Tom Tatum Outdoors: Game Commission Releases Deer Harvest Estimates

Tom Tatum Outdoors: Game Commission Releases Deer Harvest Estimates

By Tom Tatum According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) the fortunes of the state’s deer hunters considerably improved this past season to the tune of about 11% more deer harvested in the 2024-25 hunting seasons than they did the year before. That’s according to recently released PGC deer harvest estimates. The statewide 2024-25 harvest is estimated at 476,880 deer, 175,280 of them antlered deer and 301,600 antlerless. By comparison, th…

Tom Tatum Outdoors: Game commission releases deer harvest estimates

The fortunes of the state’s deer hunters considerably improved this past season to the tune of about 11% more deer harvested in the 2024-25 hunting seasons than they did the year before, according to recently released Pennsylvania Game Commission deer harvest estimates. The statewide 2024-25 harvest is estimated at 476,880 deer, 175,280 of them antlered deer and 301,600 antlerless. By comparison, the statewide 2023-24 harvest was estimated at 43…

Minnesota Deer Population continuing to recover after another mild winter – R & J Broadcasting Inc.

Winter weather is often a major indicator of how the deer population will look like for the next year, and if you’re one of the over 200,000 deer hunters in Minnesota we’ve got some good news for you. Minnesota DNR Wildlife Supervisor Rob Baden tells us what this past winter indicates for deer populations in 2025, and what it could mean for the 2025 hunting seasons.  Yearling deer and other animals are going to be abundant on the Minnesota lands…