Last year hunters in the gun season registered 180,527 deer, including 86,562 bucks and 93,965 antlerless. The season was among the safest on record, with three non-fatal shooting incidents.

While deer season isn’t over yet, with a week remaining for muzzleloader and expanded archery hunters, it is a good time to look back on the 2024 season and look forward to 2025.

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ALTHOUGH the peak of the rut is in the rearview, late-season deer hunting in New Hampshire can be exceptional, especially if Mother Nature can provide a few inches of snow.

EAU CLAIRE — The deer harvest during the nine-day gun hunt climbed 5.2% this year, after being slightly behind pace for the first two days of the hunt.