Georgia’s 2019-2020 deer season is now underway after an opening weekend that saw continued above average temperatures for this time of year. I’ve seen reports of a few respectable bucks taken that I have been sharing on our Facebook page, as well as a fair number of antlerless deer. I took a look at Georgia DNR’s game check report this evening and wanted to share those results with you. There are two tables in this report. The first is deer harvest on Georgia’s public lands, organized by WMA. The second is the overall deer harvest by county. Keep in mind that hunters have 72 hours to report their harvest, so there may be some deer killed over the weekend that have not yet been recorded. And, as we all know, there were plenty of deer killed over the weekend that will never be reported, but that’s a whole other story. I can only report what is legally checked.
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Hear us discuss these results on Episode 11 of the Georgia Afield Hunting Podcast.
Public Land Harvest by WMA
| WMA | Female | Less than 4 points on each side | 4 points or more on one side | Button Buck (Antlerless Male) | Total Harvest Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Totals: | 70 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 96 |
| Alapaha River WMA | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Allatoona WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Altamaha WMA Buffalo Swamp, Lewis, Island, McGowan Lake Tracts | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bartram Forest WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Berry College WMA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| BF Grant WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Broad River WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bullard Creek WMA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Bullard Creek WMA Ocmulgee Tract | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Camp Creek VPA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Chattahoochee Fall Line WMA - Fort Perry | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Chattahoochee National Forest outside WMA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Clybel WMA (Charlie Elliott) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Coosawattee WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Corps of Engineers, Clark's Hill Lake outside WMA (Lake Thurmond, Corps of Engineers) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Corps of Engineers, Lake Allatoona Outside WMA | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Corps of Engineers, Lake Russell outside WMA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Crockford-Pigeon Mountain WMA (Pigeon Mountain WMA) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Dawson Forest WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dilane WMA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Dixie Creek, West Point WMA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dixon Memorial WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Flat Tub WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Flint River WMA | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Fort Gordon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Fort Stewart | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grand Bay WMA | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Horse Creek WMA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Hunter Army Airfield | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Joe Kurz WMA | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| John's Mountain WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Keg Creek WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lake Hartwell, Corps of Engineers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lake Russell WMA | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Lanahassee Creek WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Little Satilla WMA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| McGraw Ford WMA | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Ocmulgee WMA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Oconee National Forest outside WMA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Paulding Forest WMA | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Rich Mountain WMA - Cartecay Tract | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Rocky Mountain PFA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Sandhills WMA - East | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sheffield WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Silver Lake WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Soap Creek WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Standing Boy Creek WMA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Townsend WMA North Tract, South Tract, and Pine Island Tract | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| West Point WMA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Overall Harvest by County
| County | Female | Button Buck (Antlerless Male) | 4 points or more on one side | Less than 4 points on each side | Total Harvest Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Totals: | 1196 | 36 | 454 | 178 | 1864 |
| Appling | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Atkinson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Bacon | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Baker | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Baldwin | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Banks | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| Barrow | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| Bartow | 25 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 31 |
| Ben Hill | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Berrien | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bibb | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bleckley | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Brantley | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Brooks | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Bryan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Bulloch | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Burke | 20 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 25 |
| Butts | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
| Calhoun | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Camden | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Candler | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Carroll | 14 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 23 |
| Catoosa | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Charlton | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Chattahoochee | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Chattooga | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Cherokee | 21 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 35 |
| Clarke | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| Clay | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Clayton | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Clinch | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Cobb | 7 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 19 |
| Coffee | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Colquitt | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Columbia | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 18 |
| Cook | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Coweta | 19 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 31 |
| Crawford | 14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| Crisp | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Dade | 7 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| Dawson | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| Decatur | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| DeKalb | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| Dodge | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Dooly | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Dougherty | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Douglas | 7 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 13 |
| Early | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| Echols | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Effingham | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Elbert | 20 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 27 |
| Emanuel | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Evans | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Fannin | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Fayette | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| Floyd | 18 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 28 |
| Forsyth | 23 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 40 |
| Franklin | 8 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
| Fulton | 14 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 39 |
| Gilmer | 12 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 20 |
| Glascock | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Glynn | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Gordon | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| Grady | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Greene | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| Gwinnett | 12 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 24 |
| Habersham | 5 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| Hall | 38 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 63 |
| Hancock | 43 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 52 |
| Haralson | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 |
| Harris | 16 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 25 |
| Hart | 7 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| Heard | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Henry | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| Houston | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Irwin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Jackson | 12 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 30 |
| Jasper | 22 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 35 |
| Jeff Davis | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Jefferson | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Jenkins | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Johnson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jones | 8 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| Lamar | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Laurens | 14 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 25 |
| Lee | 11 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 17 |
| Liberty | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Lincoln | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Long | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Lowndes | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Lumpkin | 16 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 25 |
| Macon | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Madison | 21 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 25 |
| Marion | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| McDuffie | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| McIntosh | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Meriwether | 23 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 32 |
| Miller | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mitchell | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Monroe | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Montgomery | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Morgan | 17 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 27 |
| Murray | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Muscogee | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Newton | 15 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 27 |
| Oconee | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Oglethorpe | 24 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 29 |
| Paulding | 9 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 17 |
| Peach | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Pickens | 8 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 17 |
| Pierce | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Pike | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| Polk | 17 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 25 |
| Pulaski | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Putnam | 19 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 22 |
| Quitman | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Rabun | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Randolph | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| Richmond | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rockdale | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| Schley | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Screven | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Spalding | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Stephens | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Stewart | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Sumter | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| Talbot | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 16 |
| Taliaferro | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| Tattnall | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Taylor | 11 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
| Terrell | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| Thomas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tift | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Toombs | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Towns | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Treutlen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Troup | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| Turner | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Twiggs | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Union | 20 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 32 |
| Upson | 18 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 29 |
| Walker | 10 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
| Walton | 19 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 36 |
| Ware | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Warren | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Washington | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 16 |
| Wayne | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Webster | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Wheeler | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| White | 7 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| Whitfield | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| Wilcox | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Wilkes | 21 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 30 |
| Wilkinson | 8 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
| Worth | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |