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It was one of those coming-of-age moments I’ll never forget. A gangly teenager, I was clueless on how to hunt deer, yet I was determined to figured it out. Dad walked me to the woods the week before the season and showed me a stump. “Sit here and look that way,” he said while pointing to a logging trail that wound through some thick regrowth. “Don’t move a muscle,” he continued. “When you look around, just move your eyes. Don’t move your head — not even just a little bit.” When opening morning arrived, temperatures had fallen into the teens. Determined to get a deer, I pulled on two layers of long underwear, two pair of wool socks, a sweatshirt, a flannel shirt and a ragged pair of blue jeans.…
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An estimated 79,615 deer hunters who shot bucks or does in Michigan during 2023 failed to report their kills, according to the DNR’s 2023 Deer Harvest Report compiled by DNR statistician Brain Frawley. The annual mail survey of a random sample of deer hunters came up with a harvest estimate of 347,008 for all 2023 seasons. Only 267,393 kills were reported; a difference of 30%. Although an average of 30% of 2023 deer kills went unreported in the state, according to DNR estimates, the nonreporting rate was higher for the northern Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula. The estimated deer harvest in the northern LP was 34% higher than hunter reports and figures from the DNR’s annual hunter survey show that the UP deer harvest last fall was 41% higher.…
Authorities in Wisconsin have concluded their investigation on a despicable poaching case that involved more than 100 deer killed. It was determined the poaching took place from spring 2023 to July 2024. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt said the investigation started when a resident called the department. “In mid-July we got a call basically of a strong stench or strong odor coming from garbage at the neighbor’s house,” Waldschmidt said. “When the deputy went to investigate, he found in the garbage multiple heads of bucks in velvet in the garbage rotting. That is what was causing the smell.” Waldschmidt contacted the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the two agencies collaborated in the investigation. After hundreds of combined hours of investigation, a 36-year-old female from Campbellsport, Wis. and…
If you’ve hunted long enough, you’ve seen that telltale game-over signal. That tail puffed out, held high, exposing the white “flag,” a deer might stand around, alert, momentarily before fleeing to parts unknown. Many researchers have examined this behavior over the years, trying to learn exactly why deer exhibit this behavior. One team was led by T.M. Caro, Leslie Lombardo, A.W. Goldizen and Marcella Kelly in the mid 1990s. The researchers reported these findings in “Tail-Flagging and other antipredator signals in white-tailed deer: new data and synthesis,” published in Behavioral Ecology (Vol 6, Issue 4): “Costs of tail-flagging were apparently low and no data supported the idea that flagging serves as a warning signal to conspecifics, in either this or in other studies,” the group reported. “Flagging deer fled at…
