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According to outdoor writer Paul Smith, the Deer Kill, License Sales drop to lowest levels in more than 30 years. Gee, I wonder why?? HOw many of you already know the answer to that question. Hunters registered 196,785 deer for the 2016 season, a 1% drop from 2015. DNR sold 598,867 hunting licenses, 2% fewer tan 2015 and the lowest in 40 years. Only the northern forest region reported an increase in deer kill. I have to hand it to Paul Smith, he does a wonderful job in reporting the facts of the deer season. For the nine day season, the DNR reported two non-fatal shooting incidents in Taylor County and one each in Oconto, Ozaukee and Waukesha counties. Right now the Muzzleloader hunts runs through Dec. 7th and a statewide antlerless deer hunt is scheduled Dec. 8th to the 11th and the Bow season runs through Jan. 8th in most of the state.

ANTI-GUN MEDIA BLOWS LOAD EARLY ON PLAN TO BLAME GUN OWNERS!!!  The incident at the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY shows how gun ban extremists were so eager to pin another violent attack on your Right to Bear Arms that they got caught blaming Ohio gun laws for what turned out to be a violent attack by a person armed with a car and sharp-edged tool. Anti-gun groups and the liberal media all attacked the Ohio State gun laws for the violent attack, claim it was the state's laws responsible for the attack. The mainstream media should be ashamed, but we know they won't be. As we know what happened during the elections, the Liberal Media will double down and continue to demand the ban on firearms. (My personnel opinion about the Liberal Media is we should deny them their 1st Amendment Rights if they continue to attack the 2nd Amendment Rights of the people.) And like the NRA said after the news broke, "it's sad when politicians rush to a narrative that fits their own agenda, instead of waiting for the facts." Please get a membership to the many sportsmen clubs where ever you are and join the NRA now.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!   I want to thank all the deer hunters who did a wonderful job being safe in the outdoors. According to the DNR, the season turned out to be a safer one that in years past. Only five hunting-related incidents were reported in the state this gun deer season, and there were NO FATALITIES. That compares to eight incidents in 2015 , including three fatalities. But just think of it this way, there was only five incidents with 575,000 licenses sold, and that's a really safe season. Can you see that many guns in a big city like Chicago or Milwaukee and what those numbers would look like. I guess it shows the real world that sportsmen and women are some of the safest people in this state. Thank you once again for using common sense and good safety practices. IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OUTDOORS.

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ATTENTION ALL HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS!! My land has way to many Coyotes on it and sometimes in the early morning hours you think there was over a few thousand of them howling in the woods. I want them out of the woods and land. Only one deer was taken out of the woods this year and even some of the neighbors reported they didn't see any deer either, because we think it's because of the coyotes. I really would like to treat them as wolves, so I think you get my drift. Several people who had permission to hunt on my land reported also seeing way to many of these critters. So contact me if you want to have some fun killing off these pests, I want my deer back on my land. Thanks!

FISHING in the local rivers has been spotty at times, as I have been seeing fishermen in the EAST and WEST TWIN rivers this past week and in the MANITOWOC river also. Manitowoc river produced a few bites, but there's nothing great about it.

Have some of you noticed that the number of geese are getting a little bit smaller around the northern half of the county, but the fields near Manitowoc are sure full.

THE FRIENDS OF THE BRANCH RIVER WATERSHED, are planning their Winter Luncheon for Dec. 4, 2016 at Gill's Restaurant in Whitelaw starting at 12pm when the doors open and lunch will be served at 12:30pm and the cost is FREE. This is FREE to members and their immediate families. If you are not a member yet, well now is a prefect time to sign up for your membership or give one as a gift to someone you would like to ride along to meetings or events with. Memberships as a Friend costs between $20-$99, River Protector is $100, Champion is $500, and you could also make a General Donation $______ or a Youth Fund Donation $_______.  Send your membership and checks into: Friends of the Branch River (FOBR), P O Box 301, Whitelaw, WI 54247. Dues are tax deductible due to their 501 (C) 3 status.  Any questions you have contact Emily Endter at 920-323-3486 or call Al Klingeison at 920-901-5166.

