Quoted: Thatâ??s just what happened to Scott Craven, head of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on opening day of this yearâ??s deer gun season. At about 5:45 a.m. on Nov. 17, Craven was cruising at 65 mph in Iowa County when he noticed a doe standing on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 151. The deer stepped into his lane, leaving him no time to hit the brakes. His Chevy Silverado hit the animal and sent it hurtling to the shoulder.
â??I may have taken the earliest deer of the entire Wisconsin deer hunt,â? joked Craven, 59, of Oregon, in Dane County. â??I remember the deer head like a hood ornament on an old Packard.â?