If anyone has friends or family up there and can identify a place for us to hunt, I'll drive and pull my enclosed trailer. I can take 2 passengers and their equipment, cause I'm sure my wife will want to go also.

We would be fine just shooting does.

Anyone wanting to hunt Michigan should just go hunt state land... Better dress warm

What makes you say that wolves wiped them out? The U.P has a harsh winter and never had high densities to my knowledge, I know they didn't in the early 90s

Michigan has a lot more deer hunters than Bama does... Plenty of rednecks too

Yeah except they call em woodticks up there.

Just pointing out a fact... I liked hunting public land there more than Bama. They baited so much ya just had to find buck trails and sit

Because it's the government and they always want money without ever simply doing the right thing.

Michigan has about a 2 week rifle season and maybe a 1-2 week muzzleloader season. That's it.

Hollering something about how they got too many deer is complete BS. This is a money maker and they know it. They need the money to pay their own pack of Dr. Deer morons to tell you all about the "Science" behind everything they are doing. Dr. Fauci style.

They aren't serious about any of it with regulations like these.. This is an example of the other end of the spectrum in hunting regulations. They are over-regulated and have lost hunters.

Alabama on the other hand has no regulations that are meaningful or that really matter unless you get extremely unlucky and get caught.

Example of the opposite ends of the spectrum.

Both riddled with some gaslighting BS that any good Democrat would envy.

They aren't used to a long season and very liberal bag limits. Alabama Hillbillies are trained , professional deer eradicators .

Except they have a long bow season. The rut falls right before gun season during bow season. A lot of good bowhunters up there. A very short but intense rut, I've shot some good bucks on public land up here.

I noticed in WI that it was a 9 day gun season which was during or right after the rut. Bowhunting was easy but come opening day 1 million would hit the woods. So they killed a lot in a short span. Skip forward and I asked Steve a few years ago if he was still hunting and a quick nope. He said between CWD and the wolves there were no deer. He hunts public lands up around the UP. Florence, Forest and another county he liked.

Liberty hunt: Sept. 14 – 15, 2024
Early antlerless firearm: Sept. 21 – 22, 2024 (rifle or bow)
Independence hunt: Oct. 17 – 20, 2024
Archery: Oct. 1 – Nov. 14 and Dec. 1, 2024 – Jan. 1, 2025
Regular firearm: Nov. 15 – 30, 2024
Muzzleloading (Zones 1, 2 and 3): Dec. 6 – 15, 2024
Late antlerless firearm: Dec. 16, 2024 – Jan. 1, 2025
Extended urban archery: Jan. 2 – 31, 2024

I hunted some good Michigan river bottom property for several years and had opportunities at good bucks every year. Had public land on both sides. One opening day of gun season I saw 42 deer several of which were bucks and the next day saw zero. Never seen a more.dramatic example.of.how.pressure shuts down deer movement.

The best bow hunting is the week leading up to rifle day. I say rifle day, because the morning sounds like a fire-fight on the Eastside of Detroit. By lunch, I'm ready to head to Alabama.

November 1 thru 17 are the best days to be in the woods up there imo.

I asked Steve about hunting opening day of gun. He said you don’t want to be here I promise.