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To enter this week’s drawing one of three pairs of tickets to the Wisconsin Deer & Turkey Expo Call 1-414-297-7554 and leave your name and telephone number. SHOW #509 | 2010 FEB 27 • Put common sense back into hunting big bucks! • Wisconsin Hunters Network launched! • Red Green Look-Alike Contest at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sports Show. • Dan reports on the first annual Wisconsin Hunting Heritage Conference. • Jeff scores on winter bluegills. Results for POLL s508 Should hunters without a bear kill tag be allowed to train dogs during the bear hunting season? YES 10% |  NO 90%  |  MAYBE 0%  |  UNDECIDED 0%  |  OTHER % IMPRESSIONS: 320  |   RESPONSES: 10 |   COMMENTS: 1 Should the  Youth Hunt, Learn to Hunt and Mentored Hunt be consolidated into one New Hunter Opportunity with one set of rules? Background: Are youth hunting opportunities getting too complicated to keep track of? Currently, Wisconsin offers three special hunts for youth and novice hunters: 1. Youth Hunts for spring turkey, waterfowl and deer precede the regular open season and allow hunters ages 12-15 who are Hunter Education graduates to hunt with adult supervision and with no competition from older hunters. 2. Learn To Hunt (LTH) events for most game species may be scheduled at any time during the year. LTH events involve four hours of training, hands-on shooting, and a one- or two-day hunt that pairs a novice hunter of any age with a mentor who has at least five years experience hunting the species in question. Hunter education is not required prior to participating. 3. The Mentored Hunt program allows any novice hunter age 10 or older to hunt any species during the regular season for that species under the close supervision of a licensed adult hunter. Only one weapon is allowed, and the mentor must remain within arm’s reach or the hunter. When you leave a COMMENT you are entered into the drawing for a … ZipVac portable vacuum sealer starter kit, complete with a rechargeable pump, a hand-operated pump and reusable, resealable storage bags. STEVE BARTYLLA outdoor writer and whitetail expert, shares some tips on putting common sense and reality back into deer hunting. CHUCK SMALLEY shares a preview of the upcoming SE Wisconsin Fishing & Hunting Expo. CHARLIE POTTER director of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sports Show, announces show highlights: Kristy Lee Cook concert and Red Green Look-Alike contest. Looking for ice fishing contests? Find them all online. Feb. 26-28: Milwaukee RV Show, State Fair Park. Online Info: Feb. 26-28: Madison Fishing Expo, Alliant Energy Center. Brad Karstaedt and Dan will be there. Online Info: March 3-6: Wisconsin Decoy and Sporting Collectibles Show, Oshkosh Hilton Garden Inn. Room-to-room trading March 3-5, general public show March 6, 8:30-2:30. Contact: Roger Ludwig 920-233-0349 Mar. 5: Red Cedar Chapter of Pheasants Forever 20th anniversary banquet, Dunn County Fish and Game. Lots of nice guns and a multitude of other prizes. Banquet and others Online Info: Contact: Jim Lewis 715-688-9101 Mar. 5-7: Southeast Wisconsin Fishing & Hunting Expo, Olympia Resort, Oconomowoc. Online Info: Mar. 10-14: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sports Show, State Fair Park. Dan Small will present seminars on decoying, rattling and calling trophy whitetails (Sat. Mar. 13, 1 p.m.) and Spring Turkey Hunting Myths & Methods (Sun., Mar. 14, 1 p.m.). Red Green Look-Alike Contest daily in the Family Adventure Pavilion. Online Info: Mar. 12-13: Wisconsin Chapter of Safari Club International Hunter’s Expo. Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel. Free and open to the public. Live auction 1:00 p.m. Sat. Seminars 11: a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sat. Online Info: Contact: 262-437-0097 Mar. 12-14: Icebreaker V, Channel Cats/Fremont Event Center, Fremont, WI. Free sports show and seminars featuring: Daryl Christensen, Steve Worrall, Axl Ehrke, Tony Puccio, Mike Gofron, Chase Parsons and more. Online info: Contact: Joel Kunz, 920-250-0842 Mar. 20: Wild Game Feast, Kenosha Bible Church, 5405 67th St., Kenosha, 2:00-8:00 p.m. Seminars by Dan Small (steelhead fishing & turkey hunting), Jim Tostrud (Lake Geneva, local fishing hotspots), Tracy Breen (big game hunting). Keynote by Tracy Breen: Big Game On a Budget. Dog training, fly-fishing demos, taxidermy display, raffles, silent auction, door prizes. Tickets on sale until Mar. 13: adults – $10, kids 4-11 – $5. Online Info: Contact: Kenosha Bible Church office, 262-652-4507 March 20: Sportsmen’s Banquet, Hartland Faith Baptist Church, 780 Tenney Ave., Hartland, 4-6 p.m. Gary Anderson keynote speaker on turkey calling, knife sharpening by the Sharp Brothers. Door prizes include rifles and a Mathews Mission bow. No charge, but pre-registration is requested. Online Info: Mar. 27: 10th Annual Watertown Area Outdoor Expo & Wild Game Feed, Calvary Baptist Church, 792 Milford St., Watertown, WI. 12-7 p.m. Seminars on sausage making, taxidermy, fly tying, turkey & duck calling, trapping, reloading & more. Online Info: Contact: Mary Sielaff, 920-988-4315 Hunters Network of Wisconsin launched at Wisconsin Hunting Heritage Conference A new program designed to help recruit and retain hunters was unveiled at the Wisconsin Hunting Heritage Conference Feb. 20 in Rothschild, Wisconsin. The Hunters’ Network of Wisconsin (HNW) is dedicated to helping hunting and wildlife conservation organizations recruit and retain new hunters in order to maintain Wisconsin’s hunting heritage, along with the social, environmental and economic benefits it provides. HNW will use online technology to provide new hunters, mentors and youth with resources and information about mentored hunting and provide a forum in which new hunters and their mentors can share their hunting experiences and connect with others who share their interests in hunting. “This is an exciting new program that we hope will help recruit new hunters and mentors,” said WDNR chief warden Randy Stark. HNW is a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The program is funded by the Pittman-Robertson (PR) Wildlife Restoration Act, a federal program to the states for wildlife conservation programs. PR funds are generated by an excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition. Top DNR job remains in governor’s control Gov. Jim Doyle won a major victory on Tuesday when the Assembly failed to override his veto of a bill that would have weakened the governor’s control over the Department of Natural Resources. 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