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Henry Repeating Arms moving full operation to northern Wisconsin

Featured, Gear & Gadgets, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Wisconsin /

With its announcement Tuesday, March 18, that the company is buying two more buildings in Ladysmith and moving in all of its remaining New Jersey manufacturing, Henry Repeating Arms firmly planted its flag in northern Wisconsin.
“We are putting all of our eggs in one basket – the Wisconsin basket – because it makes us more efficient, more productive, and allows for more collaboration amongst our design and engineering teams, all while sustaining and enhancing Henry’s solid reputation for quality,” said Anthony Imperato.

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Dean Bortz: Habitat stamp, white deer just two issues up for April 14 review in Wisconsin

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, National Fishing, National Hunting, Opinion, Wisconsin /

As most sportsmen know by now, Wisconsin’s annual fish and game rule change process sort of kicks off each year on the second Monday of April during the annual spring fish and game hearings.
That’s when the DNR and Conservation Congress come together in each county to review proposed DNR rule changes, DNR advisory questions, Natural Resources Board advisory questions, and congress advisory questions.

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Wisconsin State Roundup: Bills introduced as possible sandhill crane hunting season gains steam

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Legislation to create a sandhill crane hunting season in Wisconsin was introduced to the State Senate March 7 and the Assembly March 11.
The bills, 2025 Senate Bill 112 and 2025 Assembly Bill 117, are now in the Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage, chaired by Sen. Robert Stafsholt (R-New Richmond) from St. Croix County and the Assembly Committee on Sporting Heritage, chaired by Rep. Treig Pronschinske (R-Mondovi).

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Dean Bortz: Habitat-based deer units back in place in Wisconsin’s forest zones

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Wisconsin deer hunters who have been begging and pleading for the DNR and Natural Resources Board (NRB) to dump the Dr. James Kroll county deer unit system and go back to habitat-based numbered units like we use to have can now be thankful.
On Feb. 26, NRB members voted unanimously to adopt a plan the puts the state’s two forest zones, northern and central, back into numbered units. There are some huge thank-you’s to be offered here, but there first thank you has to go to a man who is no longer with us.

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Wisconsin State Roundup: An explanation on how same hunter could shoot two Oneida County bucks

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Opinion, Wisconsin /

I was more than a little surprised by the number of readers who called or emailed to ask how Rick Sievert, of Rhinelander, could shoot two Oneida County bucks with an air rifle during the gun and muzzleloader seasons.
I received 13 calls or emails regarding photos of Sievert with a Nov. 25 8-point buck in the Feb. 21 issue and a Dec. 5 12-point buck on Page 32 of the same issue. I’m a little surprised readers connected the two photos. We had three full pages of reader photos in that print issue. I read each of those captions on the three pages and did not make the connection, although I’m scanning for errors, not looking to see who shot or caught what.

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State Roundup: Legendary Wisconsin wildlife biologist authors another book

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Opinion, Wisconsin /

Neil F. Payne ranks as one of Wisconsin’s legendary wildlife biologists. My knowledge of Payne began simply through his emails to me every spring and fall asking for an address change from his summer residence to his wintering groups.
Over the years we started talking and it was then I discovered the colorful character who walks this Earth as Neil F. Payne. I’ve never actually met Payne, but I’ve come to enjoy our email exchanges and phone calls. I’m happy to say Payne has written another book, this one entitled Wildlifer: Wisconsin Origin to Climate Change.

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Dean Bortz: Spring hearing update, and is work being done to halt the return of numbered deer units in Wisconsin?

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What we’re going to talk about here today – a possible change in Wisconsin’s deer unit boundaries to numbered units in the two forest zones and a preview of the April 14 spring fish and game rule change proposals – was intended to be handled in two separate news stories.
Both of those topics will come up Wednesday, Feb. 26 in Madison at the Natural Resources Board (NRB) meeting that starts at 8:30 that morning in GEF II, the DNR office. Even with a 40-page print issue in the Feb. 21 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News, we ended up filling all the news pages before we filed the stories handling these two topics. So we’ll do that here.

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Wisconsin Wildlife Federation files appeal on greater prairie chickens’ behalf

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Work on a 7,100-acre solar farm in Portage County planned for March will proceed even as a Columbia County Circuit Court handles an appeal filed last week by the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation (WWF) on a solar farm permit approved for Vista Solar Sands (VSS) by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
A member of the Society Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus, a member group of WWF, worked with WWF leaders to draft an appeal that, in brief, charges any remaining greater prairie chickens that still exist on the Buena Vista Wildlife Area will be further endangered or extirpated by the VSS solar farm project that comes within 500 feet of known prairie chicken leks, or breeding grounds.

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Dean Bortz: Should stands, blinds be left overnight on Wisconsin public land? Plenty of mixed opinions

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In January 2017, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approved a rule change that has since allowed hunters to place stands and ground blinds overnight on state-owned land north of Hwy. 64 from September through January.
It sounds as though the level of sportsmanship related to stand and blind placement may be deteriorating and we’ll likely see a citizen resolution looking to nix the practice entering the spring hearings in April. I recently asked readers their thoughts on overnight stand and blind placement. That drew a strong response for and against. Here are the thoughts of a few readers.

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