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Delaware’s Deer Harvest Down Slightly For 2009-10
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Deer Hunting News, Hunting Reports | No Comments »
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 ... Read more..