The annual tradition of heading to the woods to bag a deer begins this weekend with the nine-day gun deer hunting season in Wisconsin.But after last year’s murder of six hunters in the woods of Sawyer County, caution is in the air.Mike Simonson reports there’s disagreement if this is a clash of cultures or trespassing…
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