Hunting is a sport and hunters should train and exercise before they go out, but that often times doesn't happen, said Tracy A. Warsing, M.D., a family medicine doctor with Mayo Clinic Health System in Sparta.
Officials at the Department of Natural Resources are investigating a possible violation of deer hunting rules after seeing a video that was shared on Facebook claiming "torture" of a deer.
Instead of going to a specific location and having a deer tagged by-hand, the registration process has been brought to the digital world. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said it makes the process easier and faster than ever before, but the change is proving to be costly for those former registration destinations.
A group of about 20 vets from around the Midwest got together for Hunts for Heroes.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials blame winter weather for low deer gun hunt registration numbers during the beginning of 2014's harvest.
It's the final day of the gun deer hunting season and plenty of hunters were out Sunday trying to fill their tags before the sun went down. With all those hunters Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources conservation officers were out making sure it's done legally.
On opening day of deer hunting season 2014, three generations of hunters are spread out over 300 acres on the Breska farm in Arcadia. Of course they're out looking for that trophy buck, but it's the time spent together that makes opening weekend so enjoyable for these hunters.
Wisconsin wildlife officials say hunters killed 7 percent fewer deer during the 2013 nine-day gun season than last year.
The state Senate has approved a bipartisan bill that would allow hunters to use crossbows during bow deer season.
A state Senate committee has passed a bill creating an open crossbow hunting season to run concurrently with the archery deer season in Wisconsin.
