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Experiment with new rules

The door to changing deer seasons and rules opened with the “lesser implement” season that allows deer hunters to use archery equipment, crossbows, shotguns, muzzleloaders, rifles and handguns during the nine-day gun deer season, all

No ruling yet in tribal deer shining case

Federal Judge Barbara Crabb did not issue a ruling yesterday for a case in which the state’s six Chippewa tribes want to shoot deer at night from a stationary position – or vehicle – in

Fighting over wolf and deer shining

All parties return to Judge Barbara Crabb’s court this morning to continue an injunction hearing on the tribes’ assertion that they can issue an order – without the state’s blessing – that would allow tribal

State’s gun deer kill up 7 percent

Although harvest numbers for the last seven days of the 2012 gun deer hunt failed to keep pace with the opening weekend tally, preliminary registration totals show a 7.7-percent increase in the overall statewide deer

NRB to hear elk plan amendment

The state Natural Resources Board will consider a significant expansion of the elk population in Wisconsin at its Dec. 13 meeting in Madison, as proposed by the DNR.

Tribal night deer hunting hearing underway

If the morning’s proceedings on the Chippewa tribes’ plan to shoot deer at night are any indication, this injunction hearing in federal court in Madison is going to drift into tomorrow. That means I’ll be

Sick at home and wish you were hunting?

Being cooped up in the house over an extended holiday weekend is a drag. Especially when the whole family has the flu and the duck hunting plans are flushed down the toilet. For the sake

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