Deer harvest data 2009-2023

[Sam Menard]

Here’s a link to deer harvest data from 2009 - 2023. The data shows number of hunters, buck harvest, antlerless harvest, total harvest for each WMU by year. It’s good info if you like to follow trends over time.

https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/whit...7-c6bd176106c9

[LowbanksArcher]

I always find these interesting. Looks like 2023 was the lowest number of active hunters in my home WMU in the past 15 years. Sounds about right

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

Cool Data!
In WMU 92 overall harvest success is around 50%. Seems reasonable.

[werner.reiche]

55B with an average success rate of 25%. That seems really, really low. Then again 59 is only 30%. I would have guessed both these units to be over 50%.

[Roe+]

Interesting, I hunt in both WMU 60 & 61, there are about half the hunters in 61 that there are in 60. In recent years 60 gives out 4000 antlerless tags and I think 61 is down to around 1200. There deer population has definitely been dropping off in 61 compared to when I started hunting there in 2004.

[Gilroy]

Interesting, I hunt in both WMU 60 & 61, there are about half the hunters in 61 that there are in 60. In recent years 60 gives out 4000 antlerless tags and I think 61 is down to around 1200. There deer population has definitely been dropping off in 61 compared to when I started hunting there in 2004.

My first hunt camp was on Bannockburn Road I bought in 1989 and in WMU 61, if I can remember properly a hunter had a 90% chance of drawing a DOE tag and also a very good chance of getting a Moose Tag. Once we got into the 2000,s the numbers for doe tags dropped of dramatically and went down much more than WMU 60.

In relation to Moose my current place is just east of the CROWE RIVER SWAMP area and that extends north right past HWY 620, this is probably a 5000 acre corridor that then extends 60 klms as the Crow Flies to the bottom of Algonquin Park. I see Moose in my area pretty often as they use that corridor and I see no problems with the population in that north west section of WMU 60.

The drop in the deer population in 61 would IMHO correspond to the increase is predators especially bush wolves and bears. Most of the old timers that trapped wolves/coyotes in my area have either retired, died or can't make a buck trapping right now.

[Species8472]

55B with an average success rate of 25%. That seems really, really low. Then again 59 is only 30%. I would have guessed both these units to be over 50%.

My anecdotal guess is that there are a decent number of people that buy licenses that do not hunt very hard or maybe don't even get out and they end up bringing the average down. For those that actually put in decent time and effort scouting and hunting i suspect the average is much higher. I know in my circle of licensed hunters this is true. My kids are a good example of this. They all buy licenses on the off chance that if they have some time when they are home for the holidays they will get out with the bow for a couple of sits. Much more often than not they don't get out and the tags go unfilled and bring down the success rate.

[Roe+]

My first hunt camp was on Bannockburn Road I bought in 1989 and in WMU 61, if I can remember properly a hunter had a 90% chance of drawing a DOE tag and also a very good chance of getting a Moose Tag. Once we got into the 2000,s the numbers for doe tags dropped of dramatically and went down much more than WMU 60.

In relation to Moose my current place is just east of the CROWE RIVER SWAMP area and that extends north right past HWY 620, this is probably a 5000 acre corridor that then extends 60 klms as the Crow Flies to the bottom of Algonquin Park. I see Moose in my area pretty often as they use that corridor and I see no problems with the population in that north west section of WMU 60.

The drop in the deer population in 61 would IMHO correspond to the increase is predators especially bush wolves and bears. Most of the old timers that trapped wolves/coyotes in my area have either retired, died or can't make a buck trapping right now.

We’re having issues with wolves/coyotes in our camp near McArthurs Mills

[Gilroy]

We’re having issues with wolves/coyotes in our camp near McArthurs Mills

I was up there at "tagged out " getting my deer processed and Ben did a great job, he took in 220 deer last fall but he gets deer from all over the place.

[Sam Menard]

Here’s some stats that illustrate how things have changed in WMU 10:
2008: hunters = 2699, harvest = 2679 (99% success rate with add. tags)

2023: hunters = 1610, harvest = 704
(44% success rate, no add. tags)