....and feral hogs.

Here you get 5 basic tags with your license. 3 doe - 2 buck. Can purchase 4 doe tags for $20, then get an extra one with them for free for crop damage control. Plus get 2 more buck tags for $5 each($10) with minimum 12 inch inside spread or at least 4 points on one side.
So get all my tags for $30. My license is free due to disabled veteran. Not a bad deal. I usually fill about 3 freezers and then (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) folks in need.
Yes, that is alot of deer to harvest. Landowners want them gone. And there are always folks that need the meat.
Places I hunt will not allow you back if you don't shoot enough. Right now I have over 11 deer on just 30 acres of land. We are covered up with them.
Im not a headhunter, but usually get a nice one. I like my freezers full.

Sarge

That and the coons. I normally keep about 500-800 pounds out at all times during the season. Gotta out do the area competition. If you don't, your just sitting and watching squirrels, coons and crows.

Sarge

I remember when baiting was Ok'd in WI State wide. Roughly 25 years ago or so.
Everyone started dumping corn all over the landscape.

Its effect were all negative on deer hunting.

The deer had so much feed they never got hungry during the day, they'd get up after dark, gorge on the corn piles and laid down till the next night.
Much less deer movement during the day.
We saw evidence of this in the snow by all the traffic from the previous night.


It was about the same time deer stands became boarded up mini living rooms that you could sit in watch the game and live comfortably all while waiting for a deer to show.