DULUTH — Minnesota’s archery deer season starts Sept. 16 and, for the first time, anyone who wants to hunt with a crossbow can use one. Legislators last spring changed the state law, which previously ...

Minnesota is heading into its second archery deer hunting season Saturday, Sept. 14, under a temporary law that allows anyone to use crossbows, but it’s still unclear how the first season went in 2023 ...

In May 2023, near the end of that year’s legislative session, a conference committee deal was struck to allow any licensed Minnesota archer to hunt deer with a crossbow. The proposal never was heard ...

Four months after all Minnesota archers could legally deploy crossbows to kill deer, they certainly have. Fred Bear must be tossing and turning in his grave. Bear, who died in 1988, was modern bow ...

Nov. 1—One of the two archery hunters who participated in the recent first-ever accessible deer hunt on the East Grand Forks side of the Greenway succeeded in filling their tag, a hunt organizer says.

CAMP RIPLEY — Starting Aug. 1 archery deer hunters can purchase permits to hunt on the Camp Ripley military installation. “Camp Ripley wanted to find an option to continue our partnership with the ...

Brian Peters, of Willmar, left, registers to compete in the Minnesota State Archery Association regional qualifier conducted Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, at the Little Crow Archers indoor range in Willmar ...

Crossbows appear to have increased buck harvest slightly in 2023 and were popular among younger and older hunters. In Wisconsin, the popularity of crossbows has grown fast in the past decade.