2424 deer harvested so far since Sept 15

Wow I think you might be over your limit Lol

12,210 deer checked in so far this year

Well I've only killed 2 of those! LOL

The only one I've seen was walking out the trail on the opposite side of the woods from me. Way too far for a bow shot. LOL

16448 checked in

How is this compared to last season at this time... anyway of finding out ??

Last year same date

19410 As of Sunday, November 1, 2015 .

18,044 @ 8 pm

22,463 ,


23,819 at 1:44pm this date last year


Opening morning of last years gun season we were at 30,356

68,436 checked in so far

Where do you guys look for last years total numbers on a daily basis?

77,252 now.....2000 MORE than this date last year

75,106 last year on the 18 the at 9 am


Here ya go, stinger


http://hunt-indiana.com/thread/54597/date-deer-harvest-numbers

That's no good

My take is HPR is making a difference !!!If it is just another weapon to Harvest a deer that would have been taken with something else It should level off later on if not your going to see a big jump when The Late Doe gun is over I'm saying 130, 000 for grand total If they (HPR) don't effect harvest other than another choice Same or little less than last year

At this point in the firearms season (when comparing last years firearms season harvest data versus this firearms seasons rough data), the harvest numbers are within 1,000 deer of one another.

I think the warmer weather has helped in higher numbers of deer taken and more hunters staying in the woods longer...

Also, the Firearm Season start date started on the 12th of this year (which is the earliest it can start) vs say the 18th (which is the latest it can start) so we started during the middle of the rut vs. end of the rut...

The buck I took on Sunday was chasing a Doe, but I bet if it had started the 18th, then it might be less likely that he wouldn't have been chasing her...

weather has been great!

Kill seems to be up if my processor being FULL and seeing way more deer than usual is any indication.

I think I'm seeing about the same kill as prior years. Gun season came in so early that maybe the numbers jumped quickly. I believe it will level off but may be a few more than past....just my guess.

Throbak, are your Amish neighbors rocking the HPR'S or are they still rolling old school?

They have HPR most down here Did anyway heard last shots AFTER 6:00 last night really dark

85,270

Thanks!

92,302.

96269

99,052

104,100

Compare that number to this time last season ......

105,814 the Monday after gun season last year.

1,714 difference... Pretty much par... Guess with the allowance of rifles, it wasn't all doom and gloom as predicted...

I'm still not sold. The rifles had to make some difference, we just have no idea how much difference. Even with rifles, we're down...not up.

We've had two consecutive years of great weather the entire 16 day firearm season....with virtually zero crops in the fields....and both years were peak rut timing. Next year, the firearms season comes in a week later. It will be interesting to see those results following the two back to back years we've had.

I hunted good private ground the last 12 days of archery season and my deer sightings were less than 1/3rd of the 2014 total....a little more than 1/3rd the 2015 total. Some of that was due to the heat I'm sure. How much, I don't know? Yes, I'm concerned...and yes, I hope I'm wrong.

This isn't a post directed at you, or rifles. But you won't be able to make that statement until the end of next 2017-2018 season. Rifles are and will continue to be the "great equalizer" in Indiana now. You can't tell me that the inclusion of rifles this year, didn't make the fewer deer we currently have more accessible to a portion of the hunting population. That will initially give us a false sense of having a bigger population than we really have. Even WITH the rifles, we are lower than we were last year without them. It will be interesting to see.

It is impossible to draw any conclusion at this point. Even when we get all the data we can in Indiana we are speculating. There are just too many variables we don't correct for. But it is pretty easy to make the argument that our deer herd is stable based on overall harvest for the past few years. The stated DNR goals have been met. I speculate that any serious hunter will kill the number of deer s/he wants regardless of tool used. I am sure a few more deer are killed that might not have been killed if the hunter was forced to use a 100 yard gun instead of a 150 yard gun but I bet that is not many. The buck I killed with my rifle would have been dead with my scoped shotgun with sabots either way.

I understand that with the first year of rifles being used you cannot draw a conclusion... My post for the most part was more a jab at the people who said our deer are gonna be slaughter to oblivion and such on opening day...

I cannot speak for anyone else's hunting experience this season but I only went out two days (opening weekend) and saw quite a bit of deer activity on Saturday and only saw three Sunday which two were bucks and I took the mature buck at around 8:30 am...

I have not hunted since and will not for the rest of the year... I had half a deer from last year and got this big buck so I am set... My buddy's wife said she has not seen very many deer this year at their property and I took the doe I have left from last year from there...

First it was the crossbows going to decimate the herd, now rifles. Smh

Only thing changing is the tool used, outcome still the same. Whether by longbow, recurve compound muzzleloader shotgun pistol or rifle....dead deer is a dead deer. Harvest numbers will be as they always have. Sky is still up above us, it isn't falling....neither is the deer herd

2015 Tuesday after gun ended: 106,778

2016 Tuesday after gun ended: 104,706

This is a 2% decline year-over-year. If that holds, we will kill 121,200 deer this year. That's still a little more than 2014.

How did you come up with the 121,200?

Extrapolation would be my first guess.

2% reduction from last year's 123,664 killed. I rounded a bit.

Actually the gun season kill is up last year the number of deer killed during the firearms season was 74,911 (according to the chart in the 2015/16 harvest report). This season the rough data totals 77,381 deer killed during the firearms season for a difference of approximately 2,470 deer so far.At that pace we may well be UP 2% with the seasons left.

This is rough data it will likely change +/- when the final report comes out.

Time will Tell....