deer season
- By Mavis FodnessJanuary 14, 2026Rock County will not follow state law allowing rifles to be used during the November deer hunting season. Only shotguns will be permitted if commissioners adopt an ordinance opting out of the state law that went into effect Jan. 1. A public hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, before commissioners will make a final decision. At their Jan. 6 meeting, commissioners unanimously…
By Mavis FodnessDecember 09, 2025Paul Aukes held up a piece of quarter-inch angle iron Tuesday night, Dec. 2, at the public input meeting about rifles vs. shotguns for deer hunting. Pierced through the angle iron were two perfectly round bullet holes from a rifle. “This is what a 30-06 does,” he said of the potential damage to a person. “I’m against it.” Aukes was one of 40 people attending the listening session at the Rock…
By Scott Rall, outdoors columnistNovember 10, 2020The firearms deer season started in most of Minnesota on Nov. 7. In the southwest part of the state it runs for 11 days. Other regions have different dates and season lengths. I am a pretty serious deer hunter but have not harvested a deer in over 30 years. This by no means indicates that I have skipped the opportunity to buy a license and take part in the hunt for any of those three decades. I…
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