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Sportsmen Since 1968

Ralph Loos: We consider ourselves to be great deer hunters, but . . .

“How do we get hunters to shoot more deer?” is a question Chris Jacques and others at Illinois DNR’s Wildlife Disease and Invasive Species Program have asked over the years as they’ve battled CWD. (File photo courtesy of the Minnesota DNR)

We think of ourselves as efficient and effective hunting machines, who if permitted, could set up camp in a local woods and walk back out a week later with 11 deer hides and enough venison to feed the hungriest half of the Chicago Bears roster.
In reality, the average hunter among us is only good for about 1.3 to 1.8 deer per year. That’s it. And it sounds about right.

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