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If your brain has been doing gymnastics trying to keep up with Minnesota's deer hunting rule changes, you are not alone. This whole rifle-versus-shotgun situation has gone from "simple old map" to "better check that county board agenda." So, we updated our map again to help make sense of it. The big statewide change is this: Minnesota's long-standing shotgun-only zone is repealed starting with the 2026 deer season. That means, in general, legal rifles and shotguns can be used statewide for deer hunting unless a county in the old shotgun zone passes its own ordinance to remain shotgun-only. The Minnesota...