WI Earn-a-buck
#1
WI Earn-a-buck
Looks like there is a good chance of earn-a-buck requirements for several WI units next year. Some of the counties on watch including Buffalo county were down in antlerless harvest and up in the number of bucks harvested.
http://www.justinwp.com/post.php?id_blg=30
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/news/rbnews/2005/112905co1.htm
http://www.justinwp.com/post.php?id_blg=30
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/news/rbnews/2005/112905co1.htm
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: South Central Wisconsin
Posts: 1,007
RE: WI Earn-a-buck
Thanks for the update. Perhaps I should take another doe. I'm sure we will be in earn-a-buck. 65% buck harvest in my county from what I heard. Not good, but lots of nice bucks taken.
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Central Illinois
Posts: 1,672
RE: WI Earn-a-buck
same here kevin. just guessing i would say the doe to buck ratio in the places i hunt is easily 9 to 1 pretty rediculous. it may even be more than that. hopefully illinois will realize that 90% of people are trophy hunters and if it were EAB than the population would be reduced. instead, they just open up another gun season which is absolutely worthless IMO.
#6
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Marinette, WI
Posts: 2
RE: WI Earn-a-buck
The Wisconsin DNR is nuts! They say we have all these deer and we don't. In the northern part of the state with their stupid Zone T hunts, and from the bear and wolves the deer numbers are way down. Now the DNR wants to threaten us with Earn a Buck next year. Well if they do I am not buying a Wisconsin deer tag, I will go else where and hunt in the U.P.
The deer numbers just are not there any more. This season during the bow and gun season, all I saw was a fawn. Last year I didn't see any deer neither. Also a lot of people I know have not been seeing deer either. When I first moved on my land every night we saw at least 30 deer in our fields, now we hardly see any deer in our fields at night. The DNR is ruining Wisconson deer hunting. No other states have earn a buck or zone T's but our DNR doesn't get it. I think the insurance companies are also involved with this.
The deer numbers just are not there any more. This season during the bow and gun season, all I saw was a fawn. Last year I didn't see any deer neither. Also a lot of people I know have not been seeing deer either. When I first moved on my land every night we saw at least 30 deer in our fields, now we hardly see any deer in our fields at night. The DNR is ruining Wisconson deer hunting. No other states have earn a buck or zone T's but our DNR doesn't get it. I think the insurance companies are also involved with this.
#7
RE: WI Earn-a-buck
They say we have all these deer and we don't.
look at the numbers:
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/news/pdf/2005_9_day_table.pdf
the buck harvest was up in most counties while the antlerless harvest was down. statewide the buck kill was up by 11.7% and the antlerless kill was down 2.84% from last year.
this is unhealthy for the herd if the numbers get too lopsided and the earn-a-buck policy is the tool to make sure that does not happen. personally, I saw between 15-25 deer on average through gun season. My father saw 15 different bucks opening day alone...
look at the numbers:
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/news/pdf/2005_9_day_table.pdf
the buck harvest was up in most counties while the antlerless harvest was down. statewide the buck kill was up by 11.7% and the antlerless kill was down 2.84% from last year.
this is unhealthy for the herd if the numbers get too lopsided and the earn-a-buck policy is the tool to make sure that does not happen. personally, I saw between 15-25 deer on average through gun season. My father saw 15 different bucks opening day alone...