HI Jeff:

Here is the link to the harvest data by unit; I don't have one by county, but there may be one that I have yet to find:


http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/.../harvest03.htm

To get the percentages, you need to add in the t-zone hunts and add together the bow and gun kills (sorry, I did leave out the muzzleloader season. Did not seem to be a real big impact either way).

Jeff, I don't dispute that some units need to have more does killed. But if that is the case, make sure that they are DOES, first of all. The DNR has cuffed this guesstimate for years that only about one in four of the antlerless deer killed are buck fawns. This based on a few spot checks at registration stations years ago. Since buck fawns are very easy to mistake for mature does, I would bet that the total gets pretty close to 40% in many units. Second, like the carpenters admonition cautions, "Measure twice, cut once." In other words, make sure you have a real problem before you engage in any drastic activity, or try to implement a solution to a problem that isn't there. As I mentioned before, our unit is now EAB based on a significantly reduced overwinter goal...I'm relatively certain that other units are like that as well. Again, it isn't that the deer population is higher, it is that the population goal is now lower. So in theory, as well as in practice, if the DNR can reduce that target with impunity, then a unit may have an impossible task in reaching a subjective goal set by the DNR.