Preliminary WI Harvest Numbers Announced
#1
Preliminary WI Harvest Numbers Announced
Have you seen the preliminary gun harvest numbers? Sounds about like most expected--the harvest is down, way down.
Detailed Analysis:
Statewide: down 29%.
My area: down 31%
And I'm in a Herd Control area so we have "excess" deer!
Last year, my area was down 20%. That means that this year was down 45% from two years ago. That's crazy!
I'm not a horn hunter by any stretch of the imagination but I'm not planning to hunt anything but bucks for a while.
How do the numbers compare with your experience and expected figures?
Detailed Analysis:
Statewide: down 29%.
My area: down 31%
And I'm in a Herd Control area so we have "excess" deer!
Last year, my area was down 20%. That means that this year was down 45% from two years ago. That's crazy!
I'm not a horn hunter by any stretch of the imagination but I'm not planning to hunt anything but bucks for a while.
How do the numbers compare with your experience and expected figures?
#3
#4
Im in MN and our area was down about 26% and that was down 20% from the year before ....so thats about 46%...man, they better get this figured out...I hope they go bucks only next year or at the very least draw for doe permits....there just isn't the deer out there that the MNDNR says there is.....sounds like wisconsin.
#5
Im in MN and our area was down about 26% and that was down 20% from the year before ....so thats about 46%...man, they better get this figured out...I hope they go bucks only next year or at the very least draw for doe permits....there just isn't the deer out there that the MNDNR says there is.....sounds like wisconsin.
#6
Irony
In the midst of announcing a much smaller harvest than recent years, they emphasize the opportunity to go kill more:
I also liked the safety article which noted:
I wonder if hunters not having nearly as much opportunity to take the gun off safety contributed!
“There are still days to hunt in 2009 in herd control units where deer are above goal and in CWD units. The muzzleloader hunt is underway and the December antlerless hunt is around the corner.”
“This was the fourth safest season ever and the fourth time in history that we’ve had a gun deer season with less than 10 incidents,” said Lawhern
#7
Quote"I wonder if hunters not having nearly as much opportunity to take the gun off safety contributed" End quote,
This is an accomplishment not be made light of! Hunter Education works - so don't belittle the DNR here at all!
JW
This is an accomplishment not be made light of! Hunter Education works - so don't belittle the DNR here at all!
JW
#8
To claim the latter is not to address the former in any way. Sounds like you've got a soapbox, JW.
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: South Central Wisconsin
Posts: 1,007
Isn't less deer shot what many of you were hoping for after last season? Many people were on here saying that they won't hunt or won't shoot does until the population increases. It looks like that has happend. So rather than complain, you should be happy right? Fewer deer shot this year = more deer next year.
#10
Isn't less deer shot what many of you were hoping for after last season? Many people were on here saying that they won't hunt or won't shoot does until the population increases. It looks like that has happend. So rather than complain, you should be happy right? Fewer deer shot this year = more deer next year.
Hunters that complain that the herd is too small want to see fewer does harvested because they're let go, not because they can't be found.
And for the record, going into this season, I was on the fence on the DNRs evaluation of the herd size. I've not been a vocal anti-DNR voice.