If Jeff Pritzl’s name sounds familiar to readers, it’s likely because you’ve seen it on these pages fairly often over the past four, five years as Pritzl ran the DNR’s statewide deer program.
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Wisconsin’s bowhunters registered 103,904 deer during 2024’s four-month arrow-flinging season, the fourth highest archery kill in modern times and the fifth in which they’ve killed over 100,000 whitetails.
That success – driven mostly by
The crew here at Wisconsin Outdoor News would like to take just a minute to wish everyone the best of luck on the upcoming 2025 nine-day gun deer season opener that will kick-off with the
There comes a time in mid-November, weeks after the kaleidoscope of color has faded, when my thoughts turn towards steely gray skies and drab woods hopefully coated with a few inches of fresh snow.
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 14, 2025 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “If a single man plants himself on his convictions and then abides, the huge world will come ’round to him.”
Maybe so, but Keith McCaffery, 86, of Rhinelander,
I had the privilege of interviewing Dan Schmidt, the editor of Deer and Deer Hunting, for our ongoing Quick Chat series, with Schmidt’s interview appearing here.
As you read through the piece you’ll see
Concerns over the effects of spent lead ammunition prompted federal resource agencies in the United States and Canada to phase in a ban on lead shot shell ammo for waterfowl hunting starting in 1987. Now,
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 24, 2025 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
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