New this year... are archery deer hunters are abl a crossbow, without having to ob a special disability permit or without having to be aged 60 So any archery hunter that wants to use a crossbow during our archery deer season is able to do so.

Our public land deer hunters need to be aware of legislative change that requires that synthetic or fabric ground blinds used on public land must have a covering of 12 by 12 inches of blaze orange covering on top of that ground b That's something that hunters ca and purchase to apply to an alre existing a ground blind.

Overall, deer population are far pretty well throughout most of t In northern Minnesota, our deer populations did face a consecutive severe winter.

And so hunters may see lower dee in northern Minnesota.

In response to that, we have lowered bag limits or continued to maintain low bag in this part of the state, whereas in central and southern bag limits and hunting opportunities are very similar to what they were last year.

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