5 shooting incidents, 1 fatality in Wisconsin deer hunt

By ROBERT IMRIE , Associated Press

WAUSAU, Wis. – Five hunters were shot, one of them fatally, during the opening weekend of Wisconsin’s gun deer season, and the deer kill was down substantially from a year ago.

A 48-year-old Appleton man, Ronald Verhagen, died after a member of his hunting party shot him in the chest during a deer drive in Outagamie County on Sunday morning, said Tim Lawhern, safety administrator for the Department of Natural Resources.

The nine-day hunt that opened Saturday attracted some 630,000 hunters.

According to preliminary counts, hunters registered 133,828 deer following the first two days of shooting, down nearly 38,000 deer, or 22 percent, from a year ago, the DNR said.  Full Story!

5 shooting incidents, 1 fatality in Wisconsin deer hunt.