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Gun deer season outlook

State officials hoping harvest picks up with rut kicking in, early start to gun hunt
Gun deer season outlook
A buck hangs at the edge of a woodlot and watches a group of does and fawns just outside of Medford on a mid-October evening. Wisconsin’s nine-day gun deer hunt starts next weekend, running Nov. 18-26. The muzzleloader hunt Nov. 27-Dec. 6, the statewide antlerless hunt Dec. 7-10 and the archery/crossbow seasons that run through Jan. 7 are options for harvesting a late-fall deer.MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
Gun deer season outlook
A buck hangs at the edge of a woodlot and watches a group of does and fawns just outside of Medford on a mid-October evening. Wisconsin’s nine-day gun deer hunt starts next weekend, running Nov. 18-26. The muzzleloader hunt Nov. 27-Dec. 6, the statewide antlerless hunt Dec. 7-10 and the archery/crossbow seasons that run through Jan. 7 are options for harvesting a late-fall deer.MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS

The flip of the calendar from October to November certainly is meaningful to most of Wisconsin’s white-tailed deer hunters.

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