Minnesota deer hunting: Firearms season starts Saturday
About 500,000 hunters will each try to kill one of Minnesota’s roughly 1
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million deer Saturday on the opening day of the state’s firearms deer season.
It’s the state’s most popular outdoors event aside from the spring fishing opener, and unlike other types of hunting, deer hunting is holding its own, if not growing, in Minnesota.
As of Monday, license sales were ahead of last year’s pace. In 2012, nearly 522,000 firearms tags were sold, the most since at least 2000.
For the past several years, roughly 98 percent of all tags have been purchased by Minnesotans. Much of the reason for that, wildlife officials say, is that deer hunting is as much about family traditions as shooting a deer.
Still, it is a hunt, and more than 100,000 deer are expected to be taken.
The state’s total deer take for the year largely will be determined by how hunters fare Saturday and Sunday. Seventy percent of the kill occurs during opening weekend, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
Last year, 186,000 deer were killed during the fall archery, muzzleloader and regular firearms seasons, and with population levels and license restrictions generally similar to last year, the agency forecasts a similar take this year.
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filthy retarded freaks…the USA is a backwards nation…. just full of sickos and psychos….hopefully there will be a lot of hunters – of all ages and gender – who get shot and killed throughout this vile event….