HORICON MANAGED GOOSE HUNT 
Regulations* for the 1960 Hunt 
U. 5S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife 

* and 
Wisconsin Conservation Department 
(a) The open season for hunting geese on the Horicon National Wildlife 
shall be 4-hour before sunrise to 2:00 p.m. The season length or bag lim 
excessive. 
Refuge shall begin on October 7 at 12 noon. Daily shooting hours 
it or both may be curtailed by emergency order if the kill becomes 
(b) Hunting on the managed hunting unit on the Horicon National Wildlife Refu 
f Sport Fisheries and Wildlife ge is permitted under permit only as authorized by the Bureau 
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(c) Hunting on such refuge shall be done only under the following conditions: 
The Horicon National Wildlife Refuge is divided into 2 units as follows: 
1. MANAGED HUNTING UNIT. _The managed hunting unit varies in width, but is not mork than 440 yards wide as marked by single 
strand of wire, or as posted by the Wisconsin Conservation Department. A single row of blinds spaced approximately 200 yards apart 
shall be provided by the Wisconsin Conservation Department to accommodate not more than three hunters per blind, 
2. REFUGE UNIT. The refuge unit shall include all land in the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge not designated above as the 
managed hunting unit. Within this unit, it shall be unlawful to hunt in any manner at any time. 
3. RESERVATIONS. Reservations for hunting in the managed hunting unit may be obtained under the following conditions: 
(a) Reservation requests by mail only on official application forms will be accepted at the Wisconsin Conservation Department, 
Madison. —s requests must be postmarked no later than September 4. Applications which are postmarked after the above date will 
be rejected. 
(b) Only one official application form per person may be submitted and anyone found submitting more than one (1) application for 
a reservation will have all applications rejected. 
(c) Selections of mailed application forms will be made by random drawing from all eligible applications submitted. 
(d) Reservations are not transferable and the person whose name appears on the reservation must present the reservation in person 
at the designated check station, (along with his hunting license and migratory bird hunting stamp). A reservation will entitle the 
applicant to bring not more than two (2) guests with him. (Guests must be present when he registers for his blind.) 
(e) ly one reservation by mail per applicant may be obtained. Hunters are not limited in the number of permits as guests of a 
reservation holder, however, hunters in the waiting line shall be allowed only three (3) permits and may be permitted to hunt thereafter 
only if no other hunters are waiting in line. 
(f) All reservations for any one day will be valid only up to one-half (14) hour before the daily shooting time. 
4. MANAGED HUNTING UNIT PROHIBITIONS. Within the managed hunting unit it shall be unlawful to: 
(a) Enter without first having obtained the necessary permit (arm band) in person at one of the checking stations. Such permit 
shall be valid for only one day. 
(b) Leave the immediate vicinity of the managed hunting unit without first surrendering the permit in person at the checking 
station where it was obtained. The immediate vicinity of the managed hunting unit is defined as the special area in which the 
2 p.m. closing hour is in effect as shown in the current Waterfowl Regulations Pamphlet. 
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5. Blinds will be assigned in numerical sequence at the time reservations are drawn. Reservation confirmations will contain 
assigned blind number, Vacant blinds will be issued on a first come - first served basis, 
6, Hunters without reservations must form a line to apply for blinds, and trailers and busses will not be permitted in the line. 
Automobiles must be occupied at all times by persons without reservations desiring to register for blinds. 
7. Arm bands to hunt on the unit are non-transferable and no permittee shall occupy or shoot from any other than his assigned blind. 
8. A service fee of three dollars per blind per trip shall be paid by each party. A party consists of from 1 to 3 hunters. 
9, Hunters must keep their guns unloaded and enclosed in a carrying case at all times except while occupying assigned blinds. 
10. Dogs are not allowed on the managed hunting unit. 
11. No person shall leawe any refuse in any blind or in the managed hunting unit, and immediately upon terminating his hunting trip 
shall deposit all refuse in containers provided at managed hunting unit access points. 
12. When finished hunting, each hunter must surrender, in person, his numbered arm band at the checking station through which he 
entered, and there submit for examination such game as he may have bagged, not later than 3:30 p.m. 
13. Hunters must park at designated access points and driving to and from blinds is prohibited. 
* Supplemental to Migratory Waterfowl Regulations - 1960 Pub. no, 712 - 60 Wisconsin Conservation Commission. 
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