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Streams of Thought: Minnesota hunters, don’t sell your deer shotguns just yet

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Patrick Durkin: Bowhunters’ ‘tools of choice’ don’t matter to deer

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Bob Gwizdz: Should protected slot limits on northern pike be expanded to more Michigan lakes?

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