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This is from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This one really makes him look bad. I'll continue looking for more though, so we can all make an informed decision on this guy. I love the part where hunters are put in tree stands and the deer are let out of their pens to be shot. The hunter even comments that there wasn't much sport involved and that it was more like shooting than hunting. All of this on 86 acres with 120 deer on it. Put 120 deer on 86 acres and I think my little sister could get one pretty easily, or for that matter, my wife who has barely even fired a gun.

Almond - For more than a decade, hunters from as far away as New York and the Deep South have come to Stan Hall's game preserve in Portage County to shoot big bucks.

Perched in tree stands, hunters have their pick of deer that Hall releases from pens for the shoot.

A longtime hunter, Jim Alford of Houma, La., came to Hall's farm, Buckhorn Flats, in October 2002 with his sons. The visit produced three large bucks.

"It's a real nice place," Alford recalled, though he added: "There is really not a lot of sport in it. It was the first time I had done it. It's more like shooting than hunting."

Now Hall's business could be ending. After the discovery of chronic wasting disease on his farm in September 2002, state officials fear it could spread from his fenced, 82-acre compound to the surrounding countryside.

So far, six of his deer have tested positive for the fatal disease, according to the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. One was shot as recently as Dec. 4.

No sign of the disease has been found in wild deer in Portage County. But as the numbers mount on Hall's farm, the agriculture department has banned him from selling live deer and wants to kill all of his 120 deer, as state law permits.

Hall is challenging the state's order, signed on July 29, that would have dispatched a government team to methodically shoot the deer, lop off their heads and remove brain tissue to learn whether they carried the disease.

Hall and his attorney declined to comment for this article. But in previous interviews and in discussions with officials involved in his case, Hall has criticized the government's testing methods and said he is being made a scapegoat.