The hunters harvested 5,794 deer – 4,884 white-tailed deer and 910 mule deer – for a success rate of 26%.

It’s still a little early for biologists to read the tea leaves and know how the 2024-25 winter survival will affect this fall’s hunts, so stayed tuned for more on that down the road.

Winter survival is typically the biggest single factor affecting mule deer herds, and the long-term average is about 60% of fawns surviving their first winter, but during hard winters that can be ...

Slightly more than half of deer hunters in North Dakota filled their tag in 2024, unchanged from the previous year.

Hunter success for antlered white-tailed deer in 2024 was 49% and 44% for antlerless whitetails. Mule deer buck success was 80% and 78% for antlerless mule deer. Hunters with any-antlered or any ...

The 56,000 or so people who hunt mule deer east of the Cascades each year, whether they carry a rifle or a bow, could see a ...