MINNESOTA — Hunters harvested 186,203 deer during the 2025 hunting season, which is a statewide 9% increase from the 2024 hunting season, according to preliminary figures from the Minnesota Department ...

More than 180,000 deer were taken by Minnesota hunters during the 2025 hunting season, a 9% increase over last season.

New numbers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources show hunters bagged more deer in 2025 than last year. Hunters reportedly harvested 186,203 deer in 2025, a 9% increase from the 2024 ...

Favorable weather and a large deer population helped Minnesota hunters bag 9% more whitetails last season than they did in 2024, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The agency’s state ...

Hunters across Minnesota harvested more than 186,000 deer during the 2025 season, marking a 9% increase from the previous ...

We can’t have deer managers encouraging hunters to take more antlerless deer and then have a rule on the books that hinders ...

Minnesota’s chronic wasting disease cases rose about 26% this hunting season, driven by an endemic southeast hotspot, but ...

CO Troy Fondie (Orr) reports it was hard to locate anyone hunting during the last week of the deer season, and there were multiple comments about the lack of deer. Some lakes have frozen over while ...

It was a wintry weekend when Erik Hildebrand scouted for deer in one of Minnesota’s hunting zones. He was there for a late-season deer hunt, scheduled for Dec. 19-21, which was to help control the ...

Hunters harvested 186,203 deer during the 2025 hunting season, which is a statewide 9 percent increase from the 2024 hunting season, according to preliminary figures from the Minnesota Department of ...