While placing a treestand in the dark for a morning sit, you have to hope that once your reach 15-20 feet, that God will bless you at sunrise with shooting lanes, because you can’t cut anything. Tree damage rules: You can’t use screw-in treesteps on Wisconsin public land, and you can’t trim shooting lanes - not one live twig. Of course, even though you placed the stand, it’s first-come first-serve on any given day. 64 is the dividing line), then you can leave no more than two portable treestands in place overnight per county. ![]() Treestand use rules: On Wisconsin public land, you can’t leave a treestand in place overnight if you hunt the southern two thirds of the state. ![]() Opening morning of Wisconsin firearm deer season on a large tract of public land can sound like a battle scene from an old war movie. Hunting pressure: With over-the-counter bow and gun tags to residents and nonresidents alike, the number of people in the Wisconsin woods can be shocking. In fact, I’ve often said to buddies who don’t have the chance like me to travel to prime hunting destinations: “With a bow, it’s harder to tag a whitetail fawn on public land in Wisconsin than it is to arrow a 140-class buck on many managed private properties in the Midwest.” Disagree with me if you must, but 40 years of bowhunting public land in Wisconsin has taught me it’s true. Yes, I have access to some decent private property in the Midwest, but I also spend a good amount of time battling crowds on heavily hunted public land. The content is authentic, it’s not over-produced and I can relate to their challenges. ![]() Click here for a discussion about my top THP episode from this past deer season a link is provided to watch the hunt, too. If you follow my writing on Bowhunting World’s website, I’ve made it clear that my favorite hunting program is The Hunting Public ( THP).
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