WI Daily Update: Avoid hanging your deer stands in ash trees
Wisconsin hunters are reminded to avoid placing deer stands in
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August 18, 2026
Minnesota DNR’s confiscated equipment auction: Where one person’s mistake could be your next treasure
It’s that time again, when confiscated, abandoned, and otherwise orphaned outdoor equipment is put up for auction by the DNR. Since online auctions have become the norm these days, bidders are only a few clicks away from adding to their stockpiles. Will you be among them?
The bread and butter of the auction, of course, is a healthy spread of guns and bows. In the 2024 auction, the most recent one held, there were over 300 firearms and almost 80 bows. There is also always an offering of other items, like taxidermy, and fishing and camping equipment.
This old duck hunting coat has some incredible stories to tell
On an old coat rack in a basement, an old peg holds a treasured relic: a coat, but not just any coat. It’s an old Redwing canvas hunting jacket, and like the man who wore it, this coat carries the weight and wisdom of a duck hunter long gone.
Its fabric, softened and faded by countless trips to the marsh, is a vestige of days gone by.
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Dean Bortz: Wisconsin’s Chequamegon Bay whitefish win round one
It’s sort of hard to imagine, but in the five decades I’ve been roaming around Wisconsin’s outdoors there are still a few things I haven’t done. Fishing for whitefish, whether it be by ice or open water, can now be scratched off that list.
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Drone aided in recovery of Wisconsin 10-pointer in Washburn County
From Alaska, where he worked and hunted for years before moving to Shell Lake, Wis., Steve Hemshrot’s passion for all things outdoors hasn’t abated.
Proof of this is reflected in his hunting a mature buck in Washburn County in northern Wisconsin that he has seen in trail camera photos for the past few hunting seasons. Hemshrot was successful in finally shooting and recovering this buck last fall, but not without the aerial assistance of a drone.
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