Average Deer Harvest Number Annually

[Crittergetter]

I haven't killed a deer in 2 years. So far I've sat over 60 hours this year and only seen one doe. I've done my home work and scouted thousands of acres. I've picked out 5 locations for this year and set up for various winds and only hunt accordingly. Oak bottoms, funnels, and pinch points.  Just really really hard to kill a deer when 99 percent of pics are all at night and you get people poaching on the wmas with rifles ( this happened last Tuesday)  and joy riding around on  Atv's ( last Sunday) .
Not making excuses but dang it sure makes it tough!!!

[Crittergetter]

I drove my boat in last Sunday about 2 miles. As far as I could go. Then walked about another 1.5 miles to a pinch point I scouted last spring. Got set up and 30 min later a whole family came rolling by following the boundary fence. (About a half mile off the atv trail which if for handicapped individuals only) . About and hour later they came right back by. I called the local game warden but to my understanding he never came out. But you bet you butt if I drove an atv in there to hunt they would be waiting for me at my truck when I left!!!

[Vesty]

That is extremely discouraging. We know how difficult hunting deer with traditional equipment is under the best circumstances. It was for reasons like this that I purchased my own property(30acres) ten years ago. It was a sacrifice and took a lot of planning but I'm so glad I did it. Not to mention the tremendous investment it has turned out to be. Hang in there my friend and make the most of your circumstances.

[twitchstick]

I'm about one deer per every three years. Only one deer tag a year here, if you draw! Now with that said if I wasn't picky I could kill every year. In the last two years I have let around 25 differnt bucks walk and held out for a longer season(tag soup).

[Vesty]

That's what I call willpower!!!

Mine is a little over two right now, but the average is going down since we don't have doe tags here any longer.

[B-DOG]

I usually get 1-2 deer a year with the longbow.

[TSP]

Some states have huge deer populations/good access while others not so much.  Unless you happen to own your hunting property or have friends that do, around here 'tag soup' is the norm for the average bow or gun hunter.  I'd guess the average success rate would be in the area of one deer per hunter per every 4 years or so regardless of the weapon used.  The quality of deer hunting (both sightings and harvests) is comparatively crappy.  But at least we have trees, lol.