New MS Deer Regulations

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You can now hunt within 100 yds of a feeder, and in sight of the feeder

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Each hunter on private land can kill 1 buck under the size limit. Thinning out yearling bucks

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This is new? Whoops

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season kicked off October 1 for the real men that bow hunt......

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yessir

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-You can now hunt within 100 yds of a feeder, and in sight of the feeder

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Worth pointing out that feed must be provided in a covered above ground feeder, and must be at least 100 yards from anyone else's property. Feed cannot be poured or piled directly onto the ground.

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Worth pointing out that feed must be provided in a covered above ground feeder, and must be at least 100 yards from anyone else's property. Feed cannot be poured or piled directly onto the ground.

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Yessir. Thank You

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There's also different regs for new South Delta zone. It really is hard to keep up these days.

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Count me in the group that is glad to see it get a little more complicated. Up until 2017 the state was only split into three zones. It's still pretty straightforward to figure out what's going on, but the state is at least making an effort to apply more appropriate regs to each area.

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Then, for the last 20 years they've changed in some material fashion almost every year. It's absurd.

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All I can say is if you think MS hunting regulations are difficult to understand I hope you never try to hunt out west or in the NE.

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Our local game warden told me a story a few years ago about how he got a call from a church about a family that needed some deer meat. So he went out in the pasture behind his house and shot one. And as he was driving it over to the family he realized something he had done was illegal (antler size or season or something).

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That sounds like George. I hunted for years just up the road from you. Nicest guy you could meet unless you were blatently abusing the resource.

I don't miss all the new rules and changes there but I do miss the hunting.

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That sounds like George.

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No. It was TM.

One time in college a buddy of mine was bow hunting with us and it was hot. Early October. I told him to walk out to the paved road at 10 am and I would pick him up. So he's there waiting and George drives by. Sees him standing on the side of the road in camo, with a bow.

Backs up and rolls the window down about 4 inches. Motions my buddy to approach the truck. "Are you with No Colors?" My friend said he was. "You got your hunting license?" Friend said he did. "Ok, good luck" Rolled the window back up the 4 inches, and headed on his way. Never even had to turn his A/C down, much less actually get out of the truck.

It's the only time he ever checked one of us in 20 years