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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

Shooting of White and Albino Deer

Some interesting issues were brought to the forefront during the 2012 gun deer season when two white deer were legally killed by hunters in Sauk County. It’s easy for news reporters to hype a store

Increase in license fees?

It’s interesting how cabinet agencies toe the line for the governor who appointed each secretary, even though some agency constituencies may have different ideas. At the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife Funding

Primitive Weapon Rule for the Wisconsin Opener.

Make sure you know the rule before releasing an arrow or bolt Opening weekend is in a couple days and for this first time ever a person can use a “primitive” weapon instead of their

The meanest land owner I ever met

The title of this blog should have been, My First Deer. I sure was grateful when an invitation came to join my friends at their farmhouse – the ultimate deer camp. Last weekend, I shot

Simplifying becoming too complicated

You’ve heard the complaints. “We don’t have any new trout anglers or deer hunters because the regulations are too complicated. We’d need a Philadelphia lawyer to interpret them for us.” Well, guess what. Some of

Bad things don't happen in my neighborhood, do they?

Bad things don’t happen in my neighborhood. That’s what I keep hearing from my neighbors. I have friends who tell me they have no reason to carry a concealed weapon because they actually believe that.

44 Wisconsin wolves tagged through Oct. 31

Wisconsin trappers edged ahead in overall wolf harvest through Oct. 31 with 27 wolves registered as of that day. Hunters had accounted for 17 registered wolves as of Oct. 31, with 44 total wolves registered

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