Season Wrap Up

Good Sunday Evening everyone, this is Kevin again with the report for week two of the MN Deer Hunt at Ole Lake FArm

It has been a very active week since I posted last Sunday Night. On Monday Night Grace shot her first whitetail deer. All the youth have now shot at least one deer this year; what a load off my mind. I don’t know why I worry so much about getting the kids shooting but I do. It is so cool that so many people have had an opportunity to harvest their first deer on the property over the years; we really have it good.

On Wednesday evening my uncle Gene Flowers shot a deer to make this his first deer shot in Minnesota in a whole lot of years. My guess is about 40, so welcome back Uncle Gene! This is just the first of many back here in MN. Then on Saturday morning Dad (Rollie) filled his tag and we were pretty much done. We had a total of 12 people hunting and we filled 11 tags, leaving only my tag open. We did sit in the stands on Saturday night, but this morning we did not go out, we just waited a while and went out and took down all the stands. 

And finally, some thoughts about the 2017 deer season at Ole Lake Farm. As a group, we saw over 90 deer, many were the same ones, multiple times, but that is still a lot of deer. We did not see many bucks, just the one Kori shot, and one Nick saw opening day that stayed in the brush. Last but best, we did not have to track any wounded deer, they were all one shot kills. I am especially proud of the four amigos, Nick, Kellen, Grace and Sammy, who really did an awesome job this year. It has been an exciting year for Kellen, Grace and Sammy who got whitetail here, and they all three harvested a pronghorn in Wyoming earlier this fall. If they go elk hunting, they would have a huge amount of meat.

So concludes deer hunting season for another year.  Debby will be back next week with a farm update - she seems to thing people might want to hear about the turkeys...