Steve - not everyone is going to agree with hunting and I wanted to include an option for them.

I don't agree with smoking but do not think it should be outlawed. Outlawing hunting wasn't even part of the article or the discussion in Madison about this issue. Not like you need an accurate poll on Patch but now this one is just pointless with a screwball option like that.

@sarah - "not everyone is going to agree with hunting and I wanted to include an option for them." and "Gun hunting should be OUTLAWED" is that option? How about "I don't agree with hunting". The people who don't agree with hunting will not have an opinion on this hunt because they have never hunted. They wouldn't understand the logistics of this time period or what an early hunt does to the overall picture of hunting.

Sorry Sarah... can't agree on that one. There is an option for those that don't like hunting, and that is not to participate in the poll. No part of the article involved the question of the legitimacy of hunting. None of the above may also suffice.

If you were doing a packers bears poll, you wouldn't include a football should be banned option. If you were doing a Romney Obama poll, you wouldn't include should elections be banned.

This seems more a case of writer bias working its way into the article.

Steve- She has to get her anti gun agenda out there somehow.

some will agree with you and some won't either way it's always been a part of life since the invention of firearms. I like the idea to suspend the early season because I think more deer will be taken as a result and it's the best way to reduce a deer population that is just too large. BTW I also think the "outlawed" question should have been stated as " I dont agree or like hunting". The way it's phrased opens up a debate that really isn't related to the article. Just my opinions. :)

Another option? Interesting how that option was completely irrelevant to the article. Was it rather an opinion of the writer? Why else put that in there?

I agree. Its not even a valid option. Why would they put that choice on there?

Just because we have a modern society with chemically processed foods at stores doesn't mean we should outlaw the freedom to acquire fresh meat from the wilds as our ancestors have done since the dawn of humankind. Animals are going to die one way or another so as long as people eat meat. In addition way too many things are unconstitutionally outlawed in what is supposed to be the freest nation on Earth. Those who believe in banning things should probably go live in the hundreds of other nations that were not founded as Constitutional Republics with principles of maximum freedom. All that said I've never hunted a day in my life, and have no interest to do so. However I know the incremental way the government has eaten away at our rights for centuries. You take away one persons right to do something and eventually the government will get to your rights. Everyone must respect each others freedoms so we can all keep our preferred way of life intact.

I am in full agreeance that gun hunting should be outlawed.

You conveniently left out all the pro business action and focus on jobs and named things that were also on the list.

Why this is included in an article about hunting? There are other things to get done that do not allocate a lot of time. Hunting for one creates jobs and is a huge part of the Wisconsin economy.

I don't think abstinence only is part of the bill, I believe that abstinense must be taught along with other methods. Correct me if I am wrong.

To Steve Ebbie, It is clear that you are a narrow minded liberal with tunnel vision, & have a lack of understanding of all things you mentioned. 1. Voter I.D., You need some form of a picture I.D./ a legal D.L. from another state with your picture, a S.S. card, not just a #, and a utility bill/ something similar to prove your address to even get a Drivers license.The same/ a legal D.L. to apply, and receive any form of credit, purchase alcohol, cigarettes get a library card, Purchase a weapon for a felony check, to rent a post office box, to receive a job, to cash a check, to get a mortgage, in most cases to receive medical care, and even test drive an automobile. Illegitimate Voter fraud steals elections, plain and simple.

To Steve Ebbie 2. Act 10 fixes have been reluctantly reported by Liberal news papers in Milwaukee Madison, and other major news media outlets throughout the state to be working, and even acknowledged to have saved many communities, school districts $10's of millions, and even the state from fiscal ruin. These same media groups have acknowledged that more teacher, and government jobs were saved than were lost, or many more would have been lost through forced budget cuts. Unlike the Fed. states cannot print their own money.

To Steve Ebbie Act 10 also put a stop to teacher union members (public tax payer employees) being forced to participate in a single only 1 option health care system, opening the door for competitive health care provider Ins. Co's. at almost 1/2 the cost the Union owned Ins. Co. was charging. This has now proven to save communities throughout the state close to a $ hundred million $ in the 1st year alone. The Union Ins. Co. has since been forced to cut their rates close to in 1/2 with keeping the same coverage. It is now estimated that the state taxpayers as a whole over past decade has overpaid this union close to a $ billion $. My personal opinion as a 26 year tax payer in this state, is that our state attorney general should start a Class action law suit against this union to recoup this money. Seeing the writing on the wall with what Gov. Walker was proposing in fixing the states perennial budget deficits approaching 3 $ billion $ If elected.

