MADISON, WI (WTAQ) — This year’s gun deer season in Wisconsin was a good one for hunters as the harvest came in just above average.
Hunters registered over 203,295 deer during the 2022 gun deer season, including 98,397 antlered and 104,898 antlerless deer. That’s up 14.4% over last year.
“Overall, the hunting conditions were good,” said Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Deer Specialist Jeff Pritzl. “Certainly the snow on the ground on opening weekend helped, and it persisted throughout the week, which helped as well.”
The season closed on Sunday.
In total 795,072 licenses were sold, down 1.6% from the same time last year.
“We had all 50 states represented, as well as 21 foreign countries,” said DNR Wildlife Management Bureau Director Eric Lobner.
Licenses were sold to hunters from as far as New Zealand, South Africa, and Central Africa’s Chad.
There were eight hunting incidents reported to the DNR, with one of them being fatal.
Year-over-year comparisons are available here.
