Deer Harvest Archives

Art Lander’s Outdoors: A look back at Kentucky’s 2024 white-tailed deer season, harvest numbers

February 7, 2025February 6, 20250

Despite bouts of extreme weather the harvest during Kentucky’s 2024 white-tailed deer season reached a five year high, and was…

January 30, 2025January 28, 20250

Hunters collectively recorded a near record harvest of deer during Kentucky’s just concluded 2024-25 season. Hunters took 149,868 deer –…

January 19, 2024January 19, 20240

The old saying “what goes up must come down” is certainly applicable to Kentucky’s white-tailed deer season harvest. During the…

January 27, 2023January 25, 20230

Kentucky’s 2022 white-tailed deer season lived up to expectations with a harvest increase. “The 2022 deer season harvest was the…

January 21, 2022January 20, 20220

Unseasonably warm and windy conditions during the first week of modern gun season, a deadly tornado outbreak on opening day…

February 12, 2021February 11, 20210

The coronavirus pandemic had little if any impact on Kentucky’s 2020-2021 white-tailed deer season as hunters checked in 141,630 deer,…

October 30, 2020October 29, 20200

Kentucky’s 2020-21 white-tailed deer season got off to a fast start as the main event, our statewide 16-day modern gun…

January 24, 2020January 21, 20200

Kentucky’s 2019-20 hunting season for white-tailed deer ended Monday and hunters posted another big harvest, inching closer to the all-time…

November 2, 2018November 1, 20180

The lyrics are from a Christmas song made famous by Andy Williams in 1963. But, for Kentucky deer hunters, November…