In Taylor County, hunters have already registered 833 crossbow bucks and 375 bow bucks for a total of 1,208, which easily surpasses last year’s total of 971 that included the late archery season.
DEER DRIVE WITH BOW REGISTRATION
The DNR has posted archery and crossbow registration numbers through Nov. To be positive in both, to have the 7.5% percent increase in gun season and 30% in early archery, right there, I’d say is a great season already.” A lot of semi-moderate hunters became more fixed hunters. We had a lot more people out in the woods. “We saw that trend really across northern Wisconsin. “Our early archery season stats came out and, in Taylor County, archery bucks pre-gun season was up 30.4%, which is very significant,” he added. The big indicator for me was the 7.5% on buck kills. “Taylor County went higher than most places, although I was not surprised by that with our tag allotment,” Spiegel said Tuesday.
The antlerless hike was expected after bonus antlerless authorizations in the county went up to 8,350 this year from 5,600 a year ago on private land and up to 1,000 this year from 675 in 2019.Īccording to Josh Spiegel, the DNR’s wildlife biologist for Taylor, Rusk and Sawyer counties, the success of gun hunters was just an extension of what had been happening in the county already this fall.
The 2019 season was marred by two snowstorms that slowed down hunting significantly in the last five days of the season. The 2020 total of 3,217 deer compares to last year’s total of 2,543. 30 deadline, up 7.5% from last year’s figure of 1,277, and 1,844 antlerless deer, up 45.7% from last year’s total of 1,266. With a sizable increase in antlerless harvest authorizations this year in Taylor County came the expected increase in antlerless harvest, which was the primary driving force in a 26.5% overall increase over last year in the county during the nine-day gun deer season.Īccording to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Taylor County hunters registered 1,373 antlered bucks through the Nov.
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