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The Outdorksman Podcast Espisode 2

Minnesota's 2021 Top Whitetail Permit Areas

Welcome to 21' leaderboard. It's absolutely amazing to see these stats roll in again. 

15 units produced 40.5%  of the state's harvest numbers. Minnesota had 130 Units for 2021.  

To put that into perspective: (as a public land hunter whose very interested in these things)

11.5% of the DPA's produced 40.5% of the deer. 

Clean off your dork-glasses, we're getting serious.

We're going to have 2 separate classes. 

1. Harvest Numbers & 2. Deer Per Mile 

Lets's get to it.

Harvest Numbers:

DPAsπŸ‘‡  Harvest #'sπŸ‘‡

15.    649         3331

14.    227         3347

13.    246         3613

12.    239         3860

11.    225         4245

10.    604         4287

9.      157         4395 πŸ‘ˆ **Down 400ish from last year**16 day firearm season**

8.      221         4554

7.      184         4556 πŸ‘ˆ**Also a large unit w/16 day firearm season**

6.      215         4564

5.      214         4998 πŸ‘ˆ **Down 500ish from last year**

4.      240         5017

3.      277         5058

2.      213         6658πŸ‘ˆ **Down over 1000 from last year**

1.      241         8059

That's a lot of deer.

Now for the other measurement.


Deer Harvested Per Mile (Density) :

Overlap units will be highlighted. 

 UnitπŸ‘‡         DPMπŸ‘‡

1.    214            9.02πŸ‘ˆ  **spits coffee**

2.    241            8.09 πŸ‘ˆ **For the size of this DPA, that's crazy**

3.    240            7.87

4.     646            7.46 πŸ‘ˆ**Wildcard** (9.14 last year) Still a lot of deer down in that South East corner.

5.     227            7.09

6.     222            7.01 πŸ‘ˆ**Public wanted a 50% increase** (it worked)

7.     221            6.93

8.     225            6.86

9.     649            6.77

10.   215            6.51

11.    604            6.39

12.    213            6.29

13.    277            6.22

14.    249            6.03 πŸ‘ˆ**Hunter success rate was 53% in 2020**(likely less for 2021)

15.    223            5.63 πŸ‘ˆ **Has some public lands**


Calling out a winner in here is pretty subjective. But,  241, 240, 214, 600's are holding strong.

The Worst DPA? # 117. Harvested 11 Deer Total.


Look up your unit here

Click your unit, click "detail report" in the pop-up.

Thanks for reading!






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