GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The first weekend of the 2019 gun deer season is in the books, and hunters took home 90,286 deer this year.
Those numbers are down compared to last year, but the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’s Jeff Pritzl says that’s pretty normal for a late season.
“It’s probably not as good of a comparison to compare 2018 to 2019,” Pritzl told WTAQ. “We went through the shift from having the earliest potential opener to the latest potential opener.”
The late-season means less activity for the state’s deer population.
“We had relatively decent hunting conditions over the weekend,” said Pritzl. “The universal story was that deer didn’t seem to be very active during daylight hours this weekend.”
More than half a million hunters purchased licenses to enjoy opening weekend of Wisconsin’s 168th gun deer season.
