The increased freedom to use crossbows to hunt deer is drawing more people into the sport in Minnesota, particularly youth hunters, according to the Department of Natural Resources. License sales data ...

All of a sudden, archery season will be upon us. Like a frost in the morning follows a warm, Indian Summer afternoon. Seems like summer is never going to end. And then bow season is suddenly here.

MINNEAPOLIS — The increased freedom to use crossbows to hunt deer is drawing more people into the sport in Minnesota, particularly youth hunters, according to the Department of Natural Resources.

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 ...

New York hunters will soon have more access to crossbows to help manage what state officials say is a skyrocketing deer population. Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed into law a bill sponsored by State ...

MADISON, Wis. (WEAU) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reminding hunters that the archery and crossbow deer hunting seasons open Sept. 13, 2025. According to the DNR, the two seasons ...