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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 25, 2017 8:55:45 GMT -5
Current reported deer harvest: 108,257 From Sept 15, 2017 to Monday, December 25, 2017 at 5:27 am CST That is 610 registered since yesterday That is 10,002 deer registered for the muzzleoader season so far. Last year we killed 7,990 in Muzzleloader season. Deer harvest numbers are updated as deer are checked in via CheckIN Game. All numbers are raw data that have not been verified by the Indiana DNR. www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/8367.htm
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 25, 2017 9:24:23 GMT -5
Jjas,
The number of participating counties is down BUT (IIRC) the ”special antlerless season” is longer. It goes to the first Sunday in January and this year it is - Special Antlerless: Dec. 26, 2017-Jan. 7, 2018 (where open).
Last season it closed out on January 1.
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Post by jjas on Dec 25, 2017 9:40:00 GMT -5
Jjas, The number of participating counties are down BUT (IIRC) the ”special antlerless season” is longer. It goes to the first Sunday in January and this year it is - Special Antlerless: Dec. 26, 2017-Jan. 7, 2018 (where open). Last season it closed out on January 1. I'd forgotten about that...Thanks for pointing it out. Merry Christmas to you and all on this forum.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 25, 2017 19:05:51 GMT -5
We've had 155 deer registered since this morning when I posted. Even though we still have the deer reduction zones going on I'd guess a huge amount of those 155 deer were Muzzleloader killed and just now being registered. That is the problem with trying to keep abreast of the count when hunters have 48 hours to check them in..
I'll try and keep count on the "special antlerless season" too..
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 26, 2017 6:47:44 GMT -5
Current reported deer harvest: 108,465 From Sept 15, 2017 to Tuesday, December 26, 2017 That is 208 registered since yesterday We had counted 10,002 deer registered for the muzzleoader season. My best guess is quite a number of these 208 were also muzzleloader kills just registered a day later.. Deer harvest numbers are updated as deer are checked in via CheckIN Game. All numbers are raw data that have not been verified by the Indiana DNR. Today starts the "special antlerless season" that goes until January 7, 2018.. www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/8367.htm
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 27, 2017 6:03:17 GMT -5
Current reported deer harvest: 108,815 From Sept 15, 2017 to Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 5:00 am CST That is 350 registered since yesterday. There was 4,202 deer taken in the 2016 "Special Antlerless Season". Deer harvest numbers are updated as deer are checked in via CheckIN Game. All numbers are raw data that have not been verified by the Indiana DNR. www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/8367.htm
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Post by span870 on Dec 27, 2017 6:22:44 GMT -5
So it wouldn't be too far a stretch of the imagination to say without the opening day weather, we'd have another record kill?
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 27, 2017 7:06:58 GMT -5
So it wouldn't be too far a stretch of the imagination to say without the opening day weather, we'd have another record kill? Personally I doubt we would have hit the record of 136,248 set in 2012 but I do believe that we would have been more on a par with the last 4 years of 120,000+.. The only place we are down so far from last year is the opening weekend.... The 2017 opening weekend extreme weather caused a drop of 20,763 from the 2016 opening weekend. That was an unprecedented whopper downturn.
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Post by tynimiller on Dec 27, 2017 8:21:06 GMT -5
I agree with a normal weather opener we break 120K again IMO.
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Post by jjas on Dec 27, 2017 8:55:47 GMT -5
I agree with a normal weather opener we break 120K again IMO. I posted this on Joe's site yesterday... I think that if not for the lousy weather on the opening weekend of firearms season, we might have have topped last season's total harvest, this season. What do I base that on? The rough data posted so far... Early archery was up by roughly 5,000 deer over last season. The last 14 days of the firearms season was up roughly 8,500 deer as compared to last season. The muzzleloader season was up by roughly 2,000 deer over last season. Will the late antlerless be up? I don't know, as there are fewer counties eligible this year, but it will be interesting to see what happens
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 27, 2017 11:30:35 GMT -5
So it wouldn't be too far a stretch of the imagination to say without the opening day weather, we'd have another record kill? I see data differently. Opening day missed harvest opportunities were simply made up over rest of firearm's season and muzzleloader season. I have seen ZERO data that suggest hunter's purchase a deer license and only hunt opening day??? Now there are definitely some fair weather hunter's out there but if you look at weather over the whole firearm's season it was actually very favorable. Same could be said for muzzleloader season as weather was very good. We will see how late antlerless season goes with these cold temp's. Be interesting to see harvest breakdown's to see where lower harvest's were. Antlered or antlerless.
