of his sons. ….

of his sons.

“It doesn’t bother me that I didn’t see any deer,” Michler said as the hunters had lunch together at the Hammel Town Hall on opening day. “It’s all fun just getting out in the woods.”

Michler, an Air Force veteran and lifelong Medford resident, was hunting on opening day with his grandson Mike.

“I was engine chief on engines for the dock system I was at,” Michler said of his Air Force days. “So I worked on B29s right down to C54s. Lots of do-little bombers and B25s. I liked B26 engine a lot better because they didn’t have as many oil leaks.”

Michler said he earned accolades for helping design a special wrench that was able to better get inside the engines to gets nuts and gaskets in place to stop those oil leaks. He also said he’s enjoyed a lot of success deer hunting as he once had a run of 15 years that he got a buck each year with the bow.

“I had lots of years with two bucks. I had the four years where I shot three, the last one I shot three bucks in the same drive, a 9- an 8- and a 4-pointer,” recalled Michler, who said he’s been a deer hunter since 1947.

Cravings prepared the box lunches that were enjoyed by the hunting group on the first Saturday. The costs were covered by donations from the various sportsman’s organizations, along with the Klossner-Dietzler VFW Ladies Auxiliary.

Wisconsin sets aside nine days in early October each year for the gun hunt for disabled hunters. The annual process starts with landowners enrolling their property for the hunts with the Department of Natural Resources by June 1. After the land is enrolled, the property list is made public and interested hunters who possess a valid Class A, C, D or long-term Class B shoot from a stationary vehicle disability hunting permit have until Sept. 1 to contact sponsoring landowners and set up potential October hunts.

More information on the deer hunts for the disabled can be found on the DNR’s website, dnr.wisconsin.gov. Search key words “disabled deer hunt.”