104,178......

boom, boom, boom.

If I had a gun with me on the trapline I could have killed a bunch more deer. They seem to be hanging by the ditches and creeks now with the orange army out in force.

Lots of tags left to fill but no freezer space!

105,807

Roughly 75,000 were checked in during gun season. That number was about 69,000 last year.

I know that I killed 2 fewer deer so the rest of you must be picking up my slack There's still some season left though.

With a 48 hour window to check in deer 75k is a very rough number...IMO

Time/Data will tell...

yup. processors are just now opening up. I expect a fair jump in numbers today.

Interestingly the DNR reported 120,073 deer taken in 2014. Currently 106,230 are now reported in 2015 so far. Unless late archery, muzzleloader and that late antlerless season are insanely successful it does not look like the 2015 deer harvest will match or beat 2014. As I have suspected all year, the 2015 deer harvest will most likely be lower than 2014. I only hope the DNR listens and drops bonus county tags and/or eliminates that late firearms antlerless season that we don't need.

Roughly 20,000 deer were killed after firearms season last year.

We are @ 106,000 right now. Last season the muzzleloader harvest was 11,000 and the late antlerless season accounted for 4,000 more.

106,000 + 11,000 + 4,000 = 121,000. Add in the late archery harvest and I would estimate the total ending up somewhere around 125,000 deer. Not a whole lot higher than last season, but a bit.

Of course that is just an estimate and the total could obviously be higher or lower.

As far as the late antlerless season goes for next year, I would imagine that depends upon how each county fared this year.

106,666. Yikes that's a demon number

106,670 now. That's better.

Safe to assume this number does NOT include check station data?

If you go to check station it will be done online also from what I have seen.

Brew is correct. This number includes check stations which are now just someone else entering the CheckIN data for folks who don't have a computer, don't know about CheckIN, or aren't comfortable doing it themselves.

Thanks, good to know.

So in your opinion, is this a good thing or a bad thing? I took 2 years off hunting, so I'm not caught up.

I think its very good espically for us that process our own and hunt where we live I can hhink about taking care of my deer in warmer weather instead of hanging over night loading back up checking it in and THEN process now I can shoot.check and process makes a huge diff in warm temps

If you mean the online checkin, then yes, of course it is a good thing. The adjustment period was tough for some I am sure but it is the only rational choice today.

The related real-time count is a cool thing but I sure wish we had something more like KY's system: https://app.fw.ky.gov/telecheckreview/

Talk about accountability Although it doesn't appear to give a realtime total anywhere like IN does.

106,945 right now.

Let me make a comment here and it has NOTHING to do about any agenda...................


As you watch the "real time" numbers realize the deer shot are what is in front of a legal license holder when he decides to shoot.............


This has NOTHING to do do with herd health or population. Could it be the "only" deer seen and the "licensed" hunter decided he did not want to go home with an open tag?

People can "blow smoke" on how many deer were killed this year, but what is the age of the deer killed?

If you believe that we have an increasing population......... I have some land in the desert I can sell......


Without a REAL census of deer the only number that can be used is what people killed. that is what Indiana uses today.


Investigate the facts people! Ask how a TRUE census is done..........

Give them another decade and our DNR will be where Kentucky's DNR is now....

Joe,

I think most everybody who looks at this rationally understands that. Our kill numbers are just a survey really. But it's a pretty decent sample size and the best data we have. Unfortunately DNR just doesn't have either the will or maybe the resources to do more. And honestly, I don't think they need to.

Everywhere I hunt, there are still plenty of deer. I hunted Monroe, Parke, Jackson and Washington Counties this year and saw about the same number of deer. The two deer I butchered were big and healthy. Most does had twins. Seems the guys who kill big deer every year are still killing big deer and there's lots of folks getting lucky in the big deer category too.

I'm not worried about our deer herd.

Almost 107,000 right now

John....If I may ask a question.Do you shoot the first buck you see with a rack or do you hold for what may be a Bigger Buck yet to come?

107,000 on the nose.

Brew, of course you can ask. I shoot the first non-fawn buck or doe I see. I like antlers but I am a meat hunter.

The harvest total is just a number. The breakdown of that harvest total will tell the tale....good or bad. Particular attention should be paid to the antlered deer and fawn percentages.

...and no, I won't venture to guess. Based on what I've been hearing for three years now, the harvest numbers should be sliding significantly. But it seems somebody is picking up the slack somewhere.

108,907

108,908

109,270 😁

Numbers continue to exceed where even I thought they would be....we will most likely break the 120K mark again.

110,025

So roughly 3,000 the first weekend of muzzleloader. Although I sure didn't hold up my end of the bargain. Saturday morning's freezing fog sure was cool though. I'll try to do better next weekend if we can keep the rain away.

The overall kill is one thing...it is the Buck kill that tells us where the herd is .....

If what I've seen at the meat locker is any indication, the buck harvest will be way up!

I like most of Kentucky's deer count page, although "All Counties" is missing and could easily be integrated. They are not far off - from a website perspective (my job), a few auto-generated graphs for buck/doe percentages as well can be programmed in a couple hours. Hopefully they will continue to upgrade.

It would be great if Indiana made those raw statistics available for people like me so we could run those numbers and graphs to create useful info quicker than the DNR

So if you had all the info you wanted real time how would that affect your or anyone else's hunting decisions? ...No hunting?
Please explain ....

The guy I worked with who processed my Doe showed me his paperwork on all the deer that he has processed so far this year and 90% or better were Bucks...

Bucks or male antlerless deer???

Their model is based off of the number of Antlered bucks killed

Bucks... This was two weeks ago so just about all bucks will still be carrying their antlers...