The herd is down and here's why I feel it is.
In the town near where I hunt, there is normally 3 rows of cars with trailers loaded with deer (usually bucks). This is year after year. This year there might have been one or two cars there when we stopped.
The local grocery store that processes the deer normally has an hour long wait of cars lined up. The parking lot is full. This year there was no one every time we stopped. The guys they hire to do the deer were standing around waiting for someone to show up.
The DNR should base their deer population estimates on this, not their goofy formula. And they already have proposed an extended season next year before the deer kill numbers were even in!!!
Special hunts, earn-a-buck and all these other DNR bull**** programs have decimated the Wisconsin deer herd.
And what is there excuse? Foggy conditions and poor hunting practices. I don't think so.....
