NEW RICHMOND, Wis — When he was getting his deer stands ready for hunting season back in August, Scott McDermott from New Richmond, Wisc., one day found them tipped over and damaged.

Someone cut the stilts in half.

“This was eight feet high. Now it’s four feet,” McDermott said.

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And on the roof, a threat: “The hunters will be hunted.”

How did that make McDermott feel?

“Pissed off,” he said.

And McDermott wouldn’t be the last victim. Over the last couple months, deer stands have been vandalized across Dunn County WI, then…