Hunters took to fields and forests for Minnesota’s annual firearms deer season. Here are some highlights from readers of the Minnesota Star Tribune. We’d love to share your snapshots, too, on Star Tribune online platforms and, possibly, in print.
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Firearm season began Saturday, Nov. 9.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
November 11, 2024 at 12:39AM
A buck stood near the Minnesota River, across the channel from Picnic Island. Photo taken in Fort Snelling State Park on Wednesday, Nov. 6, before hunting season began. (Provided/Kathy Kerr)
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Eden Prairie High School football coach Mike Grant shot this 9-point buck seven minutes into his opening morning hunt near his northern Minnesota cabin. His success so early in the hunt ran counter to family tradition. Mike's dad, Bud, the longtime Vikings coach who died in March last year at age 95, said he never shot a buck in the first hour of hunting in his 82 years of pursuing whitetails. (Courtesy of Mike Grant/Courtesy of Mike Grant)
Ryan Larson, of Detroit Lakes, got this buck Sunday Nov. 10 around 11:20 am in the Detroit Lakes area. He wrote: "this nice Buck came strutting into my stand. While trying to look him over as he had his head down coming thru thick brush he briefly turned sideways which presented a nice opportunity from me which I took." (Courtesy of Ryan Larson)
"Here is my only shot taken on Saturday morning, opening day of deer hunting" wrote George AP Johnson. The sun rose over the tree line just north of Pine City. (provided by George AP Johnson/Courtesy of George AP Johnson)
"View from my deer stand" in Manannah, Minn. (Courtesy of Dan Weiss/Courtesy of Dan Weiss)
Nichole Heinen, of Breezy Point, with an opening weekend buck from the Brainerd-Nisswa area. (Provided by Nichole Heinen/Courtesy of Nichole Heinen)
Jenny Bartella, of Breezy Point, was successful on her opening weekend deer stand hunting in the Brainerd-Nisswa area. (Provided by Jenny Bartella/Provided by Jenny Bartella)
Sam Koep, of Plymouth, with an opening weekend 8 pointer from the Brainerd-Nisswa area (provided/Courtesy of Sam Koep)
Theresa Doran, of the Twin Cities, and Wendy Doran, of Nisswa, with two opening weekend bucks taken in the Brainerd-Nisswa area. (provided/Courtesy of Theresa and Wendy Doran)
Emma Polzin, of Cambridge, hunted Sunday morning west of Cambridge on her uncle‘s property. Emma was hunting with her cousin. (Courtesy of Nancy L Giacchetti)
Mike Funk, of Minnetonka, hunted near Perham on private property and shot this 8 pt buck. "It was following a doe and luckily stopped in a narrow shooting lane," he wrote. (provided/Provided by Mike Funk)
On his first-ever deer hunt, Nate Chlebeck, 16, of Cottage Grove, shot this buck on Opening Day near Moose Lake (Provided/Courtesy of Kevin Chlebeck)
Drew Swartz, of the Twin Cities, shot this buck opening weekend on public land in southeast Minnesota. (provided/Courtesy of Drew Swartz)
Harrison Smith, of Willmar, shot this buck with his bow just before the rifle season opened in Minnesota. He felled the whitetail in the Minnesota River bottoms near Renville. It was his first archery killed buck. (Provided/Courtesy of Harrison Smith)
Allie Timmons of Hugo took a nine-point buck Sunday morning south of Glenwood, Minn. Below, her father, Dave Thelen of Avon, got an 11-pointer, too, Sunday in the same area. Both hunted from blinds from ground blinds on 3-foot platforms. (Provided/Courtesy of Allie Timmons)
(Provided/Courtesy of Allie Timmons)
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