Anderson: Want to bag a big buck? In Minnesota, you can — but not everywhere

Want to bag a trophy whitetail when Minnesota’s firearms deer season opens Nov. 7? Of course you do. Everyone who has ever climbed into a tree stand prefers that a buck ambles by within shooting range, rather than a doe. And the bigger the better. Advertisement With its own data center, the Boone and Crockett Club (B&C) can help you achieve that goal. Not the kind of data center that sucks aquifers dry and eats up good wildlife habitat. But the kind that has recorded the time and place of every record-book buck killed in Minnesota — and other states — in the past century. Not only time and place. But the temperature at the time of kill, the caliber of rifle or gauge of shotgun used, the distance at which shots are taken — even the barometric pressure.