Deer Season Wrap

2010 WISCONSIN GUN DEER HUNT STATS

The Regular 9 day season is over. But if you’re a muzzle loader hunter you started last Monday and can hunt until Dec. 8. And then if you’re still not hunted out, you can participate in the Dec. 9 – 12 Antlerless hunt. Then it will finally be over. It seems like the Never-ending Story doesn’t it?

Early figures show a kill of just over 218,000 which is up 11% over last year.

There were 612,000 hunters who bought licenses for this past season. Of those, 11,000 were kids 10 and 11 who hunted under the Mentoring hunt. There were no gun accidents with any of the Mentored kids. Way to go!

This was also the first year since 1974 with no gun fatalities. The second year in history for that accomplishment, but there were 12 non-fatal accidents. Compare that to the days before Hunter Safety and there were 44 accidents per 100,000 hunters. At that rate there could have been over 2,600 accidents this past year…..what a change.

Congratulations to all who got their buck or doe and thanks to all who helped the Mentoring program and the Donate a Deer Program. You made a lot of folks happy with your generosity.

post by: Dan Bomkamp

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