Kentucky hunters harvest record amount of deer during modern gun season

Monday, December 9, 2019 at 6:29 AM

By Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife

If current trends hold, the 2019-2020 deer season could be the second-highest harvest total ever. The current record is 155,730 deer taken by hunters in the 2015-2016 season.

 Kentucky deer hunters are wrapping up a record-breaking modern gun season. 

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife says hunters harvested just over 107-thousand deer during the 16-day season, beating last season's record by about two hundred. 

 

Last year Kentucky hunters harvested 106,804 deer during the modern gun season, which was a record until this season.

Hunters harvested 35,143 deer on opening weekend of the modern gun season, 19,234 on the second weekend and 11,576 on the third weekend.

December muzzleloader season that opens Dec. 14 and closes Dec. 22 and if current trends hold, the 2019-2020 deer season could be the second-highest harvest total ever. The current record is 155,730 deer taken by hunters in the 2015-2016 season.

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