The total number of deer killed at the end of this year’s firearms season is down 31,000 compared to 2013, state figures show.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has revealed that hunters had registered 111,000 deer by the end of the third and final weekend of firearms hunting season.
Overall, 127,000 deer have been registered this year, which includes special hunts and archery season, and earlier antlerless and firearms seasons, down from 160,000 in 2013, according to the Duluth News Tribune.
This year’s harvest was expected to be lower, the News Tribune reports, because the DNR had put in place tighter restrictions on the number of deers allowed to be killed in a bid to boost the population across the state.
Numbers were depleted after a big harvest last year and an extreme winter.
Although the season is over for much of the state, the DNR says the late…
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