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HARRISBURG –Hunters took 378,592 deer during Pennsylvania’s 1999-2000 hunting seasons, according to figures released by the Pennsylvania Game Commission today. Last year, hunters harvested 377,489 deer.
This year’s antlered (buck) harvest was 194,368, compared to 181,449 during the 1998-99 deer hunting seasons. This year’s antlerless (doe) harvest was 184,224, compared to last year’s 196,040.
Of the total number of deer harvested this year, bowhunters harvested 72,071 deer (37,709 antlered and 34,362 antlerless), compared to 59,715 (32,334 antlered and 27,381 antlerless) last year. Flintlock hunters also harvested 13,949 deer (967 antlered and 12,982 antlerless) of this year’s total harvest, compared to 9,244 (767 antlered and 8,477 antlerless) last year.
( To view a series of three maps detailing the county-by-county results of the 1999 deer hunting seasons click here. For comparison, to view three maps detailing the county-by-county results from the 1998 deer hunting seasons click here. Statewide deer harvests figures from 1915 through 1999 are available by clicking here.)
Uploaded: 3/19/2000
Uploaded: 3/19/2000