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Big Game => Whitetail Deer => Topic started by: mudbrook on December 15, 2007, 11:57:49 AM

Title: Earn-a-buck cheating not widespread, WDNR reports
Post by: mudbrook on December 15, 2007, 11:57:49 AM

Earn-a-buck cheating not widespread, WDNR reports

By Kevin Naze
Press-Gazette correspondent

News that at least two deer registration stations in southern Wisconsin were shut down by the Department of Natural Resources has Internet message boards catering to hunters buzzing with rumors.

State officials acknowledge that some hunters cheat the earn-a-buck system by registering either road-killed deer or an antlerless deer that someone else already tagged when station officials failed to cut an ear — one of the requirements in earn-a-buck units to discourage such illegal activity.
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Title: Re: Earn-a-buck cheating not widespread, WDNR reports
Post by: Rancid Crabtree on December 16, 2007, 09:31:26 PM

I think it is more wide spread than they would like to think.