Can someone post the link? I can’t find it

I have never seen the term unantlered deer used by an agency before. Who yall got typing this stuff up?

And really how do u not know what property u are on , public , private, wma , i guess that is for the ones shot in the middle of the road

Oh hell, that ain’t good……we’re back to killing more bucks than does. Time to drop the limit to two.

Wonder how many unantlered are fawn bucks

Each year they say only about 1/3 actually reports.

We’re almost at 160k right now.

That means roughly 475k deer have been killed.

If our states deer number is really less than currently estimated then we’ve killed about half our deer population this year

I don't believe 2/3of the deer killed is not going through a processor. I might believe 1/3.

I do believe less may be killed because of the bs there is when one is killed

I put it at about 10% that doesn’t go to a processor. The majority of hunters are too lazy to process their own including me.

The DNR sees high kill numbers as proof that we have too many deer. It justifies the seasons and bag limits.

None of these things matter just as long as folks do it the same way every year. It doesn’t matter if 10% don’t report as long as that number holds fairly constant from year to year. The GC numbers are not meant to show exact totals but rather just to show “trends”……It is meant to tell us whether or not the kill numbers are going up, down, or staying the same over time…….

So I am too lazy to find the answer and want to hear from people that have followed this longer. Does this indicate more or less deer were harvested this season as opposed to last. I was actually thinking about this in the shower. I was wondering if last season thinned them out a little too much. I was honestly just thinking of external excuses to blame my failure on this season. But still...which way is this trending?

I would say that 1/4 is about accurate on reporting I know several didn't even think about it wasn't going to the processor anyway. These are not outlaws.

A lot of people don't take their deer to the processor because all they get back is some nasty crap that looks like they processed under a heat lamp. Hotdog meat is better.

I don't think the buck/doe numbers matter antler restrictions are the only thing that will prevent people from blasting small bucks. You are never going to get everyone on the same page on any of this. The answer is I've got enough deer there appears to be near one behind every bush. I haven't seen a starving deer yet either. I wish everyone saw about 30 every time they went.