
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.

Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from the DNR. These reports are from the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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
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