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Post by tynimiller on Dec 27, 2017 12:07:35 GMT -5
So it wouldn't be too far a stretch of the imagination to say without the opening day weather, we'd have another record kill? I see data differently. Opening day missed harvest opportunities were simply made up over rest of firearm's season and muzzleloader season. I have seen ZERO data that suggest hunter's purchase a deer license and only hunt opening day??? Now there are definitely some fair weather hunter's out there but if you look at weather over the whole firearm's season it was actually very favorable. Same could be said for muzzleloader season as weather was very good. We will see how late antlerless season goes with these cold temp's. Be interesting to see harvest breakdown's to see where lower harvest's were. Antlered or antlerless. I cannot measure it or point to a study/survey...just off of dialogue with others that some most definitely did not hunt this year around me at least. That is an incredibly small sample size for sure...but I would bet there were easily a couple thousand deer that were saved minimum by the bad weather opening day. I do like you believe some of it is merely spread out after it though...
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Post by greghopper on Dec 27, 2017 12:11:48 GMT -5
Boonechaser, That's been my thought also.... How do we know the folks that didn't kill opening weekend just didn't kill at a later date!
We don't..... it's only speculation which is not right or wrong.
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 27, 2017 12:57:49 GMT -5
Agreed Greg. I guess my point is that with over 90 days of deer hunting days to hunt deer I find it hard to believe that a hunter would let one bad day prevent them from harvesting a deer if they truly wanted to.
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 27, 2017 13:37:46 GMT -5
A blue bird opening weekend of firearm is like no other day/weekend that anyone can come up with. The woods is flat full of deer hunters and the deer are moving either by choice or been spooked to move.
Undoubtedly some did kill after missing opening weekend or the kill would be way down. BUT - everyone who didn't hunt missed the historic golden opportunity...
I'll lay odds right now that the opening day weekend weather will be mentioned in the 2017-2018 Deer Harvest Summary.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 27, 2017 14:23:01 GMT -5
A blue bird opening weekend of firearm is like no other day/weekend that anyone can come up with. The woods is flat full of deer hunters and the deer are moving either by choice or been spooked to move. Undoubtedly some did kill after missing opening weekend or the kill would be way down. BUT - everyone who didn't hunt missed the historic golden opportunity... I'll lay odds right now that the opening day weekend weather will be mentioned in the 2017-2018 Deer Harvest Summary. I’m sure it will. They usually throw the weather in for the park hunt results as well if they are low.
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Post by greghopper on Dec 27, 2017 14:27:06 GMT -5
Isn't the opening day weather always mentioned in the yearly report? Good or Bad!
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Post by tynimiller on Dec 27, 2017 14:31:25 GMT -5
I do think the minds here can all agree the weather played a factor and saved some deer...none can pinpoint a figure or state to what degree that impact really was.
In the end it doesn't really matter as the overall still is shockingly higher than many expected it would be...
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Post by nfalls116 on Dec 27, 2017 14:37:46 GMT -5
Don’t forget we have 48hrs to check in our deer
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Post by boonechaser on Dec 27, 2017 16:07:31 GMT -5
I do think the minds here can all agree the weather played a factor and saved some deer...none can pinpoint a figure or state to what degree that impact really was. In the end it doesn't really matter as the overall still is shockingly higher than many expected it would be... IDK I think most people I talked to thought harvest would be in the 110,000-115,000 range going into season, which appears it will be at this point. Maybe some thought it would drop off more with poor opening weekend ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) Weather looks to be a factor again for remainder of season with COLD temp's forecasted. I admire guys that can set in these temp's, but I for one cannot..
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