Tom from Minnesota

[User00047]

I came across this site while I was just learning about hunting in the UK. I was wondering if deer hunting even occurred there or if it had been extinguished...

I've also been using Norma ammunition quite a bit recently and it seems that I would get useful feedback on it from folks in Europe who have been using it and testing it for some time.

In Minnesota I mainly hunt deer and small game. I use bow and arrow and a muzzleloading rifle for the most part. But we also use regular bolt action rifles in the places where they're legal.

I've gotten my kids into hunting and they've done well themselves and I also mentor new hunters here in Minnesota. In the USA we actually have declining hunter participation and that's something that we're trying to improve.

I won't be using the classifieds at all I'll just be sharing information and looking to learn from other members here.

In particular, I just bought a pile of Evostrike from Norma and I am curious as heck to know how it's worked for people.

Tom

Do you hunt the Boundary Waters?
I listened to an interesting podcast on Meateater (I think) that was about the hunting and travel there. Seems like a unique and challenging area for hunters!

 

[RM100]

Ha! To be clear I use a modern muzzleloader that shoots very accurately. It doesn't look like a gun from the 1800s...

Welcome to the set.

Clearly, a picture of your muzzle-loader, along with some kills is required….

 

[Bowland blades]

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[toggy]

Do you hunt the Boundary Waters?
I listened to an interesting podcast on Meateater (I think) that was about the hunting and travel there. Seems like a unique and challenging area for hunters!

Yes I think I heard about that podcast. The hunting is very difficult up there just because of the low numbers of animals.

The photograph that I put up with the fire in it was a few hundred yards outside the boundary waters. I do go to the boundary waters but I do not hunt when I'm there. I generally go to the boundary waters in the warmer summer months.

In the fall, I hunt around much of the edge and vicinity of the boundary waters. There used to be deer to be had but many serious winters in the last decade or so have really reduced the whitetail population. I haven't even tried hunting deer there in 5 years.

I also hunt grouse and snowshoe hare up there.

 

[RM100]

I hunt over much of Minnesota Minnesota and the ecosystems can vary widely. Up north I hunt a lot of flat land so photos don't do it justice. It's similar to Canada, Finland and Norway boggy areas. Much fewer deer.

In the south we have deciduous forests mixed with farms. Many deer down there.

I don't hunt in the southwestern part of the state where we have mostly open prairie.


My son with a nice buck in farmland:

Northern Boreal forest:

My best archery deer. Farmland:

All whitetails.


In the southeastern part of the state we catch brown trout, which were brought over from Scotland and Germany.

Northern forest:

Somehow, can’t see the pictures.

 

[toggy]

Somehow, can’t see the pictures.

I just checked in another browser and I completely messed up putting the photos in. I'll try and fix it.

 

[toggy]

(I fixed the photos)

I hunt over much of Minnesota Minnesota and the ecosystems can vary widely. Up north I hunt a lot of flat land so photos don't do it justice. It's similar to Canada, Finland and Norway boggy areas. Much fewer deer.

In the south we have deciduous forests mixed with farms. Many deer down there.

I don't hunt in the southwestern part of the state where we have mostly open prairie.


My son with a nice buck in farmland:

Daughter's first deer:

Northern Boreal forest:

My best archery deer. Farmland:

All whitetails.


In the southeastern part of the state we catch brown trout, which were brought over from Scotland and Germany.

(Boreal) BWCA:

 

[toggy]

Welcome to the set.

Clearly, a picture of your muzzle-loader, along with some kills is required….

Maybe I'll have a good photo this afternoon. Hunting this afternoon. I often hunt alone so I don't get nice photos.


This is the MZ CVA Accura V2. Vortex scope. Zeroed to 100 yards but I can't shoot at game past 110 until I practice that. Never have. The big slug drops pretty hard at distance. 250 grains going (approx) 1800 FPS.

 

[RM100]

Wow, excellent.

 

[toggy]

It's also very interesting learning about how you folks hunt. I had to Google "CWD" In the context of hunting the UK, because in the USA it means chronic wasting disease. People In these forums were talking about hunting and eating CWD and I was very confused.

 

[squashhead]

Thanks for the pics, excellent!