In a move that’s got hunters across Minnesota buzzing, the state’s legislature is set to finalize a significant change to ...

The Minnesota legislature just wrapped up a special session, opening up deer hunting rules and allowing year-round bass ...

Deer hunters in southern Minnesota can start grabbing their rifles, leaving the shotgun in the gun cabinet, during the next ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota State Senator Steve Drazkowski is praising the removal of southern Minnesota's shotgun-only ...

having a smaller danger zone than shotguns,” he says. The DNR says allowing rifles for deer hunting and overturning the shotgun-only rule in southern Minnesota could also thin the excess deer ...

A proposed bill is aiming to allow hunting rifles for deer hunting across Minnesota by getting rid of ‘shotgun-only’ zones in the southern part of the state. Currently, a large portion of ...

Rifles are commonly used by hunters in northern Minnesota and most other states. The shotgun-only zone was created in 1942 to protect what was then a small deer population because shotguns cannot ...