Harvest trends
What changed this season
Year-over-year harvest movement by state and species, computed from official state harvest reports. Every figure here comes straight from the agencies' own numbers — we just keep the history and do the math.
Biggest increases
- Texas Pronghorn+125.0%
+125.0% year over year — 9 in 2022 vs 4 in 2021.
- Texas Wild pig+28.7%
+28.7% year over year — 103 in 2025 vs 80 in 2024.
- Georgia Alligator+25.9%
+25.9% year over year — 516 in 2025 vs 410 in 2024.
- Wyoming Mule deer+22.9%
+22.9% since 2023 — 16,688 in 2025 vs 13,575 in 2023.
- Utah Mule deer+22.2%
+22.2% year over year — 28,094 in 2025 vs 22,998 in 2024.
Biggest declines
- Texas Turkey-42.5%
-42.5% year over year — 23 in 2025 vs 40 in 2024.
- Wyoming Whitetail-26.3%
-26.3% since 2023 — 7,992 in 2025 vs 10,847 in 2023.
- Montana Elk-19.3%
-19.3% year over year — 22,335 in 2023 vs 27,671 in 2022.
- Texas Javelina-17.3%
-17.3% year over year — 43 in 2025 vs 52 in 2024.
- Missouri Whitetail-15.6%
-15.6% year over year — 275,656 in 2024 vs 326,448 in 2023.
Longest records
Where we hold the deepest history — the most useful for judging whether a season was really unusual.
Every tracked trend (41)
- Texas Pronghorn9 in 2022+125.0%
- Texas Turkey23 in 2025-42.5%
- Texas Wild pig103 in 2025+28.7%
- Wyoming Whitetail7,992 in 2025-26.3%
- Georgia Alligator516 in 2025+25.9%
- Wyoming Mule deer16,688 in 2025+22.9%
- Utah Mule deer28,094 in 2025+22.2%
- Montana Elk22,335 in 2023-19.3%
- Texas Javelina43 in 2025-17.3%
- Colorado Mule deer36,624 in 2025+16.0%
- Missouri Whitetail275,656 in 2024-15.6%
- Georgia Turkey12,627 in 2026+15.1%
- Wyoming Moose338 in 2025-15.1%
- Idaho Mountain goat40 in 2025+14.3%
- Texas Alligator139 in 2025+13.0%
- Wyoming Pronghorn18,763 in 2025-11.6%
- Kentucky Elk207 in 2024-11.5%
- Tennessee Whitetail156,236 in 2024+11.2%
- Texas Mule deer10 in 2025+11.1%
- Delaware Whitetail16,745 in 2025-11.0%
- Pennsylvania Whitetail476,100 in 2024+11.0%
- Idaho Pronghorn1,440 in 2025-10.9%
- Pennsylvania Turkey39,236 in 2024-10.5%
- Montana Pronghorn11,819 in 2023-10.1%
- Pennsylvania Elk118 in 2023-9.9%
- Pennsylvania Black bear2,631 in 2024-9.9%
- Kentucky Turkey30,661 in 2025-8.4%
- Colorado Elk32,120 in 2025+7.9%
- Wyoming Elk30,568 in 2025+7.8%
- Texas Whitetail1,121 in 2025-7.1%
- Kentucky Whitetail149,919 in 2024+6.3%
- Colorado Pronghorn7,302 in 2025-4.5%
- New York Black bear3,518 in 2025+4.4%
- Idaho Elk19,853 in 2025+3.2%
- Montana Whitetail43,803 in 2023-2.4%
- Montana Mule deer41,055 in 2023-2.4%
- New York Whitetail227,032 in 2025+1.7%
- Idaho Moose435 in 2025+1.4%
- Michigan Whitetail295,845 in 2025-1.2%
- Georgia Whitetail206,675 in 2025-0.6%
- Idaho Mule deer43,900 in 2025-0.5%
Totals are statewide sums of reported harvest from official state sources and may be revised by the agency. Reporting rules differ by state, so figures are comparable across years within a state, not between states.