gun kill numbers

what were the numbers for this weekend? i hunt some very good land in wild rose and we havent seen crap for numbers of deer all year for bow and gun.......i think the population is way low.......lets only shoot mature bucks!

Hoff how many do you need?

numbers are low on northern public land and on highly pressured lands. otherwise they are good. any public land with wolves in the area will be hurting because things are out of balance. I had a good year, 3 so far. going out in a few to try for some more meat!

I believe the numbers because we have quite a discrepancy in deer numbers between public and private, and north to south. One thing I wish they would do is modify the questions on the registration stub. Asking how many deer I saw the day I shot one and how many hours I hunted that day doesn't paint an accurate picture. I said I saw one deer and hunted one hour which was true for that day. It didn't ask what I saw or hunted prior. If it did I would have said 30 hours and saw 6 deer (two probably repeats so really 4), not nearly as good sounding.

The DNR doesn't publish a kill number based on the number of deer they're told were observed by hunters. As hunters we jumped up and down a number of years ago to have the deer counted on the landscape because we didn't believe the DNR. Then a few years ago we did the same this but this time we demanded a third party do the counting and some still don't believe the numbers. What will make us happy? This is deer hunting not deer shooting as it was 15 years ago. If there are no deer where you hunt, scout a new area or scout period. My guess is you'll find more deer than you expect. I didn't see many deer during the gun hunt but they were there; I saw them all summer and fall. I'm seeing them now after the gun season too but I'm not sure where they were. Keep looking, you'll find them. Steve

Same thing happened in our group. We went a couple of days with only seeing a few and some guys were complaining about the lack of deer in the area. Then we drove a nasty evergreen swamp and chased out over 40 from only 60 acres. The deer kill numbers are based on actual tags and registration- they are real.

I do see how the number could be high....I hunted about 10 miles from a buddies land. Only saw 10 deer in 5 days during regular season. During the antlerless season he invites me out and we kick up 60 plus deer in a drive. Shot 9 of them total for group (I shot 1). In just the 3 days they killed 16 antlerless. This seems like a lot but these guys are strict QDM and the deer are just stacked. Would never believe it unless I saw it for my self. Needless to say this was a good lesson. Some places are overloaded while others have few.

Having talked to alot of people since the end of gun deer season, I just can't see how the deer kill was up 20% in the county i hunt in. I have come to the conclusion that either the DNR is making up numbers or people are lieing about how many deer they kill. I think it is more of the second. They used to brag about how many deer they shot, but now they have wisened up and keep their mouth shut.

congrats on the bucks on public land in unit 53. that is no easy task. and totally agree on the numbers being way down that last several years. so few shots compared to the past that you wouldn't even know its even deer season if you didn't know.

Northern part of unit 53 numbers have been down for years on the large tracts of public land. 9 hunters in the group & 5 deer seen & 2 mature bucks taken. That was through the 9 day gun & part of the muzzleloader.

saw about 1/4 this year compared to last year and a lot less shooting in the poy sippi area.

We saw plenty and shot plenty. We all assume there are no deer in the area if none are seen!

No comment on how many we shot but out of our group of 16 people, we saw over 50 deers total. Mostly does.