I come to you from my tree stand near Cotton. Curious how you Northland hunters do this opening weekend 2010.
I harvested a small buck and have seen a few doe. But otherwise pretty quiet, hence the reason I am posting while I try to pass the time. I know it’s ideal to have snow opening weekend but this weather makes it easy to sit up in this tree longer.
Be safe and good luck!
21 thoughts on “Minnesota Deer Hunting Opener 2010”
Cotton*
Having lived in that town for 21 years, I never hunted. Hope you snag a few before the locals do.
Not a hunter. No objections to hunting though. As far as I’m concerned, the less deer in this state, the better.
My only objection with hunting is calling it a sport. Not really a sport if the other team doesn’t know it’s playing.
With that being said, good luck.
Did anyone see today’s Eh? column from the DNT? It said if you’re not into deer hunting, you can go hiking in the woods and pull up some invasive species.
Gee, should I also wear brown and my deer antlers??
Read the Eh? Column again. “Wisconsin wildlife officials” are suggesting a hike in the woods to remove invasive species. Wisconsin’s firearm deer season doesn’t start for another couple weeks.
You harvest plants, you kill animals.
You kill plants. You kill animals. You eat both, then poop, which fertilizes the soil, which grows more plants and animals.
How can one tell what IS an invasive specie when all of the plants are leafless during hunting season? (That is assuming you know an invasive specie when it HAS leaves:-)
buck thorn isn’t that hard to id with or without leaves if you know it. Tansy is also real easy, but I think it’s probably past the time of year where pulling tansy will have any effect.
Thank eco eco. I was thinking the same thing myself…
Nice pic and post, good luck, Cory. I harvested one yesterday and will take the dog and look for birds. I have a cabin near Schroeder and heard more shooting today. Guys filling tags, I suppose. Black powder season next!
First, good luck to the hunters out there.
But I am something of a word geek and share the curiosity about the use of “harvest” here. Based on Webster’s, anyway, it seems like a stretch. So why do so many people make that stretch?
I see two possibilities, though I’m sure there are more. First, there’s an aversion to killing, or we want to protect folks from the image of killing. Second, the act of deer hunting is ultimately a harvest. Emphasizing only the hunt or the kill would detract from the sense that it’s done for the purpose of gathering food.
And then there’s “fishing…”
Harvest:
to catch, take, or remove for use: Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.
I am going to start calling it gardening. Free range, locally grown, organic meat gardening.
What about harvesting human organs?
If you don’t harvest plants (corn, beans, wheat), you also kill animals (humans).
Based on the Sam Cook article today, it sounds like a lot of hunters do the killing and then pay someone else to do the harvesting.
Harvesting human organs is a good one. That gives the impression that the human was raised to meet the end objective of gaining more organs.
I would argue that it’s a “harvest” because the deer population is heavily managed by our state natural resources department just as a farmer might rotate crops in their field and weed it. In this case the “crop” that has been tended to just happens to have four legs and a tail, and rather than capturing it with a combine we capture it with a gun. The corn probably views the combine as a deer views a gun.
I was a vegetarian for several years, and I still prefer to mostly eat plants. But I also have come to see that eating the animals that eat the plants is just part of the overall cycle of things. It seems like a good idea to be part of the cycle of plant-animal life that flows through my place in the world, especially given that I’ll be feeding the process myself in a couple decades (I hope), when my energy moves on.
In my capacity as a local food advocate/grower/researcher, it’s become pretty clear that if we ate only plants in this region, we’d be quite a bit hungrier, and we’d need to have a much smaller regional population.
The other team does know the game and the rules. That’s why it is so difficult. They practice 24/7 and are very good.
Not to mention they have home field advantage.
Cows eat plants and are therefore vegetarians. I eat cows.
I am a vegetarian by proxy.