Brian WhipkeyGannett PAView CommentsAD0:19https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.448.1_en.html#goog_1835916819
Pennsylvaniahunters harvested more deer in the 2020-21 seasons than any time in the past 15years, including the most bucks since antler restrictions were implemented in 2002.
TheGame Commissionreported Friday that hunters Pennsylvania took an estimated 435,180 deer in the 2020-21 hunting seasons, which closed in January.
The 2020-21 estimated deer harvest topped the previous license year’s harvest of 389,431 by about 12%.
Since 1993, Pennsylvania hunters have harvested more than 400,000 deer in a license year 10 times. Twice during that period, deer harvests exceeded 500,000, first in 2000 and then again in 2002, when the state’s record overall deer harvest of 517,529 was set.
The statewide buck kill for the past season –174,780 – was the highest total for a buck
harvest during since antler-restriction era began in 2002.
The buck harvest also increased 7% over the previous license year’s…
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