General Hunting Discussion
Frustrated with deer hunting in Wisconsin?
12/2/13 @ 11:05 AM
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Hopefully this major cold snap.....lowest sustained in 25 yrs wont take what few deer are left out there. We've been lucky a severe winter kill has not occurred for awhile. That's all we need to add to the list of an overpopulation of deer predators, lack of hunter restraint, and a DNR that cant count or refuses to listen to sportsman. Like Clint says: "don't piss down my back and tell me its raining". I can tell you boys that the 1980's were the good ol' days. 
Just a thought on opening access....I also understand that WY and WI are completely different.
Just hunted wyoming late season whitetail with my uncle. They have a landowners tag that you give to the land owner when you harvest a deer. The landowner gets 16 dollars for each deer shot. Only 22 dollars for the tag.
Just a thought for here...you have too many deer, get paid to let people on
We hunt in Forest County and until you get the Forest Service to do more logging the deer hunting is only going to get worse. Mature woods will not support many deer. The bear population at least by us is knocked way back and yes there are a few wolves but there is nothing for the deer to eat during a bad winter.Get close to town where there is private land and there are quite a few deer but in the National Forest its getting a bit sparse and its isn't going to get any better till they log.
I gave up deer hunting in WI. Both gun and Bow,why? Because we have a cabin in Vilas county and saw a total of 5 deer all year long. That was from the first weekend in April when we open the cabin until the week before the gun deer season. Even the weekend of the youth hunt we saw not one person in Blaze orange. Yes, we were out and about, matter of fact we heard only 3 shots. Don't know if they were at deer or other game. Plans are to sell lots of equipment. Guys looking pm me.
my 2 cents on this,our group hunted the 9 mile swamp and ada lake area for 20 years and left there 6 yrs ago because of what we saw coming.too many wolves and bears yes, but in my opinion its the lack of logging which provided the food for those deer. in the 1990's you could drive into wabeno on Saturday night and see lots of huge bucks in the back of trucks and during the day you'd hear shooting all day. then about 1999 something changed? we didn't see deer or hear shooting, the last year there was 2005 and I heard 5 shots all opening day and that was enough for me to leave the big woods I loved so much. I hunted Waupaca cty the next year and saw 66 deer on opening day taking a nice 9ptr and a doe. now were in taylor cty and its lean up there too.
You guys are dead on with the number of predators. In units 18 and 19 we finally had some snow cover. The number of predator tracks were amazing, Not to mention actual sightings--we saw a bear, 2 different wolves, a coyote and a bobcat. I'm sure this is leading to nocturnal movement.....along with other factors.
There are thousands more wolves than the dnd will admit. The whole numbers thing is a scam. Deer numbers also. Its a very sick joke. It actualy indcredible how much mis-information we are fed.. Choose for yourself to spit it out or digest it like the rest of the sheep
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