There are significantly fewer oranges during Wisconsin’s annual gun deer hunt, but 553,652 license buyers were still able to bring home more venison than a year ago.
However, for the second year in a row – the first time in over 40 years – the Flaming Orange Army failed to record 100,000 whitetails on its opening weekend. DNR deer program specialist Jeff Pritzl said part of the reason is a change in hunting intensity, with about half of the state’s deer hunters being in the woods in the months before the November opening of gun season.
As of 2023, hunting deer kill a smidge across Wisconsin
