Camp Ripley Bowhunt

Hey just wondering how many people on this forum are from MN and got into the Camp Ripley bow hunt and what weekend, this is kind of a late thread to make since the first weekend starts 2marrow hah but good luck to you first weekenders stir them up for us second weekenders!

 

Always a few bruisers taken there each year. Good luck next weekend!

 

Went once, way to many people it was a zoo.

 

ya thats what i hear but oooo well it will still be fun

 

I've never hunted there myself but my dad has before. A zoo Is right. There's some monster buck there though. The archery state record NT was shot there either last year or the year before.

Good luck.

 

I go every year I get drawn. Getting steep though 10 bucks just to apply. Saw one big buck there in all the years I have hunted it. Last year we hardly ever got set up as we kept walking in to set up and someone would already be there. After 4 times doing that your all sweaty, tired and bummed out. No cars around and guys get dropped off so it is chaos. Always a chance on a hog though. But they have more and more hunts now it seems. Veterans hunts, youth hunts all good things but there is not a big deer around every tree.

 

so what weekend are you going?.....i heard there were a couple big 10's took this weekend grossed out at 200 some pounds

 

175 deer were taken the first day the biggest was 208# on the hook.
The 2nd day the DNR said 7 were taken by 2pm when I left.
I saw 3 deer, 1 record book and 1 130 class 10 point and a young doe. All were relaxed with no pressure where I was hunting. The 21st morning I had two hunters set up on either side of me 1/2 hour after legal shooting.

 

A guy from pine city took 2 on the ripley hunt this weekend, story should run in the star trib in the next few days.

Left - 154" gross
Right - 159" gross

 

I'd love to shoot just one of those none the less 2 hah, fliifast u saw those deer this year?.....and all together there was like 300 some deer shot