Olmsted and Freeborn Counties are following suit with a new Minnesota state law allowing rifles for deer hunting.

Freeborn County will allow rifles for deer season under Minnesota's new hunting law, after commissioners declined to keep the ...

Rural Byron resident Matt Prigge speaks Tuesday, March 17, 2026, to Olmsted County commissioner during a public hearing regarding whether rifles should be used for deer hunting. He said he believes ...

Olmsted County has seven commissioners. We have no idea how many of them — if any — hunted deer last year, but on March 17, ...

The option to establish a county restriction is limited to the counties that were in the shotgun-only zone, which covered southern Minnesota. So far, commissioners in four of the seven counties ...

Le Sueur County is holding a public hearing to hear from residents about whether to remain a shotgun only deer hunting ...

Most hunters will help a buddy out if they can. That part is not unusual. Somebody’s short on gear,... The post Man Says He Loaned Out a Rifle for Deer Season — and Got It Back Rusted, Broken, and ...

For a good part of the season, deer hunting can be as much an obsession as it is enjoyment. Why else would anyone spend so many hours sitting in a tree? But when the rut is over in the North Country; ...

Montana’s either-sex, either-species deer tag can dismay resident hunters. But with a guest from out state, it can also be a ...

When deer season ends in Western New York, the woods don’t go quiet — they just change hands. The blaze orange fades, the big ...