The numbers for the opening weekend of the gun-deer season are down substantially from last year.
Hunters killed more than 90,000 deer over the first two days. That’s a 27 percent drop. Last year’s total was more than 123,000.
DNR Big Game Ecologist Kevin Wallenfang hopes the rest of the season will be better. He says hunters should have more opportunities to get a deer before all nine days are done.
Wallenfang says the schedule for this year’s season was the latest possible, and 2018’s was the earliest possible. When that’s happened before, there were similar declines in the opening weekend numbers.
