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Georgia Deer Population and Management Archive

Estimated Annual Deer Kill

1950:      6,000

1968:    40,000

2000:  402,000

2001:  446,000

2002:  410,000

2003:  417,285

2004:  348,760

2005:  318,808

2006:  319,377

2007:  350,715

2008:  398,917

2009:  398,668

2010:  464,003

2011:  411,481

2012:  385,410

2013:  453,952

2014:  412,068

2015:  362,849

2016*:  316,463

*Reporting

changed, see below

2017:  381,629

2018:  278,403

2019:  262,042

2020: 270,272

2021: 257,441

2022:   271,207

2023:  297,877


Deer Harvest Summaries


Harvest from Mandatory

Reporting

2016 258,036

2017 292,480

2018 280,175

2019 262,514

2020 270,315

2021 257,484

2022 269,932


2015-24 Deer Management Plan


Georgia Biological Deer Database


About 1 million deer in 2012-2013 and 318,113 registered hunters