With so much talk of how the deer herd would be negatively impacted this season with hprs, I went back and looked @ the firearms harvest totals from 2011/2015 and compared that with the rough data available from this past season.

The average number of deer harvested during that time was 73,000 per firearms season.

The average number of antlered deer harvested during that time was was 32,000 per firearms season.

The average number of antlerless deer harvested during that time was 41,000 per firearms season.

For the 2016 firearms season, the rough figure for these 16 days was approximately 75,000 deer. But...this figure includes deer taken by bow, crossbow, shotgun, handgun, rifle, and muzzleloader during those 16 days and as such, that figure is normally adjusted down to reflect the bow and crossbow kills by a couple of thousand deer.

If these figures hold when the harvest report is published, that would put this years firearms season harvest total right around the previous 5 year average.