Many units have been placed back in herd control. Not sure how I feel about that. Unit 69 where I do most of my hunting is also back to herd to control status. On one hand, the permits will be cheaper. On the other hand it encourages the gun hunters to shoot everything they see. It is what it is I guess. At least they are keeping the NE units buck only.
Wow still looks like there is a lot of thing to be looked at in the WDNR CWD= kill everything and in a couple years the hole state will be a CWD unit Heard control is over 50% of the state. DEC. 8-11th state wide antlerless hunt This really doesn't sound like WDNR is trying to bring back Wisconsin deer hunting. Just SAD!!
That is the thing that frustrates me Tony. They finally got it figured out. They only give it 1 year and back to the same old crap. Wonder how many doe permits they will release for 43?
Brad I think it actually has been 2 years for the gun hunters but I could be wrong. Next year I'm willing to bet this zone will be back to buck only once the hunters wipe whats left out pretty much.
This CWD herd management crap is really getting old, when will the madness end? We are going on 9 years now in 73 E Iowa County the population is almost gone, and the wolves are starting to move in. Not good...
Wow! I have a lot in common with you guys! The majority of my bow hunting in WI is in 73E (CWD). Luckily, the majority of the area landowners are huge supporters of QDM so we have a decent population of deer in our area. I see many more per day during bow than during gun season....not sure why. I'm not talking 15-30 deer per day like some of you, but at least a couple per day. Where are you hunting Tommy2Shot? We are near Highland. I was hunting the gun season primarily until 2008 in Unit 43 in the "Crocker Hills", but after 3 seasons of not seeing a single deer while hunting 5-9 days per year we realized that the deer population is way too low to even get up to the deer camp (which I do miss!!). The group I hunted with have not taken a deer since the '06 season. Historically (back in the late 90's/early 2000's), we would all have bucks by the end of the first weekend. The remainder of the week was for butchering, eating and drinking.
We have a 90 acre farm up in the hills a little south and east of Avoca about 5 min. Its good to here more people in the area are on the same page with QDM. I to see far more deer early in the bow season than gun and its nothing like it used to be. But its slowly getting better, just keep letting the little guys walk and dont get greedy with EAB. later man
