If they extend the season earlier I will no longer waste $160.00 on an Archery tag, will not be buying bows, scent, food and gas in WI. I will hunt in another state.
CWD cannot be controled stop wasting the money on it. Look at what a great job the Government has doen with Mexican swine flu ya H1N1 it is work wide and will get worse before it gets better.
Stop the WDNR they are out of control and clueless.

Why not have it 2 weeks longer after Thanksgiving and not before? It would make the bowhunters happy which they should have a right to hunt before the gun hunters do as was normal in the past. Also, after Thanksgiving there is more of a likelihood of snow which is better to see deer and track and other people in the woods along with it being colder most likely. Before Thanksgiving is basically stupid for so many reasons, but after would be better and make a lot more sense. Also, not to get off subject, but to have 10 year olds with their parents even with one gun between them a few feet apart supposedly is dangerous. I don't know of too many 10 year olds, let alone 12 year olds, who can handle a shotgun or rifle safely. All the DNR wants is more money since their budget under Gov. Doyle has been cut way down. This longer season is just another gimmick to get hunters and past hunters like me back again so the DNR gets more money. It is not about the joy of hunting any longer, but simply MONEY!

I quit hunting because of 2nd hand smoke from my buddies, I think wisconsin should outlaw smoking in the wilderness due to cancer and forest fires.

Maybe adding a couple of weekend gun hunts before and after the normal gun deer season, as they have done in the past. I for one will not hunt any more than I normally do if its extended during week days. Thats the best part of the current gun hunt most people have a bunch of days off that week anyway.

The DNR HAS NEVER EFFECTIVELY PROMULGATED REGULATIONS THAT APPROPRIATELY MANAGES THE DEER HERD - PERIOD! Add to that the fact that fewer people who weren't raised in a hunting tradition are going to get involved in deer hunting (sort of like family farms), and the general lazy, video game-focused, comfort-based attitude of kids, and one can see why deer the deer harvest is down, and will continue to be, no matter how many 10 year-olds, blind (and blonde) hunters that are ultimately encouraged to trek into the woods.

In addition, WE WILL NEVER ERADICATE CWD, and have now spent millions to give the illusion that we are at least doing something, however fruitless it might actually be (sort of like the DARE program, but not yet even beginning to approach the waste of time and money that that debacle ate up). It must work through the deer population naturally, and the deer must adapt to it. If you think otherwise, google the introduction of rabbits into Australia and read about all the ineffective methods that humans attempted to control that burgeoning, destructive population!

I think you have to be patient with the DNR. CWD is going to cause the DNR to make changes to try and control the spread of the disease and control the deer herd. Do they have all the answers? Does anyone have a sure fire way of controling the issue? The answer is no. It is an ugly thing that could impact the economy greatly in Wisconsin. If it continues to grow hunters will begin to shy away from hunting deer in Wisconsin and the money that is paid to hunt will disappear. So changes in the way we hunt will have to be made...some good changes and some bad changes I'm sure...but to leave it alone will be determental to the health of the herd and our economy.

Bad idea all the way around. Too many factors would be affected. If they are so concerned about getting rid of deer population, how about issuing free licenses to those of us who have paid year after year.

What we need are autonomous robot hunters.

Also, for the rest of the state, there is a 2 year moratorium on the earn a buck.
What this story doesn't tell you, is that the bow season could run in conjunction with the gun deer season. Meaning that there will be camoflauged hunters in the woods with blaze orange hunters.
People will be shot!

They didn't scrap the earn a buck!!!!!!! It's still in the Southern part of the state in all of the CWD area's which is still a large portion. Whatever they come up with, I wish they would stick to it and quit changing it every year. It's getting old. This new proposed system of having it start two weeks before Thanksgiving is really going to upset the bowhunters. That is prime time for bowhunting.

Not a bad thought