Wisconsin’s Biggest Bucks
12-6-2012
On Wisconsin Outdoors continues to receive and post many stories and photos from the Wisconsin bowhunting and firearms seasons. Link with “Deer Hunting” on this site to take it all in and make sure to scroll back a few pages to see some of the big bucks and personal stories we’ve posted since the rut. We’re in production for the print version of the January-February issue of On Wisconsin Outdoors, (each issue is also posted online on our homepage) where we will also be showcasing the stories of two of Wisconsin’s biggest bucks.
How about a sneak peek?
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Avid bowhunter Adam Fuss of Winneconne scored big November 13 when hunting in southwest Columbia County. The 11- point buck has a preliminary score of 182 and the ethical hunter has a great story to tell. We’re telling it in the January-February print issue of On Wisconsin Outdoors along with this one: Rob Gramoll of Milwaukee shook off the no-deer blues during opening weekend of the gun season big time. His 15 point buck post-Thanksgiving is expected to be the new Juneau County record and is likely to be among the best 10 typical bucks ever taken in Wisconsin. The monster grossed 202-1/8 before preliminary deductions placed the score at 184-5/8. We’ll post both stories right here online too. Click on ‘Ellis Blogs’ for another look at each buck’.
We’ll have both stories for you in print at 700 Wisconsin locations and we will also post them online with many more photos of these true once-in-a-lifetime bucks. I have already interviewed both Adam and Rob.
Hunters planning to participate in the statewide antlerless hunt, Dec. 6 (today) through Dec. 9, are reminded that only the harvest of antlerless deer is permitted by both gun and archery hunters statewide. The harvest of antlered deer by archery hunters in deer management units (DMUs) 7, 29B, 34, 35, 36, & 39 is not authorized during the statewide December 6-9 antlerless hunt. OWO will have the entire media release posted today under “Deer Hunting”.
Hunting buddy Scott Heitman and I will be heading out Thursday on request of a friend who manages QDM property to try and tag a couple of his does. They shoot monster bucks or does. We can use the venison and, not to hex us, but I am looking forward to butchering again. It’s also a part of the hunt I enjoy and it means appetizing, clean meat is opened to prepare before the meal. Try it…it will keep your wife in it and a fan of the hunt if she expects something looking like it was professionally prepared.
Connect with “Outdoor News” on this site regularly for information on deer hunting and many other activities sent daily to On Wisconsin Outdoors by DNR Fish & Game personnel, Warden Wires and many other areas. We still have our fishing guide “nuts” working open water and submitting reports under “Inland Fishing” or “Fishing Reports”. Where they can’t, they’re transitioning to “Ice Fishing ”. Try that link too.
“On the Trapline with Arnie Groehler” is now a weekly OWO feature column online under “Trapping”. We also post Arnie’s column and photos under “Deer Hunting” so that people don’t miss his work and insight. The Board member for the Wisconsin Trapping Association knows what he’s doing outside, and he brings a lot more to our table in addition to just trapping expertise. Try his adventures.
Read Robb Manning’s’ concealed carry column online weekly under “Firearms”. Robb also produces an excellent column and knows what he’s talking about in an area where many of us need education and direction. On a related matter I don’t know if you listened to Bob Costas and too many others blame firearms for murder last week, but law-abiding gun owners had better be mentally ready and organized to draw the line in the sand when government and Braveheart-like Noble elites come looking for them. No. The answer is no, under any circumstances. No. The second amendment is not outdated and more necessary today than 240 years ago. Did you listen to the media firestorm when a “live shotgun shell” (referred to as a bullet) was found recently on an airliner seat? You would have thought near-tragedy hovered on each flight. One more question: Have you ever reached in a jacket pocket…maybe at church or anywhere else… and felt the familiar touch of a live shotgun shell, (“bullets” for you media boneheads) that had maybe fallen through a hole in the lining? It’s as dangerous as finding a flashlight battery. But spread the panic anyway. You do it so well.
Look for the Darrell Pendergrass and John Luthens columns under “Deer Hunting” this week. Darrell’s mood turns from giddy to sour after nine days on a less than active deer stand near Washburn. John turns research on the tribe’s intent to night hunt for deer off the ceded territories into memories of football in the snow when growing up in the far north in a column called, “The Ceded Driveway”.
Look under “Trips Elsewhere" or “Upland Game” for a Mike Yurk column on his recent trip to South Dakota targeting pheasants. Bird numbers are up and hunting opportunities remain through December but rain makes it tough for Mike and crew, whose column is sponsored by Warner’s Dock. They get their roosters but Mother Nature is not nice.
Next week, we will post photos and the story from our Winnebago duck hunting trip led by Roger Ludwig. I know that after a few hours we had 9 ducks down and recovered, most of which were the hardiest divers still remaining in the north but also with some of the biggest greenheads I’d ever seen. Right now though, mark March 6 through 9 on your calendars for the Wisconsin Decoy and Collectibles Show at the Hilton Garden Inn in Oshkosh. We’ll have complete details with our story next week and in the future, but for more information contact Ludwig at RogFuzz@charter.net or 920-233-0349.
We will also post a journey or two that I have taken under “Dick’s Trips” today. Thanks for connecting with On Wisconsin Outdoors.
Shoot Straight. And send us your “stuff” at ellis@onwisconsinoutdoors.com.
Dick Ellis