Deer hunt was slow

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 2:18pm

By Bill Bartusek

With Thanksgiving behind us, December looms ahead. The gun deer season is over and the results are coming in. The harvest will be down quite a bit from last year. Three factors contributed to the lower deer kill: lots of corn in the fields, unseasonably warm weather and fewer anterless permits all had a negative impact on the hunt.

Steve Fisher and I headed for southeastern Minnesota for our deer hunt on November 20. It was warm, with daytime temperatures close to 60 degrees. We headed for our stands on a farm near Rushford in a thick, soupy fog.

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