Tomorrow morning the orange army takes to the woods. I can't believe how fast the last year went by. Good luck to everyone Tomorrow.

I hope you can hit one this year, Pat. Good luck!

Maybe let Jen fill your tag Pat. We all know she is the better hunter anyway. My 2 shooters just got to camp about an hour ago and I have been cooking most of the day. The buck activity here has really increased in the last 24 hours and the first week should be good. It appears I need to break in a new rifle this year. My Neice laid claim to my old 300 H&H so I am going to test drive a stainless Remington 700 CDL in 7mm-08 tomorrow.

160 you been cooking all day? Don't give them food poisoning before they have a chance to get in the woods. I'm sitting this one out so send me a stick of summer sausage. Concrete grinder chewed my leg up a bit.

What? Dang, I hadn't heard that. Let me know if you need a hand with anything. I am a man of leisure now. Now that you posted this on a public forum I am sure the deer weenies will start arriving in your mailbox any day.

Dang Wheelers, that sucks! Hope you mend quickly!
Traffic heading north has been nuts the past few hours. Seems every other vehicle is pulling a camper or trailer full of 4 wheelers and/or UTV's. Our local gas station has been doing a brisk business in gas, groceries and hunting licenses. Not sure if I even want to go out in the woods tomorrow or not. Be safe everyone and good luck to those who do go out.

yes be safe everyone and good luck!anticipation is running high for me,always does

Thankfully, unlike trapping, my daughter, son in law and grandsons can come home and hunt with me.

This must be about the peak of the rut. What a great time to be gun hunting!

The activity has greatly increased in the last 24 hours. I am going 3/4 mile back into the swamp near my back property line and I REALLY hope I don't pull the trigger on one back there. If I do I will likely camp out and eat on it until it is gone.

Zero deer sign in our hunting area. I'm sure glad that I don't care if I shoot one or not!

Yes good luck to everyone. I have to hang the bow up for a week. I spend the time sitting with my daughter during the season while she carries the rifle.

They were all shot over the 4th of Jurly weekend. Grandpa always said we could shoot them in any month that had an "R" including Jurly and Aurgust.

That's interesting, my forefathers told me the exact same thing!

Day before deer season and I already had the first coyote shot up in a trap today. Hit it three times, not sure how many times he missed. Fun times!

Which is nice….

Osky

Good luck everyone!

I hope you all get a Shot at a Nice deer tomorrow
We have to hunt till 930...leave for Wisconsin for a funeral...be back in Minn for the evening sit.

Stay safe all

Good luck guys
I'll be hit it hard this weekend with archery equipment. Buck movement has been slower than expected here for this time of year but last couple days been seeing an increase and new bucks are starting to show up. Daylight movement still a little weak. Cold and rainy all day today. Broke for a couple hrs before dark so I got a little hunting in. Looks like rain most of the night clearing in the morning so maybe that will get them on their feet. Stay safe and make some memories. I want to see some pics tomorrow.

It is a balmy 19 degree this morning.