![]() The Minong area had good snow cover and a bigger deer herd than last year, according to Anderson. Last year they got two deer with the same number of hunters, Don Anderson said. The Nut-Hut hunters tagged three adult bucks (a 9-pointer, an 8 and a spike), three does and a nub buck, or buck fawn. Their results are representative of the higher deer kill recorded this season in most of the state. This year the camp they call the Nut-Hut included Anderson, his son Dan Anderson as well as Dan Benard, Bill Halverson and Dave Halverson. Navy, he says.īut since then he has enjoyed a long run of uninterrupted seasons, including at the hunting camp he formed on 80 acres near Minong. Those were the years "Uncle Sam had me" and he was serving in the U.S. The outing helped bring back "wonderful memories of hunting with my brothers and dad," Agen said.ĭebbie passed along this heart-lifting note: "Friends have stated (they) haven't seen Dan this happy in a long time." Minong camp sees spike in deer killĭon Anderson, 85, of Cameron has only missed four Wisconsin deer hunting seasons since 1949. "I got to spend more time in the woods with my grandson and get into areas I haven't been in many years." "Without your help, I would not have enjoyed your awesome electric wheelchair," Agen wrote. But Agen's experience proves that isn't the most important part of the hunt.įollowing the season he wrote a letter of thanks to sponsors, donors, hosts and ambassadors of the wheelchair program. He suffered a stroke in 2014 and has limited mobility.īut this deer season, with the help of his wife, Debbie, he checked out the treaded device hosted at A-Z and hunted in the Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit. The group's motto is "Outdoor Access 4 All." It strives to provide recreational opportunities for people with temporary and permanent physical challenges, including wheelchair users, who want to enjoy the great outdoors.Īgen, 64, served in the U.S. It allows people with mobility challenges to use the tracked electric chairs for free. ![]() The wheelchair is one of about two dozen spread out across the state in a program of Access Ability Wisconsin. He checked the wheelchair out from its host site, A-Z Farms in Oregon. Marine veteran who lives in Palmyra, experienced a first this season: He used an all-terrain wheelchair to hunt. Here's a handful from the 2022 Wisconsin gun deer season.Īll-terrain wheelchair provides an opportunity for one hunterĭan Agen, a U.S. The lower license sales are attributed to hunters "aging out" and not being replaced.īut those are numbers. When grouped with sports and patron licenses (which also include gun deer hunting privileges), the drop was to 554,898 this year from 564,440 in 2021. The DNR reported 436,423 gun deer hunting licenses sold this year, down from 445,803 in 2021. In addition, hunters from 21 foreign countries were represented on the license rolls, including from nations as far away as New Zealand and South Africa.Ĭontinuing a long-term trend, the number of gun deer licenses dipped in 2022. Hunters from all 50 states once again purchased licenses to hunt deer in Wisconsin, said Eric Lobner, DNR wildlife director. Smith column: A deer hunt to help fulfill Leopold's legacy The year-over-year deer registrations were higher in all Wisconsin counties but three - Kewaunee, Iowa and Outagamie. The good conditions included snow cover over most of the state, an earlier opener and therefore more rut-related deer activity and, due in part to several consecutive mild winters, a robust deer herd. "In general everything was pointing in the right direction for hunters (this year)," said Jeff Pritzl, DNR deer program specialist. Snowy conditions, earlier opening led to strong deer hunting season in Wisconsin The 2022 kill included 98,397 bucks (up 15% from 2021) and 104,898 antlerless deer (up 14%).Īll four deer management regions showed higher deer registrations, with the highest year-over-year increase in the central forest (up 31%), followed by the northern forest (19%), central farmland (14%) and southern farmland (10%). The stories from the season are now added to the ever-growing volume of our state's largest and most impactful hunting opportunity.įrom a numbers standpoint, hunters registered 203,295 white-tailed deer, an increase of 14% from the previous year and 8% above the five-year average, according to a preliminary report issued Tuesday by the state Department of Natural Resources. The hunt represents another chapter in the rich, 171-year history of regulated deer hunting in the Badger State. Across Wisconsin, cabins have been cleaned out and hunters have returned home from the 2022 nine-day gun deer season.
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