Several amigos and I attended the Natural Resouces Board meeting April 28 in Green Bay WI where the 2010 gun deer hunting season was revealed. Just as expected the DNR has no clue about real time deer numbers throughout the state and has not listened to the boots on the ground. "Gun deer hunters are not harvesting enough deer" so the DNR has to continue with seasons in addition to the traditional November 9 day season.
They propose a Youth Hunt October 9-10 state wide, Anterless only gun hunt October 14-17 in herd control and CWD units and December 9-12 anterless only hunt state wide.
The DNR wants to sell licenses and blast the heck out of the deer herd, but some of us have had enough.
I have joined 17 other landowners in Herd Control Unit 73D to not hunt the October and December seasons. In addition, we will not allow others to hunt our land, the exception is the Youth Hunt. Currently the group has 2465 acres of prime deer habitat and we expect more to join us before October.
