this real time harvest counter is a nice addition to the DNR site.

17068 deer and counting down this season

http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/8367.htm

I took a nice doe on Sunday. That seems like an awful small piece of the 17,068 take thus far.

17,254....

20,722 as of Nov 2. Nice! Those Ohio guys seem to be getting a lot of big bucks this year. Posting on Deer and Deer Hunting on Facebook all the time. Pretty big boys over there.

https://www.facebook.com/deerhuntingmag/?fref=nf

28289 today. Should go up by a few ten thousand by next Monday.

And those are just the ones that were actually checked in!!!

45000 plus now

65400 and counting

72143 after I added mine

75,304

Roughly 44,000 have been checked in since opening of firearm. Don't know how many of those are bow kills.

In the Saturday through Wednesday period last year, about 39,000 gun kills were checked in.

If all other numbers stay about the same as last year, we should see an additional 42,000 deer killed.

So my projection is 117,500, a 2% decline.

Of course I could be wrong

I know the numbers don't lie, but it sure seems like a bunch of deer are getting killed. All the planets aligned for opening weekend. All the crops were out, and we had very good weather for people to be out and stay after it. Ive had several people tell me about all the processors being booked full, and not taking any more deer. Maybe its because everybody I know but me has killed a deer!!!! Predicting a bigger kill than last year.

It does appear that the total numbers will be around what they were last season.

Good weather for the first three days of firearm season definitely had hunters in the woods.

91000+ today

in the last 6 days of gun season last year around 16,000 deer were killed.

In Muzzleloader almost 11,000.

Late antlerless was 4,000.

Archery, let's say 8,000 for the rest of the season.

91,000 + 16,000 + 11,000 + 4,000 + 8,000 = 130,000.

Could be a banner year.

My freezer is full. Sightings were up this year. I know this means nothing as I am a data point of ONE.

My oldest son got his first deer, I got a buck with a bow in October, and also helped my friend get his first deer (in the first 2 minutes of firearms season). Lots of memories made. I am calling it a successful season, now onto trapping!

I haven't taken a deer yet this year but my sightings are up this year as well...

And some said that there was no useful value in having a real time data collection system that online check in offers ...

Just 24 hr's later...


93,636

Would that include the Doe I took this morning?

Checked in at 11:32AM...

It's supposedly real time. So yes. And congrats.

93,699. 33 checked in since 1:14 pm

Awesome and thank you!

You guys are all over this more than an 18 yr old on a new Taylor Swift video .... all that matters is what the final count is..... at least we wont have to wait till summer to find out ....

I like Taylor Swift. Wish I was 18

93,794. Almost 100 more since 1:45

It passes time when the freezer is full.


And aggravates the bejeezers out off some.


Win win

94,954 at 8:30.

That's roughly 1,300 since 1:15 yesterday. Last year 1,452 were checked in the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

Jeff, here's Taylor's new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg

Happy Thanksgiving!

95,921 at 12:41.

96,140

I'd guess there's some interesting number crunching that could take place with all of the data...

-What times, where, hunting pressure by county, temps, moon phase, etc.

Yes I'm planning a diabolical assault next year during deer season once I analyze all the data! Seriously, I use Kentucky telecheck data frequently when planning hunts on WMAs. At least you can see harvest numbers from prior years and get some ideas on harvest and population trends. Not sure what detail we get with the Hoosier version, but it looks like you can only see your own game or the total.

Do road kills and all get checked in on this if they are called in just curious

Probably not since they would be considered an accident and not harvested...

97,261 !

Over a thousand checked more in since 2PM today!

Nope.

97354

100992....and counting

101,209

101,000 + 6,000 + 11,000 + 4,000 + 6,000 = 128,000

Will we end up around our 11 year average of 128,000 deer?

Or....will we end up above that average or will the numbers drop?

The next few weeks should be very interesting and I look forward to seeing the breakdown of the data.

Add another thousand since this morning

102827

102,800 + 2,400 + 11,000 + 4,000 + 6,000 = 126,200

Almost another 1000 taken so far...

103478

218 more in the last 47 minutes 😁