To Steve Ebbie The teachers unions pushed 3 school districts in the state, Kenosha, Elkhorn, and MPS Milwaukee Public school's to rush through binding contracts that left these three Districts once Act 10 passed with only a few alternatives. Either cut programs, employees, or raise property taxes, which the latter was prohibited by Act 10. Therefore these 3 Districts were the only 3 in the state which were bound until the end of these contracts to choose the 1st two alternatives. And when they approached the union members to renegotiate these contracts, they refused resulting in many layoffs, firings,and program cuts. Act 10 also put restrictions on unions rights to negotiate ridiculous rules that allowed them to double dip on their pay through retiring at 55, with full pay, benefits, and quite often being allowed to return to the same job making the same salary as before they retired. WI prison guards could call in sick with pay on their scheduled shift, then show up on the next shift and were required to be payed at overtime 1,1/2 for that shift.These are provable facts.

To Steve Ebbie 3.There has been a Fed. law prohibiting the use of Tax payer dollars from being used to pay for Abortions for quite some time now, but that law has been continually circumvented through organizations such as planned parenthood who applies and gets billions in federal $ for so called other forms of women's health care. But yet this allows them PL. PHD., to divert millions in private donations to perform abortions on demand. Sorry Pal, but I, and am sure the majority of the population don't agree with the use of our hard earned tax dollars being used to commit murder of the innocence in the name of pro choice. That fetus has no choice period!

To Steve Ebbie 4. There are still equal pay enforcement laws prohibiting sexual, and racial discrimination that have been in effect for years on the Fed. level. All this repeal did was limit multiple nuisance lawsuits, and absorbent amounts of penalty's that juries can burden small businesses with. 5. Conceal carry, come on man It has been proven time & time again through state by state crime stats that every state that has passed concealed carry has seen a drop in violent crime. Who were most of these crimes committed by & against? Common repeat offenders, usually against weak unsuspecting women, and elderly. All states with the exception of IL. currently allow some form of C.C. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States>;

Steve,

I am an avid hunter/fisherman, small business owner and lifelong resident of the state.

DW,

Wow you really have lots of time on your hands.

To Steve Ebbie, It is clear that you are a narrow minded liberal with tunnel vision, & have a lack of understanding of all things you mentioned.

You must have read the book "how to make friends and influence people"

It just seems to me that when we are bleeding jobs in the state the last thing we should worry about is whether or not someone gun hunts in October.

I also don't think that any of the laws passed that I mentioned created one job, unless of course you count the lawyers.

Sparky,
They have limited sex education to abstinence only.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_edwatch/2012/04/walker_signs_abstinence-only_sex_ed_bill.html

►Steve,

I am an avid hunter/fisherman, small business owner and lifelong resident of the state◄

So why ignore reality then? Oh right, to be liberal is to ignore all reality

Wow... the bias was so obvious that even both sides of the isle saw it. Impressive.

the early hunt makes deer more "skidish" so when the later hunt happens, it becomes more difficult to hunt those areas. If the plan is to reduce the overall population, it is easier to do during a single hunting season.

I agree. Blast all of them that you want. They will make more.

Uh, no. I like my deer, and I don't want idiots shooting my horses or bullets flying through my windows. Not all year round, and certainly not everywhere.

NUT-TARI, How`s `bout 24/7?

Try the "Deer Camp Diet". Eat only during the gun season and watch the weight melt away. New, improved and even more effective this year.

Yeah but then you'd just go to Subway or Buffalo Wild Wings. LOL

Dave, a great deal of venison is donated to food pantries by generous hunters and sometimes by municipalities culling deer where public hunting is banned.

As for the geese, I would agree, they need to be culled, too, and could provide a source of food for the poor. It is my understanding – someone correct me if I'm wrong – that while deer are protected only by state regulations governing the time, place and method they may be taken as game animals, Canada geese – while they are state-regulated waterfowl game birds – are also protected by the federal Migratory Bird Act. Because they have become local nuisances, state and local agencies have been allowed to harass the adult birds (as with dogs) but not to destroy them, but in some cases to destroy their eggs and nests. But the Act prevents the adults being culled by hunting or trapping, at least around here, as far as I know. Anyone with better information, I would appreciate knowing more.

Please explain, why the supermarket? In my opinion, if you are against deer hunting you should be a vegetarian.

Ben

As much as I and others enjoy hunting, the f-word does not help the case of those on the internet who might otherwise agree while refraining from use of the word.

Or hit by somebody who don't know no grammar. What the heck are you trying to say, big ben?