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Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Crossbow-hunting deer for years without first obtaining a license
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from the DNR. These reports are from the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of Outdoor News.
State Roundup: Jeff Pritzl, Wisconsin DNR’s deer program leader, to retire in December
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.
Pritzl
Patrick Durkin: Bowhunters’ ‘tools of choice’ don’t matter to deer
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
Wisconsin voter turnout, wolf delisting top Hunter Nation ‘wish list’
Hunter Nation leaders and U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin) urged Wisconsin sportsmen and women to vote and to ramp up pressure on wolf management issues, saying strong voter turnout among hunters, anglers, and trappers could
Here’s how to pursue underrated ‘salmonids’ through the ice
There’s a neighbor at our cabin whose family has fished the lake decades longer than I’ve been alive.
This is Lake Carlos in the Alexandria, Minn., area and growing up, I used to be
Must-have reads for the outdoors enthusiast: Here’s Dan Small’s 2025 book review
Many of us lead busy lives that leave little time for reading, and what reading we do happens on our phones. But I’m happy to report that books are still alive and kicking in the
Decoying Perch: When a duck hunt becomes a fishing outing
It all began on my first ice-fishing trip years ago to what would ultimately become my favorite lake in north-central Minnesota. Although we were there ostensibly for perch, my duck hunter’s switch never turns off,
Be smart, follow these cues when coyote hunting
Coyote hunting picks up in November and continues through the winter. Fur is surely prime by November, but this is not the only reason a hunter chases coyotes.
The hunting continues after some of
Former MLB pitcher among those still fighting alleged hunting violations from 2022 in Illinois
It’s been three years since Illinois Conservation Police issued 29 citations and 22 written warnings to eight people – including a village mayor and a former Major League Baseball player – for alleged hunting violations