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE VOTED THIS YEAR FOR YOUR CONSTITUIONAL RIGHTS AND THE FREEDOM SO MANY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR TO PROTECT. A special Thank You from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) to all who elected a president who has pledged to protect our Constitutional Rights and a majority of both houses to Congress that will work to ensure that our individual right to keep and bear arms will be preserved. The work of those who love liberty and our nations hunting and shooting sports traditions is never over. American’s need to remain politically involved to help ensure that the defense of our Second Amendment remains strong and the lawful commerce in firearms is protected at all levels of government. Please do not give up now that the election is over, as it’s never over, the liberals and the other party is always fighting to disarm all Americans and you see it still today with all the protests in the streets started by liberals and the other party. Please remember to pray for all our fighting men and women, police officers and fire fighters across our country. God Bless All of Them!

Read a sign the other day that says the following:  GUNS ARE WELCOME ON THE PREMISES, Please keep all weapons holstered unless need arises. In such case…Judicious Marksmanship is Appreciated.  In other news, Keep your Powder Dry-Democrats Doubled Down on Gun Confiscation. Nancy Pelosi is quoted as saying the following: “If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated.”

NRA ILA Alerts:  Some of the stories that came over the line this week. After attempted robbery over the weekend, police stress self-defense from the Midland Police Dept.; Here is the best news I read all morning, Four Predictions about President Trump’s Supreme Court, and the court may also expand the rights of gun owners beyond its rulings in 2008 and 2010. One judge that Trump has put forward, Diane Sykes, has already issued a decision in favor of gun owners. Judge Sykes was from Wisconsin. She is one very good judge on the 7th Circuit Court that covers Wisconsin.  Pennsylvania hunters will be allowed to use semi-automatic firearms and handguns. GOP’s new muscle may remake Minnesota Capitol agenda, as the liberals and Democrats were ready to dump all kinds of new firearm laws against the owners.

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In Manitowoc County:  Antlered deer  772,    Antlerless Deer  981    for a total of 1,753 deer.   Thank you to all hunters for being so safe in the field so far this year. Please keep it up.


Manitowoc Unit of the Manitowoc County Fish & Game will be meeting on Thursday Dec. 1st at the Manitowoc Gun Club, near Clover, WI.  This meeting has been changed from the Lincoln Park Cabin #1.  The meeting will start at 7pm and there will be a short business meeting and a lunch and refreshments are available.  Remember to sign up for the 2017 membership at this meeting and remember this, where else can you paid $5.00 for a club membership in this world. Jr. Members are half price, so sign up your children and grandkids also. All us older members are looking for some younger people to help take over the club duties real soon please. Please be a part of a club that was founded in 1907 and is recognized as one of the oldest conservation organization in Wisconsin and the Mid-West. The organization works to protect the rights of sporting men and women and promote conservation and related education. Where else can you spend only $5.00 and be part of conservation history.  See you at the meeting.

I would like to say that during this week while driving around the central part of the state, I met and spoke with many hunters and we all agreed that there are deer out there to be killed, but no one today seems to know how to hunt for them like many of us were raised to hunt them in our youth years. Today to many kids think if the deer doesn’t jump out in front of them while they are playing on their phones or other items some of them take out in the field, there isn’t any deer to hunt. Children today need to know how to hunt, not watch all those TV shows where everyone kills a deer every time they walk out into the field. Kids need some parents who know how to hunt or else only grandparents should be allowed to take the kids out to hunt. Of course, these are my opinions, but it’s also the feelings of many others I have spoken with this week. Please be safe and enjoy the rest of this season.  In the Spirit of the Outdoors, Roger

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FORWARD ENDOWMENT will be accepting applications for grants through December 30th. The application asks for details of the requests and related projects. It also asks for background information on the organization and how the project will benefit the general public. To qualify, projects must have a public benefit and be tied to hunting, fishing and conservation. Call Leede Research at 920-683-5940 or email nancy@leede.com.


