Stupid Wisconsin rules hunters like.

[schmalts]

For some reason social media groups for Wisconsin deer hunting are bringing up the topic of bringing back Registration stations and even worse the dreaded back tag. I can't tell you how refreshing it was to hunt Western states to get away from that backtag crap, poking holes in your clothes to hang it, bow hunting and having it make noise rubbing on the tree. These guys just want to live in the past and the biggest reason most say they want it back because of memories of the old days at bars and gas stations. Then the registration stations where people proudly show off their forky like everyone is impressed including non hunters who are actually appalled at the sight. Wearing blaze orange everywhere you go for 10 days..... having the head hang out of the trunk or bed so nonhunters have to see it, and the mandatory "make sure your blaze orange is on the top of everything in the vehicle so everyone knows you're on your way to deer camp" cheesy. So question is, did we look like a bunch of goofs to western states? I just can't stomach the idea of bringing back the backtag, especially if hunting private land. The registration stations are an annoyance as you have to load up the deer, drive to town , then to wherever. I process my own, so i usually have everything boned out and bagged up as I'm driving my Honda Civic most times and really don't drive the truck the 6 hour round trip unless I have things to haul. I just like freedom and easy hunting my own property for deer. I don't need memories of the old days... what's next, reverse the recent rule where we can actually quarter the deer instead of drag it half a mile and have a heart attack? I just don't get it. Rant over

 

[buckbull]

I doubt that stuff ever comes back. That crap was a pain in the a$$. We have guys wanting to resurrect check stations. I thought it was cool as a kid to see all the deer. Could care less what others kill these days. Social media has plenty of grip and grins if i want to see them. I take a deer to the processor every couple years but most deer never leave my property.

 

[Nunjagottam]

Lived in the UP for a while. Although the hunting in UP was terrible I was glad we didn't have to do the dumb shit WI required.

 

[schmalts]

Lived in the UP for a while. Although the hunting in UP was terrible I was glad we didn't have to do the dumb shit WI required.

I actually wasn't aware you didn't have to do that in Mi

 

[schmalts]

I doubt that stuff ever comes back. That crap was a pain in the a$$. We have guys wanting to resurrect check stations. I thought it was cool as a kid to see all the deer. Could care less what others kill these days. Social media has plenty of grip and grins if i want to see them. I take a deer to the processor every couple years but most deer never leave my property.

What scares me is most comments seem to like the stupid crap

 

[thomas89]

actually quarter the deer instead of drag it half a mile and have a heart attack? I just don't get it. Rant over

And this rule is even dumb as you can only legally leave the entrails in the woods. Packing out everything still. Stupid.

As for registration stations and backtags…I’m good with them being gone. Their app is a bit clunky for tagging but it is functionally adequate.

There are a lot the DNR needs to fix before rotating back to backtags and check stations.

 

[schmalts]

And this rule is even dumb as you can only legally leave the entrails in the woods. Packing out everything still. Stupid.

As for registration stations and backtags…I’m good with them being gone. Their app is a bit clunky for tagging but it is functionally adequate.

There are a lot the DNR needs to fix before rotating back to backtags and check stations.

I think they might have just revised that, because it was stupid like they made the rules without ever looking at other states. I'm just going off what a buddy told me that recently shot a deer in ash swamp and left carcass in the swamp. It makes sense since they don't want anyone transiting carcasses due to CWD

 

[seeth07]

Although a bit inconvenient to me now, the check stations were an instrumental part of the social and economic impact that was the deer season. I cherish those memories growing up and I was just talking to my brother the other week in our duck blind how his girls dont get to experience the same deer hunt that we grew up with. The best part of opening day was the hours in the evening spent looking at everyone's buck and hearing the stories of misses, first deer or old man Joe's 100th buck (of course it was always a spiker).

Practically i think those days are gone but if I had a personal vote, id go yes to bringing them back even knowing it would be inconvienant for my own self (i shoot my deer here now days behind my own house).

As far as backtags go, im guessing they went away is because research showed that very few people actually got caught poaching while wearing a backtag. The concept is great if poachers are actually wearing them but most that are wont be. Not sure why they would bring that back.

 

[SFC B]

I'm glad I started hunting WI after the back tags....always seemed weird and cumbersome. In IN we can only quarter once we have checked the deer in online. I am on an IN specific forum and am trying to move guys toward it, especially the folks in hilly Southern IN. Makes it MUCH easier to move the deer (especially if you are alone) and leaves the scraps for the coyotes and other critters instead of dumping a carcass around people.

 

[thomas89]

I think they might have just revised that

Sir, I stand corrected.

"Non-edible parts may be left in the field after quartering"

Love it. Now to get a hold of a warden to discuss what constitutes "non-edible".