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Title: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: suburbanirma on February 15, 2017, 10:17:00 PM
Received word from the Wisconsin DNR this evening that I drew a Wisconsin Unit B bear harvest tag for this fall. Took me 11 years to get it. Looking forward to scouting, baiting, setting up stands and checking trail cams. That's work but also lots of fun.
Hope to have a story for TradArchers' World magazine in the Fall or Winter issue. Wish me luck!
Title: Re: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: rraming on February 15, 2017, 10:25:00 PM
Sweet, they running dogs in your area this year?
Title: Re: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: Orion on February 15, 2017, 10:28:00 PM
Congrats, Tom. I hope to draw next year.

Dog hunters do get the first week this year.
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Post by: Leland on February 15, 2017, 10:29:00 PM
That's great,good luck and have a safe hunt this fall.
Leland
Title: Re: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: ChuckC on February 15, 2017, 10:46:00 PM
Awesome news there.  I think i am soon at that same point, but not this year. Hope you have lots of fun.
Title: Re: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: carbonflyr on February 16, 2017, 12:19:00 AM
:thumbsup:  good luck!
Title: Re: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: Terry Lightle on February 16, 2017, 06:16:00 AM
Congrats,now make us proud!
Terry
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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on February 16, 2017, 06:58:00 AM
Congrats Tom.  Good luck.  Seems to be a very healthy population of bears these days.
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Post by: lt-m-grow on February 16, 2017, 12:13:00 PM
And the adventure begins...Good luck. It will be awesome.

As a suggestion, as you think about the story line for your mag, might I prod you tell the story beginning to end, though you are likely way ahead of me there.

I offer this because Wisconsin has some unique ways of bear hunting and others may enjoy the challenges and nuances it offers.  

I had a great reminder of that last year when I gave my tag away (another WI nuance) last year to an 11 year old girl.  Her and her dad both did their first bear hunter together - soup to nuts.  She was successful and killed the "families" first bear with her dad by her side.  Along the road, I got regular updates of baiting, trail pics etc. and the process infected the whole extended family.  

And don't worry too much about the dogs going first.  They run the dogs all summer anyway, and just cause they cannot shoot them doesn't mean the bears aren't hunted early and often.  I wish they would change that but it is what it is - yet another nuance.
Title: Re: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: Mike Vines on February 16, 2017, 12:20:00 PM
Awesome Tom, looking forward to reading about it in your Magazine.
Title: Re: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: on February 16, 2017, 01:37:00 PM
Congrats on your draw, and good luck on your hunt!

Bisch
Title: Re: Yahoo! I drew a Wisconsin bear tag.
Post by: NBK on February 16, 2017, 04:43:00 PM
Aim middle of the middle!  That front shoulder is nothing but trouble.  ;)
Awesome you got a tag and no doubt you'll connect. See ya in a couple of days.