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Hunters registered 329,103 deer for the 2009 deer hunting seasons. This includes a total antlerless harvest of 191,715 and antlered (buck) harvest of 134,156. The grand total includes 3,232 deer recorded as unknown.

The closely watched total buck harvest for all archery and gun seasons was down 3 percent compared to 2008.

The 2009 archery buck harvest was up 19 percent over 2008 at 41,402 making it the fourth best archery buck harvest in history. Archers accounted for 31 percent of the total buck harvest in 2009. This was up from the 2008 archery buck harvest which accounted for 25 percent of the total buck kill. Gun buck harvest declined by 11 percent last year from 103,845 in 2008 to 92,754, the 29th highest gun buck total on record.
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Hunters harvested approximately 222,800 deer in the 2009 season, virtually the same number as were harvested statewide the previous season, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis announced today. The annual deer hunting report also showed that nearly 16,000 14- and 15-year-olds signed up for the “Junior Big-Game License”.
Deer Harvest

The 2009 deer take included more than 120,700 antlerless deer (adult females and fawns) and just over 102,000 adult bucks. Antlerless takes grew by 3 percent from 2008 (117,232), while buck takes dropped 3.5 percent from 2008 (105,747). Totals for bow and muzzleloader seasons were on par with the past few years.
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Wildlife biologists with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) have compiled preliminary figures for deer, turkey, and bear harvests for the 2009-10 fall/winter hunting seasons. The white-tailed deer and wild turkey harvests were largely consistent with last year’s harvest. As anticipated, the black bear harvest was up, but only slightly. These harvest figures indicate that good hunting is available across the Commonwealth.

Black Bear

During the 2009-10 bear season a total of 2,304 black bears were harvested using archery, muzzleloader, and firearms. This represented an increase of 4.5% over last year’s harvest of 2,204 bears.
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Delaware hunters harvested 12,400 deer during the 2009-10 season, an 11 percent drop from the previous season that biologists attributed to poor hunting weather during the two segments of the state’s white-tail deer season that are traditionally the most productive and heavily hunted.

The total was 1,526 fewer deer than were taken in Delaware last year, with declining numbers readily apparent during the October muzzleloader and November shotgun seasons when two nor’easter storms struck the state, keeping hunters out of the woods and deer from moving around in them.

“I heard from many hunters who not only didn’t hunt during the actual storm events, but also couldn’t get into their hunting areas after the storms had passed because the areas were still flooded,” said Joe Rogerson, Deer and Furbearer Biologist with the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife.
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