We can’t have deer managers encouraging hunters to take more antlerless deer and then have a rule on the books that hinders ...

Minnesota is heading into its second archery deer hunting season Saturday, Sept. 14, under a temporary law that allows anyone to use crossbows, but it’s still unclear how the first season went in 2023 ...

Honestly, I haven’t in the past given much thought to party hunting. Apparently, however, it’s a bit of a sore spot with some ...

In May 2023, near the end of that year’s legislative session, a conference committee deal was struck to allow any licensed Minnesota archer to hunt deer with a crossbow. The proposal never was heard ...

This past season again showed an increased harvest for archery hunters, with archery harvest up 8% compared to 2024. Crossbow ...

One of the two archery hunters who participated in the recent first-ever accessible deer hunt on the East Grand Forks side of the Greenway succeeded in filling their tag, a hunt organizer says.

As the weather cools and leaves drop, Central Minnesotans tend to turn their attention to several things, but perhaps most prominently, football, hockey and hunting. The state has a de­ep history of ...

Hunters who take the field in northwest Minnesota for the state’s regular firearms deer season won’t lack for opportunities when the season opens Saturday, Nov. 9, according to the Department of ...

More than 180,000 deer were taken by Minnesota hunters during the 2025 hunting season, a 9% increase over last season.

It was late in the afternoon on Oct. 14, and Randy Baker was sharing an elevated blind with his good friend Jared Mills, who’d traveled there from Iowa. They looked out over the rolling hills of Baker ...

Crossbows appear to have increased buck harvest slightly in 2023 and were popular among younger and older hunters. In Wisconsin, the popularity of crossbows has grown fast in the past decade.