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The Post-Crescent, Appleton-Fox Cities, Wis.
www.postcrescent.com ■ Monday, November 19, 2012
Hunters start early in age By Patti Zarling Gannett Wisconsin Media
TOWN OF FORESTVILLE — This weekend was the first 10-
year-old Nate Guilette fully participated in gun-deer hunting, and he bagged his first doe. "I hit it right over there," he said proudly on Sunday, pointing to a wooded area at a neighbor's farm. Nate and his sister Emily, 11, spent the weekend hunting with their dad, Kevin. They shot the deer Saturday, but intend to keep hunting throughout Wisconsin's nine-day gun-deer hunting season, which began Saturday. "I just think it's really cool," Nate said. "I like to get out and see the animals and then shoot it, using the big gun. Then you get to eat what you get." The Guilettes joined more than 600,000 licensed hunters taking the field, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. About 25,700 were firsttime hunters, and about 35 percent of hunters were 17 or younger. Under state law, teens can begin hunting alone at age 14, but children at least 10 years old can hunt with an adult. That means some children may begin practicing with guns at a very young age. Kevin said he hunted for years with his dad, going out at about age 10 and hunting himself when he could legally at age 12. "I'm a lifelong hunter and I think it's an important tradition," he said. His kids took a hunters' safety course and participated in mentor hunts to learn proper protocol. "I think if you don't get them interested while they're young, you won't have hunters left," Kevin said.
A hunter makes his way down a eastern Outagamie County road as the state's gun-deer season opened Saturday. Hunters have been reporting greater success around the state than in previous years. RON PAGE/THE POST-CRESCENT
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"It was more deer than my son has ever seen," said Ken Simington of Neenah, a veteran hunter of 33 seasons. His son Nathan has hunted for six years. Simington bagged a buck Saturday in Marathon County and dropped off the hide at Mills Fleet Farm's registration station in Grand Chute on Sunday afternoon. The store had seen steady lines of hunters at its license counter through Friday, and the next day began to see deer in the back of trucks and vans ready to be registered. Given splatters of fresh blood inside the separate gated yard entrance Sunday afternoon, it appeared hunters were not waiting long to register deer in the warm temperatures. Sporting goods clerk Brandon Birling was one of those registering deer for customers at the store. "We've gotten four or five a day in the first two days," he said on Sunday. While that might be a few more than he saw last year at this time, it was "pretty close
— Patti Zarling writes for the Green Bay Press-Gazette; on Twitter @PGPattiZarling.
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Martin said the best way to handle a political discussion depends on your goal. He recommends having a plan before Thanksgiving dinner if you think someone is going to bring up political issues. "Give it some forethought," he said. "If (you) want to preserve the relationship, maybe getting into an argument isn't the best way." Thinking of a phrase ahead of time to excuse yourself or change the subject is a good way to be prepared, he said. Find common ground with your family by watching
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deputies learned that a 17year-old Town of Ashford boy was attempting to back up a vehicle to leave the property. The vehicle traveled through the front of the detached garage, striking several people who
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football, playing a board game or helping in the kitchen. Most likely, you're not going to change anyone's mind, he said, but sometimes people are looking for a fight and "want to get into it." "After the election, it could be gloating in some instances, sour grapes, venting ... others looking for people to commiserate or celebrate with," Martin said. "Think about your goal and wanting to preserve relationship, and that's more important than some of the other discussions." Some families have outlawed politics as a conversation. — Maria Amante writes for the Green Bay Press-Gazette; on Twitter @1MAMANTE.
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Kevin Wallenfang, state Department of Natural Resources big game ecologist, said calls to wildlife managers around the state indicated good numbers of deer were being registered across the state over the weekend. Licenses are available at about 1,400 retailers across the state and at state Department of Natural Resources offices. Call 888-936-7463 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily for information.
Shawn Lemanski, 51, of Green Bay, died from injuries sustained from a fall from his tree stand at 5 p.m. Saturday. He was hunting in the Town of Cassel near Partridge Lane. Marathon County Sheriff's Lt. Fred Goch said Lemanski did not respond to CPR attempts and was pronounced dead at the scene. m Later Saturday night, authorities responded to a call and found Steven Jackson, 51, of Antigo, unresponsive in the woods in the Town of Russell near Gleason in Lincoln County, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department. Town of Russell first responders arrived on the scene at Town Hall Road near Dudley Road, where they took over CPR from an off-duty Everest Metro police officer who was Jackson's hunting companion. Rescue efforts were continued by Merrill Fire Department paramedics, but Jackson, head of the Langlade County Forestry Department, was pronounced dead at 7 p.m. Saturday. Jackson's death is being investigated, but foul play is not suspected.
to the year before," he said. "Of the six I registered, two were pretty decent-size bucks and the rest were pretty big does. Last year we didn't register many big bucks, and the ones we had were later." Birling said hunters told him they didn't expect to see deer this large this early. All hunters commented on the warm temperatures. Fleet Farm didn't sell as many jackets as usual because people didn't need them this year. "It was beautiful weather, but not for hunting," said hunter Mike Fulk of Grand Chute. "You want it cooler than it is today. You don't want a deer hanging if it's 45
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degrees because it will 32 percent were female. spoil." That's high because normally Temperatures reached the women are about 10 perlow 50s over the weekend in cent." the Appleton area. She credits part of the inFulk anticipated going out crease to a "Becoming an during the second weekend if Outdoors-Woman," weekend it gets cooler. class at UW-Stevens Point, Hunters had obtained and local food movements. 614,435 licenses by midnight "There's a movement afoot Friday in Wisconsin, a 2 per- where people want to know cent increase over 2011. Of where their meat comes those, 25,700 took first-time from. More people are gethunting licenses, which were ting interested in hunting benew this year. cause of the quality of the "They're for people meat." — Maureen Wallenfang: who've never hunted deer before or haven't hunted in 920-993-1000, ext. 287, or 10 years," said the DNR's mwallenfang@ postcrescent.com ; Steffes. "Of those licenses, on Twitter @wallenfang
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