RE: wisconsin DNR CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New report came out on 12-9-08. Typical DNR....blame the hunters. According to them, there are plenty of deer...we as hunters are not trying hard enough!
Wardens: Interest In Deer Hunting Waned
Wardens Issue Report Tuesday
MADISON, Wis. -- There might be another reason hunters killed fewer deer during Wisconsin's traditional gun hunt -- the hunters themselves.
State wardens said in a report issued Tuesday that hunters spent only three or four hours at time in the woods and might have hunted only a few days out of the 9-day season.
They said hunting dropped off on the Sunday of opening weekend and didn't pick up for the rest of the season. They also reported fewer large groups of hunters, fewer people at deer camps, fewer youth hunters and fewer deer drives than in years past.
According to the report, the state sold 642,419 gun deer licenses, up 987 from 2007. But hunters killed 276,985 deer, down 19 percent from last year.