The Latest: Hunting age created 'embarrassing' perception

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on a state Department of Natural Resources review of the 2017 gun deer hunt (all times local):

1:40 p.m.

A member of the state Department of Natural Resources board says the lack of a minimum hunting age in Wisconsin has created an embarrassing perception nationally that babies are hunting deer.

Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill just ahead of the nine-day gun season last month that eliminated the 10-year-old minimum age for participating in a mentored hunt, essentially eliminating the state's minimum hunting age. The DNR sold 1,814 mentored hunt licenses heading into the nine-day season to children nine years old or younger, including 10 licenses to children under a year.