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Kentucky Deer Harvest

The following table contains harvest totals for whitetail deer hunting in Kentucky. Kentucky currently uses Telecheck for hunters to report big game harvests, call 800.245.4263 to report a kill.

Kentucky utilized physical, mandatory, deer check-in starting in the 1976-77 deer season. Prior to that a random mail survey was used to estimate harvest numbers. During the 1998 season Kentucky switched to a combination of TeleCheck and physical checking, with about 20% of harvest reported via SelfCheck that year. The 1999 deer season marked the first year with Telecheck as the only option for reporting a big game harvest.

 
Kentucky
Year Does Bucks Totals
1976 3,431
1977 5,717
1978 5,925
1979 7,131
1980 9,703
1981 14,929
1982 17,970
1983 18,732
1984 23,012
1985 30,075
1986 39,520
1987 60,372
1988 64,260
1989 70,149
1990 73,920
1991 92,973
1992 81,938
1993 69,524
1994 78,654
1995 82,140
1996 82,155
1997 32,772 55,170 87,939
1998*      103,907
1999  45,793  49,436  95,229
2000  53,875  52,388 106,263
2001 50,043 53,295 103,338
2002 56,643 58,439 115,682
2003 57,405 59,135 116,540
2004 64,412 60,340 124,752
2005 58,442 54,020 112,462
2006 58,988 63,245 122,233


 
 

 

 


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