BUCK KILL DOWN 31% STATEWIDE - Calhoun Kill Down Almost 50%

(12/10/2010)
Preliminary data collected from game checking stations across the state indicate deer hunters in West Virginia harvested 43,226 bucks during the two-week buck firearms season, which ran from Nov. 22 through Dec. 4, according to Frank Jezioro, Director of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR).

The 2010 buck harvest was 31 percent less than the 2009 harvest of 62,986.

The Calhoun buck kill was 1124 in 2009, the 2010 kill was 565.

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