Pa. deer harvest gets slight bump over 2009-10

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission says this year’s deer harvest was a little more bountiful than the last.

Hunters took an estimated 316,240 deer during the 2010-11 deer seasons, up 2 percent from a little less than 309,000 a year earlier. Figures released Tuesday indicate hunters harvested about 14,000 more antlered deer but 7,000 fewer antlerless deer in 2010-11.

Game commission Director Carl Roe says the antlered deer harvest is slightly above average since 2005.

Roe says the commission had shortened the antlerless deer seasons this year, so a smaller harvest was expected.

Nearly 50,000 hunters used the new online reporting tool that’s used by the commission to estimate the harvest.