Hunting
Dean Bortz: Let’s move Thanksgiving out of Wisconsin’s deer season
This is a purely personal and selfish suggestion and one I’m making only because I think I’m growing cynical, ornery, and old – the old part maybe having something to do with the first two
Wisconsin 10-pointer is an antlered doe… or is it?
Lancaster high schooler Georgia Vesperman and her dad, Jerry, were surprised when they rolled over the Wisconsin 10-pointer she had dropped at 260 yards during the 2023 gun season. It had no visible male genitalia.
Patrick Durkin: Hunting camp’s legends, memories live on
When walking around a dead man’s hunting camp, each glance and every step seems to stir up old stories, memories, and unasked questions from decades-long friendships.
When the day ends and you’re back at
Novice hunter’s perseverance pays off during Wisconsin gun season
Ironically, when the buck of a lifetime wandered by his Washburn County deer stand on the second day of the Wisconsin nine-day gun season, Minneapolis, Minn., resident Cody Chamberlain was reading the book, Undaunted Courage.<br
Patrick Durkin: Hot tip from the grave doesn’t mesh with actual hunting trip to Idaho’s Panhandle
A death-bed confession of sorts inspired Logan Hyrkas to organize a hunt for mountain deer in Idaho’s Panhandle during the first half of November.
The hot tip originated something like this: Hyrkas, 31, chatted
Wisconsin State Roundup: More crossbow hunters at least part of the reason for lower gun deer harvest in the north
There’s always a temptation to do some dissecting of deer harvest numbers and what those numbers might mean once we get a look at the preliminary gun deer harvest totals and those from the early
Female suspect receives $5K bond in tri-county poaching case from southeast Wisconsin
The adult female suspect in a widespread three-county poaching case in southeast Wisconsin left her initial appearance in Washington County Circuit Court Dec. 2 on a $5,000 signature bond with three stipulations:
• That
Wisconsin’s statewide gun deer kill up a tad from 2023
There’s a lot less blaze orange in Wisconsin’s annual gun deer hunt, but the 553,652 license buyers were still able to bring home more venison than they did a year ago.
However, for the
Wardens at Work: Wisconsin man fined $10,407 for poached Grant Co. buck
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Iowa County Conservation Warden Mike Burns was a bit perplexed regarding a headless deer carcass in Grant County called in on the DNR’s anonymous tip line in December 2022.<br
