Wisconsin Ag Connection - Safe Start So Far For Gun-Deer Season

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Safe Start So Far For Gun-Deer Season
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 11/25/2014

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has released some information on the opening weekend of the state's nine-day gun deer season. The agency says excitement was high throughout the state as 90,281 deer were registered during the hunt's first two days.

Hunters saw a variety of conditions on Saturday, ranging from what many described as ideal, with snow cover and comfortable temperatures, to fog and rain. Many hunters who headed into the woods Sunday experienced fog and precipitation across a large portion of the state, and many wildlife managers and wardens in the field described Sunday as being very quiet.

Of the deer registered over the weekend, nearly 1,500 were shot by those who were selected to participate in the pilot program for an electronic registration system that will be available to all hunters in 2015. As expected, the statewide deer kill is down most significantly in the far northern counties.

License sales office reported 589,830 gun deer licenses sold by midnight last Friday. Though deer license and tag sales will continue through the hunting seasons.

And so far it has been a safe hunt in the woods. There were no hunting-related incidents recorded during the first two days, making it only the second time in the past ten years that there were no hunting incidents investigated during opening weekend of the deer gun season.

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