I hunt a 28 acres in Mcgrath, Minnesota during the rut with the in-laws. It's not great property. Not much to draw in the deer. I've started working plots and gonna start cutting to help acorn production. 10 acres are alfalfa and I hunt the woods by a swamp. Father in-law hunts over the feild, a lot of times it feels like we are wasting the rut but it's become expected tradition. The rut is my least enjoyable hunting time do to this. I also hunt public in Northern Wisconsin before and after the rut, woods with lots of wet land and islands. I hunt this alone, it's when I'm truely free and at peace. Lots of deer and not many bow hunters but becomes over run once rifle starts. In Wisconsin rifle is king.
Right now I have a weird hunting experience. Haha. Lots of smaller 200 to 300 acre or so public land spots. Name of the game this off season is to find as many places where I can get away from others as possible.
I pound the ground As the public land ranger Where I roam, no Booner is in danger And yon yearlings here no sound As to full draw I go An arrow is released So on tender vension veal I feast Once a every year or so There’s danger in the woods But no beast or hunter is the grief Better be armed for catalytic converter thief For methheads do not live as honesty should To kill a big buck, every hunter’s dream Is the noble goal, courageous But on public, some would say, outrageous Or it would seem For the public land ranger With bow and arrow a threat be Owns no land and deer be few to see In the land owned by all, one deer is victory
