Current Arkansas deer harvest now available online

LITTLE ROCK — Deer hunters interested in studying the state’s deer harvest can now get real-time data on the season. Hunters can check the deer harvest numbers at dev.ark.org/ gamecheck/reports.php.

The information is available as a result of the agency’s use of the online and telephone checking system for deer. In addition to ease of use, faster data processing and real-time data reporting, the new process has enabled the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to analyze the deer harvest by date.

According to AGFC Deer Program Coordinator Cory Gray, the information will allow the agency to chart trends during the season.

“It also will provide valuable details about the effects of season structure on harvest,” Gray said.

Gray said the information hunters are providing is invaluable to the agency.

“It is critical that hunters provide us accurate data and give us all of the information requested,” he said.

To provide the information over a cellphone, hunters must call from an area where a cellphone signal is strongest.

“Hunters have 24 hours to check their game, so we’re asking people using a cellphone to go to a location with a signal stronger than one bar. Hunters need a good signal so their information comes through as strong as possible on the system,” Gray said. “It’s not going to work if you don’t have the signal strength.”

Currently, checking deer can be done in one of three ways: call (866) 305-0808, go online at www.agfc.com or use available iPhone and Android AGFC applications.

When hunters are finished checking their game, they will be given a four-digit check number that must be recorded on the license. So they need to have a pen ready.