I would like to take a moment to thank all the hunters who made this year’s opening weekend a safe one again. I have never in my life been able to see so many Bucks and Does crossing the roadways near my land. Going to the dump at 8am I almost got ran over by two bucks flat out running across the road with a doe in toll. Lucky I got new brakes, the bucks made it across the road but the doe turned and ran back into the woods. Than an hour later I was coming back down the same road and this huge buck with 14 points and two drop tines crossed in front of me, so I turned around to get a better look at him as he crossed a plowed field. I met him at the next town road and he ran right next to my car, and before I could get my camera out of the case, he turned and headed back to the woods he came out of. One other question for you hunters, has anyone seen anyone wearing the Hot Blaze Pink hunting clothes??? With the weather to warm up a little bit more this holiday weekend, it should be putting more families into the field, so please remember the rules of safe gun handling. I wish everyone out there good luck and please remember, the life you save, might be yours, so use good judgment and common sense, no deer is worth a human life. Just think, here we have hundreds of thousands of people with firearms and we do not see the amount of killings like they do in neighborhoods of Milwaukee or Chicago. Makes you wonder why cities run by Democrats seem to always want to ban firearms and look how wonderful it’s here in Wisconsin with all the guys with firearms enjoying a sport that families have done for hundreds of years and feed their families with the meat. Good Luck and remember to BE SAFE.


I see that Howard Stern backs Trump’s plan for Interstate Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Law. This law has been NRA’s number one legislative agenda item for several years. Howard Stern used the considerable reach of his Sirius XM platform on Tuesday to voice his support for a national interstate concealed carry reciprocity law. Hopefully once Trump is sworn into office, both houses of Congress and Trump can get it passed.

I can’t understand how so many people can be allowed to skip out of school to protest Trump’s election and the President claims it’s okay to cause disorder in the streets like he did this past week. There was one particularly disturbing incident, a mother brutally shamed her 7 year old son in an online video for voting for Trump in a mock election at his elementary school, insisting he was no longer welcome at home.  All students who walked out of classes to protest, should be given F’s in all classes not attended during school hours, and college professors should have their wages docked for not conducting classes as scheduled. Everyone has a Right to protest, but not during school hours that disrupt normal class hours of others.

With all that being said, I wish all readers a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday shoppers good luck. Please don’t eat too much, and my diet will be placed on hold for one day, please pass the ham. Ha!

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THANK YOU TO ALL THE VOTERS!!!!  It could not have been done without all of your votes to win this past election and protect our Constitutional and Second Amendment Rights. More work needs to be done, so what I am asking of all of you is to please join a sportsmen club in your local area and memberships make a great Christmas gift for the family. Most clubs have individual and family memberships available to everyone. As an example of cost, the Manitowoc Unit of the Fish & Game has a membership for $5.00 a year. Where else in this world can you belong to one of the oldest conservation clubs in Wisconsin? If you want to belong to any other club in the county, go the Manitowoc County Fish & Game website at  www.mantyfg.org and check out the many clubs in the county. No where else in Wisconsin will you be able to find so many clubs so active in the outdoors. Please, this year give a gift that keeps giving year round, a membership to the club or clubs of your liking. If you need help joining a club, contact either Jeff or myself at this website and we will help you. Once again, thank you to all who voted this year.

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NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS NEWS:   11-11-2016 ;  A historic election night for the Second Amendment as we observed how the mainstream media – which had become a little more than a Super PAC for Hillary Clinton  - had already tried to write off Donald Trump and his supporters. The media and Clinton campaign don’t get to write the final chapter to this story, You Did! Thank you for getting and voting for your Constitutional Rights and thank you from all the future gun owners in high schools and grade schools who will be growing up knowing their parents, grandparents and others stood up and fought for their Constitutional Rights. Voters sent a loud and clear message that our gun rights are not for sale. Despite the unprecedented efforts by New York Billionaire Michael Bloomberg and the gun control lobby, the Second Amendment prevailed. The NRA is offering all voters a special Thank You who made the difference in this important election. In light of the elections, we must not forget our Veterans who without them fighting for our rights and freedoms, we would not have a great country like we do now. Their sacrifices, after all, contributed to the blessings of liberty that allows even highly contested elections like the one America just experienced to resolve in a peaceful ad orderly fashion. God Bless All Military, Policemen, Firemen and the millions of others who work so hard to keep America Safe, Strong and Free!!!!! Thank you from all of us.

