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Wisconsin’s gun deer hunting season starts today

Stepp also says she’s hopeful all hunters will be able to use the state’s new paperless system for registering deer killed.

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Travel is not recommended in Iowa on Friday afternoon and evening, and southern Wisconsin on Friday night and Saturday morning. Hunters will register by phone or Internet, while a few in-person registration stations will have e-registration services available.

To view the preliminary 2015 gun deer registration numbers, visit www.dnr.wi.gov and search keywords “weekly totals”. And she says better weather this year should make for more hunters. The tag and confirmation number will serve as proof the deer was legally registered, and must accompany the animal until the meat is consumed.

The season runs for nine days, beginning Saturday and ending November 29.

The head of Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is predicting a better deer hunt this year.

All deer harvested during any deer season must be registered by 5 p.m. the day after harvest. The DNR is urging safety and pointing out numerous accidents that happened previous year.

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“We’ve again issued a conservative number of antlerless deer permits, and because of this, many hunters are seeing deer they can’t shoot”.

Minnesota deer harvest up 13 percent from 2014