Hunters registered 191,550 deer in the 2014 Wisconsin gun deer season, a 15% decrease from 2013 and the lowest kill in more than 30 years, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by the Department of Natural Resources. The 2014 harvest included 90,336 bucks (down 8% from 2013) and 101,214 antlerless deer (down 21%). The nine-day gun deer season ran Nov. 22 to Nov. 30.

This year's deer kill was the lowest since 1982, when hunters registered 182,715 deer. State wildlife officials attributed the reduced harvest to a lower deer population in northern Wisconsin, poor weather in parts of the state on opening weekend and regulations that restricted the kill of antlerless deer. All or part of 19 counties were "buck only" this fall, an effort to protect female deer and increase numbers in future years.

The number of license sales also was down. The DNR reported sales of 608,711 gun deer licenses, a drop of 24,891 (4%) from 2013. The license sales total was the lowest since 1976.

On the positive side, the season was the safest on record with three non-fatal shooting incidents. The previous low was five incidents (three non-fatal and two fatal) in 2004.

Glenn Grothman says 20 percent of federal budget is borrowed

Grothman, elected to succeed retiring Republican Tom Petri, threw out a statistic to make his point: "Just the fact that right now we’re borrowing 20% of our budget does show there are going to be some big differences between the president and us on government spending."

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In the latest accounting, the borrowing figure amounts to 13.8 percent, the lowest since just before the recession.

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The Treasury and White House announced the results on Oct. 15, 2014, six weeks before Grothman’s appearance on "UpFront."

The subsequent CBO report came out Nov. 10, 2014, about three weeks before Grothman made the claim.