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FISHING NEWS:  Alewife levels are at an all-time low in Lake Michigan and that was the report by the U.S. Geological Survey. Researchers found a record low biomass of alewife in Lake Michigan in 2016. It’ the lowest in the history of the lake. The surveys have been done in the same areas since 1973 and the record keeping has been spot on. The recent decline in alewife abundance the Lake Michigan Committee to seek a stocking reduction. With that being said, state agencies in Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana all agreed to reduce stocking of chinook, since the species is the primary predator of alewife. But in Wisconsin,  the DNR decided to maintain its current level of chinook stocking and reduce lake trout by 58% and brown trout by 50%.  In the waters off of Port Washington , 10 tows produced ZERO alewife. The drags were performed in water as deep as 420 feet and as shallow as 60 feet. But when the research boat returned back to the Port Washington harbor, alewives were visible in the water near the dock. If you want to learn more about our Lake Michigan fisheries, join the NEWGLSF club who meets at the City Limits. Look up the club on the web, and join now.

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Just think, the 2016 Deer Hunting season is about to start on Nov. 19th and it will be a 9 day season. State Wildlife officials are enthusiastic about the prospects for the 2016 season.  Something else you should know, as it’s in its fifth season, the first-time buyer license continues to provide an opportunity to explore Wis’s outdoors and experience its hunting traditions at a reduced price.. Something else you should know, thanks to hunters who work hard to learn the rules and regulations and practice safe hunting each year, Wis. Remains one of the safest places in the world to hunt deer. ATVs and UTVs are a good tool for hunters-be sure to check out some helpful tips and stay safe.

BREAKING NEWS: Sportsmen Defeat Montana Trapping Ban. Montana’s Initiative 177 was soundly rejected by voters in the Gem State on Nov. 8th ballot. Had it passed, it would of banned all trapping on all public lands , including city and county parks, municipal golf courses and more. The only states that have enacted a ban on trapping are Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts and Washington. These laws have been pushed by the Anti-Hunting groups in America. Had it not been for many pro-trapping groups, this bill would of passed and the Sportsmen’s Alliance was responsible for the information and help in defending the trapping rights of the sportsmen.

ATTENTION ALL SPORTSMEN AND WOMEN:  COW FARTS CAN NOW BE REGULATED IN CALIFORNIA, as Gov. Jerry Brown kept his assault on climate change Monday, pushing through a law meant to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from dairy farms and landfills.

DEER HUNT WISCONSIN 2016: tune in on the show on Nov. Nov. 9th @ 9 pm, Nov. 10th @ 9am & 1:30pm, Nov. 11th  @ 5pm, Nov. 12th @ 5pm and Nov. 13th @ 9:30am. Dan Small and Mark LaBarbera are the producers of the show. Tune in and learn something.

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COUNTY OUTDOOR NEWS: With deer hunting coming up, here are some issues you need to hear and read. Deer tags must be attached to the deer at all times unless you are right there with it. This means also, once you register your deer, the tag must remain on the deer. If you hang up your deer on a pole, the deer tag must be attached to the animal.  Question came up about quartering your deer to haul it out of the woods, tag it and haul the head part out first, then walk back in and get the second half of your animal. If you should happen to hit a deer with your car, call the DNR Info line at 608-267-7691 and once they give you a number, you are all set to go. Let’s all make this a super safe deer hunting season. Please remember the four rules of safe gun handling.

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CDAC MEETING DATE:  The Manitowoc County CDAC committee will be meeting on January 11th at 6pm at the Viking Bow & Gun Club. CDAC is the group of citizens who decide how many deer will be killed in Manitowoc County. Here is a fair warning to all of you who think the DNR are the ones who pick how many deer or types of deer you can kill, it’s the CDAC committee that makes all the decisions. Rumors in the community right now are pointing to an all doe season, no bucks will be allowed to be shot in this county. Look what happened in Waupaca county. Here is where you can have an input into the meeting and into the committee choices.

Remember, BUCK FEVER is this coming Thursday, Nov. 9th and it will be either a good one knowing our Constitutional Rights will be protected, or a sad one knowing we will have to fight for our rights if an Anti-Gun gets into office. Get out and VOTE on Tuesday.