GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Opening weekend for the 9 day gun deer season has wrapped up, and the DNR is looking at the numbers.
While the numbers are an interest to many, they are not enough for DNR officials to get worried or excited about.
“About half of the gun season harvest will have happened on the opening weekend.
Jeff Pritzl, District Wildlife Biologist says the conditions were right for a successful weekend, and it is the first step of telling the 9-day gun season story.
“Did the opening weekend of the gun season kind of meet expectation?
He says the single biggest input will be if the deer harvest was on track with what was predicted and says they should be similar or better than last year due to it being a good weekend for hunting.
“Weather conditions this opening weekend was probably some of the best that we can remember in some time.”
Without looking at the numbers, Pritzl says they remain optimistic.
“I think we can expect that things will at least be as good as last year if not better. Just an observation, we saw more deer in vehicles and hanging at home and at camp and it just seems like people had a good weekend.”
The DNR will be compiling the harvest numbers that had to be in by 5:00 Monday night.
