Minnesota North Outdoors

TOWER - While some local papers splashed weighty headlines across the tops of their pages this week declaring a 7 percent drop in the deer harvest compared to 2011, most hunters were left to wonder just what that really means.

You see while dramatic headers may sell papers, in order to understand how significant the final harvest number is - and where it comes from - you need to take a look at past seasons.

That's where you'll find the real story.

Every deer hunter who spen...

Sept. 13, 2012

By JESSE WHITE

But an opportunity to hunt on a friend’s family land changed that and after finally being drawn for a tag this year the 38-year-old Mountain Iron was able to set up shop in rural Gilbert to hunt during the 2012 season.

That hunt proved to be very successful, as Peliska bagged a nearly 300 pound boar (male) on the first day of the season.

And, he did it with a b...