Wi gun deer season to be extended...

[BowHuntingFool]

I just heard a news bit on the local news that there is a bill trying to extend gun deer season from 9 to 23 days? This is the first I heard of this, anyone else know more? I don' t know if I like that idea! It will be voted on in April and if passes the change will take place this season! wow! [X(]That sucks, I like the late season bowhunt![:@]

[ness5575]

here is the story from teh milwaukee journal-sentinal

http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/feb03/121444.asp

[Sswpriz]

Boy, how many times does a proposal like this have to get shot down when it' s voted on to die ???? They just keep bringing this monster back up and it keeps dieing after all the votes are tallied !!!

[basserman]

Just like school referendums sspriz, they never seem to go away until they pass. Leave the season alone!!!! 9 days is fine.

[TJD]

This is, unfortunately, another example of the DNR' s linear way of thinking. " If there is an average of X number of deer shot per day, then if we add 15 days to the season, we will then have 15X number of deer killed." Problems are: 1) about 1/2 half of the harvest occurs in the first three days of the season, 2) most hunters won' t hunt more than 9 days anyway, and 3) the deer will be virtually impossible to see, much less shoot, after two weeks of gun hunting.

If they enact it, so be it. I just don' t think we' ll get anything in the way of an increased harvest.

[Deerslayer_37]

i dont care either way. we hunt in the CWD intensive harvest zone. seasons long enough already.

slayer

[Rangerlab]

Deerslayer- Do you know if they are going to have special hunts in the CWD areas again this summer?

[BowHuntingFool]

What would be ideal would have a second or late season gun! After late season bow, say around Jan. 4th - 17th! This way we don' t lose out on bow and have to where blaze orange in the tree! Deer will simmer down a bit...maybe! JMO.

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