I've only been hunting for 7 or 8 years...and just the past two years I've picked up bowhunting. In that time, I've seen 1 antlered deer--a small 1 1/2 year old spike buck that I shot last year during rifle season...and believe me, I do hunt pretty hard throughout the year both rifle & bow season.

Long story short here though--I think there has to be SOMETHING done in Wisconsin..atleast in the unit I hunt (24 or 25 I believe). The buck:doe ratio is so out of whack, and it is definitely not getting better! In fact, just as an example, our neighbors across the road shot about 50-70 per year for the past 3 or 4 years. They have shot 4 or 5 nice sized bucks, but I'm guessing they've put down more button bucks than they have all other bucks of legal size (this is not an exageration!)

What I think needs to happen is to put some type of rule to get people to quit shooting the fawns all together...whether it been doing away with T-zone (which I don't hunt anyways), or making hunters use their buck tags on button bucks...I don't know. Unfortunately, Wisconsin DNR is too worried about controlling CWD than keeping the herd in healthy numbers