum, but didn't dig real deep.