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Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing #7515579
03/03/22 07:02 AM
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Has anyone been notified of success yet? The drawing is typically Mid-February, I'm sitting on 9 points which gives me about a 75% chance of drawing a tag in Zone A

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515580
03/03/22 07:04 AM
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It's been out for a couple weeks.

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: BernieB.] #7515581
03/03/22 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by BernieB.
It's been out for a couple weeks.

I was afraid you would say that... 10 years will hopefully seal the deal next year. mad

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515592
03/03/22 07:27 AM
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DANG! I thought 8 was the magic number


2021 goals....make time to trap
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Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515601
03/03/22 07:44 AM
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Zone A has been running 10-11 points for some time now. Good luck next year. The way they shuffled the zones might help a little.

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515615
03/03/22 07:57 AM
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Here's a snapshot from 2020-
[Linked Image]

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515737
03/03/22 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Eagleye
Here's a snapshot from 2020-
[Linked Image]


That all changed in 2021, now there are zones A-F.

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515775
03/03/22 10:31 AM
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My neighbor drew on 10 and is signing it over to my grandson.

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515801
03/03/22 10:45 AM
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I would seem that in a year that baitsitters go first that it takes one more point than in the years that hounds go first.

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515887
03/03/22 12:13 PM
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Makes me glad I live in a state where you get 3 free black bear tags with your resident license. No drawing. Limit is 3 per year and the season is open 365 days per year.

Eat your hearts out L-48 bear hunters!

Pete

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7515923
03/03/22 12:45 PM
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Can't compare Alaska to Wisconsin, it's not fair to Alaska. Wisconsin has a higher black bear population density in bear habitat than anywhere else in the world. Hunters in Wisconsin harvested 4,306 black bears in 2020, how many were harvested in Alaska? Wisconsin also has 3x the Boone & Crockett entries as Alaska. Takes a little longer to draw a tag, but that reduces competition and ensures you're not hunting shoulder to shoulder with someone else.

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: tlguy] #7516134
03/03/22 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by tlguy
Can't compare Alaska to Wisconsin, it's not fair to Alaska. Wisconsin has a higher black bear population density in bear habitat than anywhere else in the world. Hunters in Wisconsin harvested 4,306 black bears in 2020, how many were harvested in Alaska? Wisconsin also has 3x the Boone & Crockett entries as Alaska. Takes a little longer to draw a tag, but that reduces competition and ensures you're not hunting shoulder to shoulder with someone else.


If you think you’re not shoulder to shoulder in Wi, you haven’t hunted bear on public land recently!

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7516148
03/03/22 04:25 PM
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Imagine if the DNR gave out more tags like some people want!

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: tlguy] #7516165
03/03/22 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by tlguy
Imagine if the DNR gave out more tags like some people want!



The wi DNR has the bear season figured out to a science. It’s a money maker for them. Season opens when they start to shut down. If they really wanted to reduce bear numbers, they’d just open the season a week earlier…no need to give out more tags. Bears hammer baits all summer and stop mere days before season starts!

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7516200
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Why would they want to reduce the population? Each zone surpassed its harvest quota by between 16 and 27% in 2020. Seems like hunters are doing just fine harvesting bears with success rates in 61-63% range in zones A B and D.

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7516243
03/03/22 05:28 PM
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I’m talking about zone c

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7516332
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Wi DNR is a joke took my 9 cat points away because I didn't apply for a couple years...Thieves

Re: Wisconsin Bear Tag Drawing [Re: Eagleye] #7516347
03/03/22 07:23 PM
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A few years probably, since that's what's in state statutes. Good news is you can vote on changing that in the spring hearings, that's one of the questions this year.

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