Zone 10

[Deitz Dittrich]

I kinda got bummed today. I was checking the WI DNR page to see what they were giving out for antlerless permits this year. I bought 2 last year and was unable to fill them last year. Ihad plently of chances early season( I only bow hunt) but passed waiting on a doe without fawns. So I checked the webpage this year to look at how many they were going to sell this year for zone 10.. to not even see it on the list. Looks like all zones EXCEPT lone 10 and 5 are selling antlerless permits.

Looks like I will be picky again this year.. waiting for a decent rack.

The whole thing confuses me, we have way more deer on our property this year than last!.. but no permits this year.

[fish-n-geek]

Looks like they have 1,525 permits this year, and had 2,391 people apply for permits last year. When I go into the online licensing system, it lets me select a bonus antlerless for unit 10. Where did you look to see if they were available? Maybe I'm missing something.

-rus-

[Deitz Dittrich]

Fish-n- Your looking at old information I believe... I e-mailed the WI dnr the same question I kinda of posted here.. this is thier answer...

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Hello Deitz,

Deer Management Unit (DMU) 10 had a total of 1525 permits available at the start of the Hunter's Choice Drawing, 2054 persons applied for Hunter's Choice in that unit, leaving no permits available to sell as bonus antlerless tags. There were 529 persons who were unsuccessful in the hunter's choice drawing for DMU 10.

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[fish-n-geek]

Odd that it even lets me select a permit there for purchase. I wonder if it would reject it if I actually tried to check out...

I hunt 57A and a bit of 46, so I can at least (hopefully) burn a Tzone tag in 46.

Good luck finding antlers this year!

-rus-

[Cooter]

Where is zone 10 and why so few antlerless permits? Probably was EAB last year and now a guy can't buy a bonus tag. Guess I'm gonna have to check into the zones I hunt, usually theres so many theres leftovers, but I'd hate not to have a couple bonus tags in my pocket.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Zone 10 is Part of burnett county I have a cabin just out of Grantsburg, that is Zone 10.. and no it was not EAB last year.

[Cooter]

Well I have no worries for bonus tags - the three units I hunt have thousands left. Two of them have over 15,000 left and the other 8,000. Watch out skinheads!

[Mr Ed]

Here are the Dnr kill numbers for unit 10 last year

bow 340 antlered, 553 bald 893 total

gun 1229 antlered 2122 bald 2 unkwon ???? 3418 total

1564 2745 2 4311 total numbers

I to was shocked to see no bonus tags

The dnr says that unit 10 has a fall population of 38 deer per square mile on average (2004). the over winter pop. is 24 so 14 deer per square mile get shot on avg. lets say 5 die over the winter at some point that leaves us to have 19 per square come spring. lets say half are bucks and half are doe. so we some how have 9.5 buck and 9.5 doe runing around the woods. we will make it 9 to 10 ratio. So the ten doe have twins in the spring, 20 new little ones. we are now at a fall population in a perfect world none die. we a back to over 38 deer per square mile. so I guess next year we will have a pile of bouns tags as that number will be much higher. 1500+ doe tags that got issued not all will be used some bucks get shot and some do not even shoot a deer and some get the tags just so other people cant get them. I thick about this all the time and see why the state has units in eab. Every tag should be for one buck and one doe, gun and bow. After the state does the fuzzy math on the population, bonus tags can be sold for that unit on a first come first serve basis. The state needs then to watch some how if people are buying these tags just to keep them form other people so "all there deer dont get shot" I know 3 parties that do this. Cant wait till we end up in EAB and they [PoorWordUsage] and moan about it. I belive that unit ten should also be spilt in to 10A farm land and 10B state forest and county lands (i.egov knowells spelling???) and surrounding area.. east side of 87 to grantsburg shooting back down 70 for boundry lines. 10 a the rest in 10b as a rough line. There are not 38 deer per sguare mile back in barrens but if you go out in the farm lands shinning the are hundereds of deer in some of the fields. The state needs to address this unit and others like it. just my 2 cents.

Mr .ED

[Deitz Dittrich]

Very informative post MR Ed..

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[Mr Ed]

deitz,

I think the state is doing the hokey pokey!!!!!!.

if you want some good bowhunting give me a poke always looking for a partner

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or any one else who hunts unit 10 I dont really start hunting till the end of oct.

mr.ed