Recent content by gunther89

We are in Sauk County and our population is high but mature buck numbers are getting lower. Here is a photo we just got yesterday and id bet a 100 dollar bill that deer will be dead within a month. CWD is an issue in our area.

I grew up hunting in Sauk County and would routinely go for drives over in Richland County to look at fields covered in deer. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary to see fields of over 100 deer in them including seeing a dozen or more bucks that looked huge. Now you are lucky to see a field with...

Our land is in Sauk County which is one of the hot spots for CWD. We have had 5 bucks 3.5+ test positive for CWD. I can say our population has grown in the last 5 years and is at a point where deer need to be shot to keep the herd in check. I will say we dont have as many bucks reaching 5.5+...

Isn't law enforcement trained to keep shooting until the situation is resolved?

My question is, when the dnr brings in sharp shooters to an area to get rid of deer, how do they get deer to congregate in a close proximity to a blind? They put out piles and piles of shelled corn..... you're telling me that every single deer that will visit that site will get harvested? Not a...

Yeah I'm in Sauk county

Saw close to 30 deer opening day. Only 2 of those were bucks. Sunday morning shot a big doe. Found out that neighbors shot our #1 and #2 hit list bucks. Next year isn't looking good for bucks.

I can honestly say we have found dead bucks on our place. We had pictures of a 4.5 yr old buck all summer and fall, seemed healthy and about December 1st we noticed he wasn't looking right. Figured it was the rut until we got pics late December and he looked sickly. Found him dead early January...

Wisconsin has it where if you shoot a cwd positive deer, they will re-issue you another tag that's good for that year and the next. My cousin has shot I believe 3 bucks that have been positive and thus has 2 buck tags for bow hunting most years. Wisconsin should be used in a seminar on what...

My biggest was a bow kill in 2018 that went 187.

I always thought as long as you had a good amount of ag around, a buck with good genetics could reach 150+ if given age. Where we are at in South central Wisconsin, ag is all over and thus we see bigger bucks. One thing that I can't quite wrap my head around is how northern Wisconsin used to...

We've killed a 187, 167, 160, and a 150 off our 63 acres along with a few other 4.5+ yr old lower scoring bucks. Our neighbors constantly say, we wish we could shoot big ones like you and say they are gonna pass the 2.5 and 3.5 year olds but every year it's the same story, we'll he looked big...

Our oak in our yard is doing the same thing. Could it be too much rain? We've had an insane amount of rain in Wisconsin this year so far.

Wisconsin did plenty to try and stop the spread. They handed out antlerless tags like candy at a parade to thin the herd. You could get 4 free antlerless tags every day if you wanted to. They made it to where you could gun hunt till the end of March I believe. They also implemented earn a...

Not sure where exactly you're located but the WI DNR does it too. Down by us, they burn the badger ammunition plant every spring and seem to always burn it when it's high fire time. Many people have complained about it but of course the DNR I'd exempt. Also last year Ft McCoy did a controlled...