Arkansas Deer Population:  An estimate of about 930,000 whitetail deer in 2023, 900,000 in 2022 and 875,00,000 in 2021.  Estimated at around 1 million in 2011 through 2018.  A record hunt of 216,835 deer taken in 2020 with a lot of hunters afield during the pandemic.  The population has been roughly stable since the year 2000.


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