Rifle Deer Season Opens Saturday

(AP)  Just before dawn Saturday, Minnesota's woods and fields will fill with blaze orange, as a half million hunters begin the pursuit of a million whitetail deer.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is predicting a good season.  Last year 207 thousand deer were tagged.  Similar success is expected this year. 

Most of the corn crop should be in by the weekend, eliminating cover whitetails can use to elude hunters.

In most of the Brainerd Lakes Area, the season runs through November 13th.  For all areas, it ends on November 20th.