Mature buck harvest on the rise
By Dan Armitage, host of Buckeye Sportsman, Ohio’s longest running outdoor radio show I hosted Kip Adams of the National Deer Association on Buckeye Sportsman earlier this month, and the organization’s Chief Conservation Officer had some interesting information to share. According to the organization’s 2021 Deer Report, hunters in the United States took more adult and mature bucks in the 2019-20 hunting season than ever reported, based on a near-record buck harvest of 2.9 million and a record 39% of those bucks estimated to be 3.5 years or older. “Hunters now shoot far more bucks t...
Source: ocj.com
