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An estimated 218,548 hunters managed to har-
Datten Brush/reaDers' Photo showcase 2020 vest 73,542 deer with a gun. These are record-set-

ting numbers in both categories. Figure 8 and
Figure 9 show harvest by sex and day, along with
harvest and participation from years past.
The holiday antlerless gun season saw an ex-
pansion of season dates, running from Dec. 18
through Dec. 31, 2020. Harvest during this ex-
panded season increased to 6,786 deer, almost
doubling last year’s total. Figure 10 shows hol-
iday antlerless gun season harvest totals from
2015 to the present.
The youth deer gun season ran for three days
from Oct. 16 through Oct. 18, 2020 and resulted
in the harvest of 4,465 deer. Antlered harvest
made up 57 percent of the total.
Figure 9: Gun Season Harvest and Hunter
Numbers
80 250

70
200
60
Harvest (in thousands) 50 150 Hunters (in thousands)

40
100
30
20
50
10
0 0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Year

Figure 10: Holiday Antlerless Gun Season
Harvest

8
7 6
Deer Harvested (in thousands) 5 4 3

1 2
0
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Season

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