Stupid Wisconsin rules hunters like.

[thusby]

I miss registering deer at the bar.
Necessary, no. Fun, yes!
Grab a beer and wander the parade of dead deer in trucks, pretty damn awesome.

 

[thusby]

Head to toe blaze orange, get some!

 

[thomas89]

The brain of a western mountain hunter couldn’t comprehend the blaze orange pumpkin suits!

 

[coleslaw]

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).

110%. Good memories of going to the gas station or the bars with my dad and seeing all the deer. To me, the right of passage as a 12-year-old (the 1990's) was taking my first deer (a doe) to the check station and being super proud I was no longer on the sidelines. Even getting my back tag was as good and as important as getting my DL. I was finally one of the guys and not just an observer, and everybody was aware of that.

I know the stations will never come back, but I miss the community aspect it brought to deer hunting.

Deer hunting has just become somewhat impersonal in my view. Deer camps are fewer and farther between, with even fewer making visits to view each other's meat poles. Like a good Gary Paulsen book, it's an era long gone.

 

[slatebuilder]

Pennsylvania had the big back tags until 2008……some guys still put their little printed off plastic green license in a sleeve on their back. Those back tags were hand written on the back side.